Category: National News

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 […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer has been executed for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas. The 49-year-old Byrd of Jasper was chained to the back of a pickup truck 13 years ago and pulled whip-like to his death along a […]

Alarmed by congressional efforts to beef up mandatory workforce verification, pro-illegal immigration activists demonstrated, Sept. 14, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Jaime Contreras, District chair of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, voiced his opposition to new legislation. “Undocumented immigrant workers are overwhelmingly law-abiding taxpayers, not a criminal threat,” Contreras insisted, as ten […]

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia executed Troy Davis on Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer, a crime he denied committing right to the end as supporters around the world mourned and declared that an innocent man was put to death. Defiant to the end, he told relatives of Mark MacPhail that […]

Bowie State University (BSU) student Alexis Simpson appeared in a Prince George’s County courtroom on Sept. 19 to face charges that she murdered her roommate. The 19-year-old District Heights resident is charged, according to police, because she “did feloniously, willfully and deliberately premeditated malice aforethought kill and murder” District native Dominique Frazier. According to charging […]

Update: Click here to read “Ga. High Court Rejects Plea to Stop Davis Execution” Update: Click here to read “Troy Davis Has Much Support, Little Hope” ATLANTA (AP) — Two defense lawyers say Georgia’s pardons board has rejected clemency for Troy Davis, who has attracted high-profile support for his claim that he was wrongly convicted […]

Update: Click here to read “Ga. High Court Rejects Plea to Stop Davis Execution” ATLANTA (AP) — Yet another appeal denied, Troy Davis was left with little to do Tuesday but wait to be executed for a murder he insists he did not commit. He lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection on […]

Update: Click here to read “Troy Davis Has Much Support, Little Hope” Source: The Atlanta Voice JACKSON – Georgia’s most famous prison inmate is ushered quietly into a visiting area outside his jail cell, wearing shackles, a blue-and-white prison jumpsuit and a warm, engaging smile unexpected of a man marked for death. In days, death […]

Some students at Bowie State University tried to focus on touchdowns over tragedy for a little while as their football team took on Livingstone College in today’s homecoming game. Since Thursday night, the campus has been coping with the stabbing death of Dominique Frazier allegedly at the hands of a roommate. “I never thought the […]

The nation has paused to remember the event and reverence the lives of those lost when terrorists toppled the Twin Towers of New York City’s world trade center, September 11, 2001. Innocents were lost, first responders did just that – they went into the unknown holocaust to save others and many lost their own lives. […]

Source: CBS News (CBS/AP) HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday halted the execution of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial. Read more at CBSNews.com

The poverty rate for African Americans has reached 27.4 percent, the highest level in four years, according to figures compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau this week. “The figures are both startling and very telling,” said Rev. Derrick Boykin, associate for African-American Leadership Outreach at Bread for the World, said in a statement. “That the […]