Category: National News

Long before news broke of the Penn State sex scandal, it has now been revealed that between 1971 and 1991, Donald Fitzpatrick, a former Boston Red Sox manager, systematically abused and molested dozens of African American boys in their hometown of Winter Haven, Florida, where the baseball team held their Spring training. “He grabbed me […]

President Obama’s top drug policy advisor will hold a media briefing on Nov. 21 at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to share new approaches to America’s drug war. Gil Kerlikowske, director of National Drug Control Policy, will share data regarding the disproportionate impact our nation’s drug problem has on African American communities. Kerlikowske […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Herman Cain suggested Friday that the Taliban were playing a role in Libya’s new government, adding another foreign policy misstep to his stumbling presidential campaign. The week opened with Cain struggling to answer whether he supported President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in Libya. He ended his week trying to blame reporters for […]

Congress unanimously passed two provisions of the American Jobs Act during the week of Nov. 14, although the passing of those provisions may do little to bring down the country’s high employment rate. Contractors will no longer have a tax-withholding requirement and corporations will receive tax incentives for hiring veterans. The measures were among the […]

Penn State coach Mike McQueary said he acted to stop former coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of a child in a 2002 incident he allegedly witnessed, and contacted police about the matter. In an e-mail to a friend leaked to the Associated Press, McQueary said he stopped the abuse in progress and contacted the police. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man with an apparent obsession with President Barack Obama has been arrested in Pennsylvania after the Secret Service discovered two bullets struck the White House while the president was away, authorities said Wednesday. One bullet smashed into a window of the living quarters of the executive mansion but was stopped by […]

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Sharon Bialek’s former boyfriend said Monday the then-couple spent an evening with Herman Cain in the 1990s. That countered the GOP presidential candidate’s earlier statements that he never met the woman who has accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior more than a decade ago. “Sharon indeed did meet and spend time […]

President Barack Obama held the first ever African-American Policy in Action Leadership Conference at the White House on Nov. 9 to coincide with the release of a report, “The President’s Agenda and the African-American Community.” In front of a gathering that included Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, […]

The rigorous history of service and battle does not discriminate. Many stories rich with the grit, valor and patriotism of all Americans dot the landscape that is the US Military. And they all deserve honor, not just on Veteran’s Day, but every day. Though the faces of those who’ve fought for freedom’s way are varied, […]

A little-known movie is getting lots of attention lately because of its suggested strategies being used, knowingly or unknowingly, by participants in the ongoing Occupy Movement. The movie, Ghetto Physics, produced by William Arntz and E. Raymond Brown, author of Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up said the Occupy Movement is an […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Frazier needed the night of his career to knock down “The Greatest.” Frazier knocked Muhammad Ali down in the 15th round and became the first man to beat him in the Fight of the Century at Madison Square Garden in March 1971, the first in a trilogy of bouts that have […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative-leaning appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider this week whether to resolve conflicting rulings over the law’s requirement that all Americans buy health care insurance. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]