Category: National News

Through a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency of International Development has created a $10 million banking fund to jumpstart financial services in mobile banking in Haiti. “Mobile Money” will provide the delivery of cash assistance to Haitians devastated by the earthquake and help lift them out of extreme […]

At first glance, you wouldn’t think much has changed in Haiti since an unprecedented tremor ravaged Port-au-Prince five months ago. “There are piles of rubble everywhere and some parts of Port-au-Prince look like Armageddon,” said American Red Cross spokeswoman Julie Sell with a heavy sigh. She added, “People who work in the humanitarian and disaster […]

Haiti is a paradox; a place where dueling forces of life and death exist at an impasse – a reality made even starker by the 7.0-magitude earthquake that shook the nation’s core and destroyed its capital. AFRO freelance photographer J.D. Howard said he felt compelled to capture the Caribbean nation’s story on camera. “I wanted […]

This time of year, most high school seniors are either on vacation or finalizing plans to attend a college in the fall. But due to a policy issue, Brittany Hemphill of Benjamin E. Mays High School in Atlanta, Ga., is still waiting for her high school diploma. Hemphill, an honors student, was sent a notification […]

Controversy has arisen in South Carolina as Alvin M. Greene, an unemployed veteran facing felony charges, has won the state’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Greene’s win was improbable, as he’s never given a campaign speech, doesn’t have a Web site, has no campaign signs and only has $114 in his campaign bank account. Yet, […]

The sheriff of Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish and federal officials have admitted to conducting an unlawful probe for illegal aliens working at clean-up stations for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Sheriff Jack Stephens initially denied any involvement and federal authorities said they were conducting a training exercise, not a raid, according […]

A White man from South Carolina is in jail for allegedly killing his Black co-worker and dragging him for more than 10 miles with his truck, according to the Associated Press. Authorities believe the murder may have been a possible hate crime. “We’ve not been able to rule that out,” Reggie Lloyd, chief of the […]

(NNPA) – The deepening crisis in the Gulf Coast, caused by what is being called the largest oil spill in the nation’s history, has some analysts zeroing in on what they call a systemic history of corporate criminal behavior and weak government accountability. “BP is a habitual criminal offender and cannot be trusted. The fact […]

The FIFA World Cup will be played in South Africa June 11-July 11, the first time in the tourney’s storied history that it will take place on the African continent. This World Cup will allow South Africa, a country dogged by its shameful Apartheid-era injustices and discrimination, to showcase its continuously shifting social landscape and […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Before Jamaican security forces stormed into his poor West Kingston neighborhood, George Green got jobs and help with food bills from a fugitive slum boss. Garbage trucks left the cracked streets spotless. Today, the walls of the Tivoli Gardens housing project are pockmarked with bullets and trash is strewn about after […]

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R.) met with President Obama privately on June 3, but both sides said no substantial developments came from the sit-down. Much of the discussion centered around Arizona’s new immigration law, which many believe could lead to racial profiling, and the White House’s plan to send 1,200 additional troops to the Arizona […]

Fox News personality and conservative talk show host Glenn Beck has apologized for mocking Malia Obama in a pretend conversation on his radio show. Beck said he was trying to explain how President Obama uses his children to deflect media criticism, and said he took it too far. “In discussing how President Obama uses children […]