Category: National News

Kweisi Mfume, former U.S. Congressman and current chief executive officer of the National Medical Association (NMA), recently announced that he was stepping down from the position, effective in June. “I’ve had the opportunity to work with a great number of very talented physicians and scientists, as their chief administrator who runs the ship day in […]

WASHINGTON (TriceEdneyWire.com) – On the 184th birthday of the Black Press, March 16, an odd debacle is underway. The NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, is under fire from Black newspapers around the country over an issue of economic injustice. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous admits that “a grave mistake […]

From a mountaintop on Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands, the following notes present a picture of the dramatic experience of those waiting the arrival of the Tsunami generated by Japan’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake. 2 a.m.: Well here we are 2 a.m. (HST) March 11, 2011 Koko Head District Park in a twilight zone. The stillness […]

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama met with more than 150 parents, teachers, non-profit leaders, advocates, and policymakers at a White House conference on March 10 in an effort to address the problem of youth bullying. Those in attendance discussed methods to achieve safer schools and communities for the nation’s students. One of the […]

Gen. William “Kip” Ward, commander of the United States Africa Command or AFRICOM, passed the position to U.S. Army Gen. Carter F. Ham during a ceremony on March 9, in Sindelfingen, Germany. Ward, a four-star general, is stepping down nearly three and a half years after the inception of the command, which is based in […]

Changes to the No Child Left Behind program must be made before the abandonment of America’s at-risk children to failure becomes more deeply engrained, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a House committee on March 9. “No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now,” Duncan told the House Committee on Education […]

A recent hearing focused on the extent of radicalization among members of the American Muslim community has created a stir among that group. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who conducted the March 10 hearing, said that the threat of Islamic radicalization is growing in the U.S. and he thinks it’s time to address the issue. “This […]

A federal drug trafficking sting which netted 64 arrests in Baltimore was lauded by federal officials but has introduced new arguments questioning the effectiveness of America’s war on drugs. “Wherever criminal gangs bring violence to our streets, that is where we will direct the resources needed to send them to prison,” Baltimore U.S. Attorney Rod […]

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Investigators have arrested a man they say planted a sophisticated bomb along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane – a failed attack but one that raised concern, because he has ties to a white supremacist organization. A federal complaint provided no details of the investigation or what […]

The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church is within its first amendment rights to picket the funerals of soldiers with anti-gay messages, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 3. “Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and—as it did here—inflict great pain,” Chief Justice John […]

Black lawmakers at a recent House hearing accused Republicans of attempting to ignite racial friction, following GOP claims that illegal immigrants in the U.S. take jobs from African-Americans, the Associated Press reported. The hearing on illegal immigrants and their impact on minorities was held March 1. “I am concerned by the majority’s attempt to manufacture tension between […]

Possible 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is cleaning up his mess after making controversial comments about President Obama’s upbringing. In a Feb. 28 radio interview with WOR in New York to promote his book, Huckabee made controversial comments falsely claiming that Obama was raised in Kenya and received anti-Western ideology from his father. “If […]