Category: National News

About a month after her abrupt dismissal from government services, Shirley Sherrod was back in Washington, about a job. And she turned it down. According to reports, Sherrod was offered a job in Washington, to deal with discrimination within the USDA. When she declined that offer, she was offered her previous position. She refused that […]

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) – Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Jay Young is still haunted by the desperate voices on the other end of the telephone crying and begging for help. As a loan officer for a federal agency that was supposed to help homeowners and businesses get back on their feet, he had high expectations […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says it’s cracking down on some of the most dangerous sex offenders in the nation’s capital. Deputy U.S. Marshal David Neumann, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals for D.C. Superior Court, says the agency is targeting the five most wanted sex offenders who have failed to register with […]

After spending 13 years in prison, a California man who became an example of the state’s “three strikes” law has been released. According to the Associated Press, a California Superior Court judge released Gregory Taylor, 47, who was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1997 after he was arrested for trying to break into […]

Fewer than half of all Black males nationwide graduate from high school according to a new report which paints a grim picture of the current state of education for African-American males. The findings are part of The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education. According to the report, only 47 percent […]

NAACP President Ben Jealous and former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod will deliver a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund in Epes, Ala. on Saturday, Aug. 21. Sherrod gained national attention after she was wrongfully terminated when a video of her speaking at an NAACP luncheon […]

President Obama will visit Louisiana on Aug. 29 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. The president will make remarks at Xavier University of Louisiana to commemorate the event. National Urban League CEO Marc Morial said that the president’s visit was a welcome decision, along with […]

After weeks of media hype, rapper Wyclef Jean’s bid for the Haitian presidency ended Aug. 21 after the country’s Provisional Electoral Council did not approve his candidacy. He was among 15 other candidates rejected in the race, council spokesman Richardson Dumel told reporters in Haiti. “Though I disagree with the ruling, I respectfully accept the […]

Before the nation’s economic recession hit, Thea Goines, a single mother of two, didn’t have many financial problems. But since its arrival, she has found it increasingly difficult to provide even the simplest things for her children, such as new clothes and shoes. “Though others have been through worse, I have truly felt, and am […]

President Obama signed legislation on Aug. 10 that would save an expected 160,000 jobs nationwide for public school teachers. The Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act passed the House of Representatives by a 247 to 161 vote, with only two Republicans voting with majority Democrats to support the bill. Funds allocated through a federal $10 […]

Republican leaders are calling for hearings to repeal parts of the 14th Amendment that, critics say, provide a pathway to immigration reform. The cornerstone of American civil liberties, the amendment was adopted in 1868 after the Civil War and guaranteed citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including newly emancipated slaves. The GOP has […]

Democrats are deploying First Lady Michelle Obama to the campaign trail to help them retain control of Congress in this fall’s mid-term elections and boost her husband in the 2012 presidential election. The first lady, who has appeared on the cover of 12 magazines since ascending to the White House nearly two years ago, currently […]