Category: National News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]