Category: National News

San Francisco (AP) — Gay rights advocates on Monday filed a challenge to a request by the Obama administration to keep the repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in place while the Pentagon prepares for an end to the ban on allowing gays to serve openly in the military. In a brief filed in the […]

Family and supporters of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis say they remain optimistic in their fight to save him from execution despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject his appeal, Monday. “People always ask us every time there is a decision – especially a negative decision – how do we feel, and we […]

Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan issued a warning to President Obama on how to handle the growing conflict in Libya. “I want to warn you in the name of Allah that this is more complex than what you think,” Farrakhan said on WVON-AM in Chicago March 18. “Go into Libya if you want […]

Job creation and unemployment are at the heart of the 2011 installment of the National Urban League’s State of Black America report. In a conference call March 25, Marc Morial, CEO and president of the league, and Valerie Wilson of the National Urban League’s Policy Institute said the report will zero in on how “Black […]

A new law requiring women who seek abortions in South Dakota to wait 72 hours, and undergo anti-abortion counseling while waiting, is prodding pro-choice advocates to act to make sure the tight abortion rules don’t spread to other states. Gov. Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota signed the bill into law March 25, making the toughest […]

It’s been one year since President Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), but you could hardly tell—public opinion remains just as divided as it did 12 months ago, and Americans seem just as confused. According to the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation this month, 52 percent […]

On March 21, 2006, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey typed the two seemingly forgettable words that launched a media empire – “inviting coworkers.” Five years later, the microblogging site has become a leading force in international news reporting and the public voice for celebrities, world leaders and everyday users. According to Twitter’s official blog, nearly 500,000 […]

Former Baseball star Barry Bonds confesses to using steroids unknowingly, his attorney said during his perjury trial on March 22 in San Francisco, according to reports. The Associated Press reports that Bonds’ lawyer, Allen Rugby, claims his client was misled into believing he was using flaxseed oil and arthritis cream when his personal trainer was […]

At 40 years old, the Congressional Black Caucus is larger, stronger and no less committed to the cause of justice and equality as it was at its birth, Black lawmakers said in recognition of the group’s anniversary in March of 1971. A daylong symposium will be held at Howard University Apr. 4 that will feature […]

If a school can’t keep at least half its athletes on pace to graduate, it should not compete for a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship and be cut out of the multi-million dollar post-season pay-out Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said March 17. In a crusade launched in the early stages of the NCAA […]

A fixture in the Harlem, N.Y. community for nearly 10 years, former President Bill Clinton is moving most of the operations of his nonprofit William J. Clinton Foundation to lower Manhattan to take advantage of more space and lower rent. According to The New York Times, the foundation will move a majority of its offices […]

Readers who access The New York Times online will soon be charged for their usage, as executives at the newspaper recently announced a plan to create digital subscriptions. The newspaper’s publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. explained in a March 17 letter that the new pay wall will first take effect in Canada and will be […]