Category: National News

Streets across America have become the sounding board for the majority that refuses to remain silent in such turbulent economic times. The cry is for jobs, for economic justice, for a fair shake at making a decent living. AFRO reporters hit the streets of Baltimore and the District of Columbia to engage those who are […]

Texas officials are searching vigorously for the serial rapist that has been stalking and assaulting middle-aged African American women who also happen to be members of the same black Greek-letter organization. Authorities in Dallas and in the suburbs surrounding the metropolis have now advised all alumnae members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to begin taking […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — When a little-known Black Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King took the helm of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was already in Birmingham trying to start a movement, but nobody was paying attention. Shuttlesworth was from a small church. His credentials and pedigree made it […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year’s end and all U.S. troops “”will definitely be home for the holidays,” President Barack Obama declared Friday. Stretching more than eight years, the war cost the United States heavily: More than 4,400 members of the military have been killed, […]

Stretched across his neat padding of blankets carefully placed out of the walkway, Andre Robinson exudes positivity even as he sits next to the five plastic bins containing everything he owns. Every morning after sanitizing his space in Zuccotti Park and washing up in any available bathroom, Robinson spends hours looking for odd jobs and […]

This Halloween, a D.C. area nonprofit wants to make sure that would-be drunk drivers are kept off the roads. That’s why they introduced the SoberRide Program. Launched by the Washington Regional Alcohol Program, SoberRide will be in operation at 10 p.m. on Oct. 29 until 6 a.m. on Oct. 30 to keep roads safe from […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says Libya’s new government has told the United States that Moammar Gadhafi is dead. The official said Libya’s Transitional National Council informed U.S. officials in Libya of the development Thursday. The official said TNC chief Mahmoud Jibril was expected to officially announce Gadhafi’s death soon. The official spoke on […]

As the presidential election nears, a heckler or two isn’t uncommon, but during the Martin Luther King, Jr. dedication, such an outburst by a man was simply not going to be tolerated. As Obama began to speak during the Martin Luther King, Jr. dedication Oct. 16, a heckler, who sat close to the stage, started […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday he’s dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, which the administration accuses of a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping children that spans two decades. In a letter to Congress, Obama said the troops will act as advisers in […]

Editor’s Note: Forty-eight years and two months after his speech for the ages, the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. will once again ring out over the National Mall in the nation’s capitol this Sunday as the memorial to him is dedicated. The attorneys who staffed the NAACP legal Defense and Educational Fund during the […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — In a blow to Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law, a federal appeals court sided with the Obama administration Friday when it blocked public schools from checking the immigration status of students. The decision from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also said police can’t charge immigrants who are unable to prove […]

DETROIT (AP) — A Nigerian man said Wednesday he tried to blow up an international flight for al-Qaida with a bomb in his underwear in retaliation for the killing of Muslims worldwide, taking a federal court in Detroit by surprise as he pleaded guilty on the second day of his trial. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab answered […]