Category: National News

A couple of days ago I was watching, “Hardball,” with Chris Matthews and the hot subject that evening was the GOP’s man of the hour or bum of the month, depending on your perspective, Rick Santorum. Since his rather improbable caucus victory in Iowa last month the pervasive media narrative on the former Pennsylvania Senator […]

“Guess who’s coming to dinner?” is becoming a standard refrain in many homes as the number of interracial marriages reached an all-time high in 2010, according to a study just released on Social and Demographic Trends project by the Pew Research Center. “The upward trend of intermarriage is many decades old,” said Russ Oates of […]

BALTIMORE — Nearly 8 million of America’s children live in high-poverty areas, about 1.6 million more since 2000, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Baltimore-based organization does research and funding to programs nationally that focus on disadvantaged children and families. About 7.9 million, or 11 percent, of the nation’s […]

Earl S. Richardson envisioned a plan that would have allowed both his predominantly Black Morgan State University in Baltimore and largely White Towson University 15 miles away to jointly offer a high-quality MBA program that would have the additional benefit of making their universities more racially diverse. Richardson, who retired as president of Morgan last […]

Facts continue to pour out of Beverly Hills, Calif. where singer and actress Whitney Houston, 48, spent the last days of her life. Mere hours before she was to perform at a pre-Grammy party for her long-time producer and friend, Clive Davis, Houston was found underwater in her hotel room bathtub. Though toxicology reports will […]

Tom Joyner, host of “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” this week administered a public spanking to Roland Martin, one of the show’s senior analysts, over inflammatory statements Martin tweeted during the Super Bowl. In a public letter, Joyner urged Martin to “make things right” by issuing a “sincere” apology to GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paramedics say they took Whitney Houston’s daughter to a Los Angeles hospital Sunday morning for unspecified medical reasons. The Beverly Hills Fire Department says Bobbi Kristina Brown was taken from the Beverly Hills Hilton around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, less than a day after her mother died in a room at the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry’s biggest names prepared for a Grammy Awards show that will be undoubtedly feel as much like a memorial as a celebration. Houston’s body arrived at a Los Angeles morgue early Sunday, hours after the 48-year-old had been […]

Maryland’s four historical black institutions continued to forge ahead Monday with their $2.1 billion case against the state, claiming injustice in the way of funding and segregated practices. Among the scheduled witnesses for the day was Dr. Sue Blanshan, who currently serves as Director of Planning and Academic Affairs for the Maryland Higher Education Committee […]

In an unusual and confounding move, attorneys for Maryland relied on an expert witness who acknowledged that he never visited the four Black institutions before concluding that they had received sufficient state funding over the past years to remedy past racial discrimination. Instead he relied upon his own computation of state funding based upon proportional […]

A White teenager charged with intentionally running over a Black man with his pickup truck in Jackson, Miss. last summer, is fighting to have his trial moved to a predominately non-Black county. A hearing to determine where Deryl Dedmond, 19, will be tried has been pushed back at least once; it’s now set for Feb. […]

Final in a series “Red Tails,” a new Hollywood motion picture starring Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and Oscar nominee Terence Howard was released Jan. 20 in theaters across the nation. It tells the story of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black aviators in the United States Armed Forces. The AFRO reported on the […]