Category: National News

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the […]

Update: Click here to read “Over 1,000 Grieve and Say Farewell to Troy Davis at Savannah Funeral” Click here to view a slideshow of the scene at Troy Davis’ funeral SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Troy Davis spent 20 years locked up on Georgia’s row before he was executed for a murder he insisted he didn’t […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — More than 1,000 family members and supporters gathered in Georgia on Saturday to say farewell to Troy Davis. The funeral at Jonesville Baptist Church in Savannah opened with a slideshow of photos of Davis in his blue-trimmed prison uniform with his mother, sister and other family members. The service, which lasted […]

The services below are open to the public, but cameras and video recorders will not be permitted: Friday, September 30th Wake and Memorial Service 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. New Life Apostolic Temple 2120 West Bay Street Savannah, Georgia 31415 Saturday October 1 “Celebration of Life” Service 11 a.m. Jonesville Baptist Church 5201 Montgomery Street […]

Herman Cain, Black businessman and darling of the Tea Party, is not shy about putting his finger on one reason his quest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is an uphill climb. African-American voters have been brainwashed, he said in a recent appearance on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, when the issue of race […]

Far from the dim Burger King parking lot that forever changed the course of his life, Troy Anthony Davis faced his fourth and final execution date with the State of Georgia on Sept. 21. Davis, a convicted murderer who spent over two decades on death row, maintained what he and millions around the world proclaimed […]

An air of urgency was conspicuous last week during the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)’s National Town Hall meeting on jobs. The Sept. 22 meeting, day two of the CBC’s Annual Legislative Conference, saw one of the D.C. Convention Center’s most impressive ballrooms filled to capacity by participants intent on seeing some of Black America’s most […]

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to improve the quality of education for minority and poor public school students by aggressively launching civil rights investigations aimed at preventing district administrators from providing more services and resources to predominantly white schools. Faced with public schools more segregated today than in the 1970s, the department is […]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday approved a compromise between the Cherokee Nation and the descendants of slaves once owned by the tribe’s members that will allow more than 30,000 registered voters to cast ballots in the tightly-contested special election for tribal chief, if they haven’t already. U.S. District Judge Henry H. […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a mother from New York who is accused of abducting eight of her own children from a child welfare agency may be in South Carolina. Police say 28-year-old Shanel Nadal of Manhattan was visiting the children at the Forestdale agency in Queens on Monday when she took them. They […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis for the murder of an off-duty police officer has done little to resolve the debate over his guilt that captured the attention of thousands worldwide, including a former president and the pope. Davis remained defiant even after he was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night in the […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s top court has refused to halt the execution of inmate Troy Davis, leaving him nearly out of options with less than two hours until he’s scheduled to die for the killing of a policeman. Davis and his supporters have maintained his innocence. Prosecutors have stood by the case. The Georgia Supreme […]