Category: National News

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Feb. 2 rebutted fresh skepticism about whether the Voting Rights Act is still needed in the South and whether it is constitutional. Consider Calera, Ala. and its lone Black councilman just five years ago, LDF lawyers said during oral arguments in federal court in Atlanta involving a […]

Laura Murphy traveled to Egypt to celebrate her sister Madeline Murphy Rabb’s birthday, but the already memorable trip evolved into an experience of a lifetime as she bore witness to days of unrest, hope, fear, and the first flickering of a new democracy ready to ignite. Murphy, the Washington Director for the American Civil Liberties […]

The 112th Congress has convened with a new chairman for the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II. Coming to the House of Representatives for his third term from Missouri’s Fifth District, he serves on the Financial Services Committee, Homeland Security Committee and the Speaker’s Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The Congressional […]

Retiring Texas Railroad Commissioner and Tea Party favorite Michael Williams has decided to run for the U.S. Senate. The bow tie-clad, boot-shod Black Texan said Jan. 25 that he wants to bring his starkly conservative views—including no preferential treatment for Blacks in higher education, acceleration of oil exploration in coastal areas and a reduced role […]

Revered anti-apartheid activist and former South African President Nelson Mandela was released from a South African hospital on Jan. 28 after successfully battling an acute respiratory infection. Mandela’s release ended international speculation about his failing health and rumored death. Reuters photographs showed Mandela, 92, leaving Johannesburg, South Africa’s Milpark Hospital on a stretcher surrounded by […]

Law enforcement agencies and other groups continue the search for Phylicia Barnes, the North Carolina teen who disappeared on Dec. 28 while visiting her sister in Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department, the FBI and Team Adam from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are all working to follow any lead, in an effort […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Did you buy energy-efficient windows for your home last year? You can only take the energy efficiency credit if they were installed by Dec. 31. That’s just one of the details that could trip up taxpayers filing 2010 returns. Want to take the first-time home buyer credit on your taxes? If you […]

WASHINGTON (TEWire) – It was an evening marked by thunderous applause, Republicans and Democrats symbolically sitting together instead of across the aisles, and a message from the president of the United States that soared with hope for economic recovery, health care, education and jobs. Still, President Obama fell slightly short of 10 points in the […]

When veteran journalist Samuel Yette started writing a provocative book that dealt with plots within the federal government to contain, control and destroy the U.S. Black population, he gave his two sons stern orders not to let anyone know what he had in the works. “As children, we were not permitted to tell anyone that […]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has acknowledged that he erred in not disclosing his wife’s income on his financial statements in the wake of complaints raised by liberal advocacy group Common Cause. In filings dated Jan. 21, Thomas sent seven similarly-worded letters to the Federal Committee on Financial Disclosure asking to amend his disclosure forms. […]

According to a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney Office in the Southern District of New York, Ann Pettway, the alleged kidnapper of an infant from New York’s Harlem Hospital 23 years ago has admitted to abducting the infant and raising her as her own. The complaint, sworn by FBI Special Agent Maria Johnson, indicates […]