Category: National News

Monday night’s NCAA Championship matchup between Duke and Butler may have lacked star power, but it certainly didn’t lack excitement. The No. 1 seed Duke Blue Devils (35-5) barely escaped with 61-59 victory against the No. 5 seed Butler Bulldogs (33-5) in front of a crowd of 70,000 shouting fans in Indianapolis. Duke’s win marked […]

Cinderella teams typically don’t make the national championship game, let alone win it. So when the Butler Bulldogs face the Duke Blue Devils in the title game on April 5, the fifth-seeded Bulldogs will be hoping to accomplish the unlikely. Fourth-seeded Arizona’s 1997 win was the last time a school seeded lower than third claimed […]

Despite a concerted effort to get the word out, returns of U.S. Census Bureau forms lag in Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Prince George’s County, Md. According to the Census Bureau, Baltimore and Prince George’s are second and third to last among all jurisdictions in Maryland with rates of 49 and 52 percent respectively.  D.C. ranks […]

WASHINGTON – National Census Day has come and gone —the federal government’s reminder to get those census forms in post haste and save money. To promote the day and its message, the U.S Census Bureau and its community partners will sponsored a slew of events across the nation to “empower communities” and remind residents that […]

With the signing of yet another historical piece of legislation, President Obama made good on his promise to make higher education more affordable and accessible for all Americans. The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, enacted on March 30, strengthens the Pell Grant program, invests in community colleges, extends support for historically Black colleges and […]

 In the wake of the massive health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives on March 21 and signed into law by President Obama, more than a dozen states have joined in a lawsuit against the U.S. government. Attorneys general in 12 states have joined a lawsuit filed March 23 by Florida Attorney […]

As of 10:30 a.m. today, April 19, Dr. Dorothy Height, chairman and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, remained in serious but stable condition at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Prominent civil rights leader Dorothy Height, chairman emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women, remained hospitalized in serious but stable […]

Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas was sentenced on March 26 to a month in a halfway house and two years probation for violating Washington, D.C. gun laws late last year. ?Despite federal prosecutors requesting at least a three-month jail sentence for Arenas, D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert B. Morin instead ordered Arenas to spend 30 […]

Kweisi Mfume, former U.S. congressman and past president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was named chief executive officer of the National Medical Association (NMA) this week. The NMA is the nation’s oldest and largest medical association representing the interests of more than 30,000 African-American physicians and their […]

With a flourish of a pen—several, actually —President Barack Obama on March 23 further canonized himself in history, enacting of one of the most sweeping health care reform laws America has seen. “Today, after almost a century of trying; today, after over a year of debate; today, after all the votes have been tallied — […]

On March 17, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) held a hearing to discuss the alarming unemployment rates among African Americans.  Many in the hearing said there is funding out there, it’s just not getting to the places that need it most. “The national recession is certainly not over for mainstream America,” said Mayor Douglass Palmer […]

WASHINGTON — Thousands of people descended upon the National Mall on the afternoon of March 21 for the March for America rally, and while jobs and immigration reform were supposed to be the dual themes of the event, the latter seemed to dominate. Marchers carried signs saying “We’re All Americans” and “Latinos Aren’t Slaves” while […]