Category: National News

A prominent photographer who worked in the trenches during the Civil Rights era has been revealed to have also been a paid informant for the FBI at the time. According to a report by Democracy Now, Ernest Withers worked closely with the FBI to monitor civil rights activists during the 1960s. Withers is also said […]

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous is asking Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour to pardon two sisters serving life sentences for their role in a 1993 armed robbery that netted $11. Jamie and Gladys Scott, then 21 and 19 respectively, each were found guilty of two counts of armed robbery when they were accused of luring two men […]

Four Baltimore and Washington, D.C. -area colleges and universities landed on top of a recently compiled list of the 50 most dangerous campuses in the United States. According to a survey conducted by news Web site The Daily Beast, University of Maryland-Baltimore ranked second, University of Baltimore ranked sixth, Howard University was a close seventh, […]

Washington, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) plans to introduce a bill renaming the U.S. Post Office located at 2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E., near the U.S. Capitol in honor of late civil rights icon Dorothy Height. Norton plans to submit her bill when lawmakers reconvene next week from their summer break. “Dr. Height’s immensely impactful […]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) continued its attempts to address the ongoing rise in foreclosures nationally during the week of Sept. 5 with another round of major contributions to state and local governments. The department’s $1 billion contribution will be the third round of funding through HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), which […]

Eighteen historically Black colleges and universities recently received grants from the Department of Agriculture to strengthen their research and teaching capabilities and better recruit and train students in agriculture, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Sept. 9. This year, grants totaling $50 million were awarded through the department’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which supports […]

Click Here to View Funeral Arrangments for Dr. Ronald W. Walters. For more than four decades, Ronald Walters, PhD. served the African-American community, the United States and the world as a consultant, teacher, writer, mentor and friend. His service came to a close Sept. 10, when he lost a battle with cancer at Suburban Hospital […]

Funeral services for Dr. Ronald W. Walters, the legendary civil rights activist, political strategist and distinguished scholar, who passed away on Sept. 10 at the age of 72, will take place in Washington, D.C. On Sunday, Sept. 19, a memorial service will be held at Howard University, On Monday, Sept. 20, the funeral service will […]

On Sept. 4, 1957, then-high school sophomore Jefferson Thomas walked a gauntlet of hate – a boiling-angry White mob spewing spit and jeers, taunts and threats of lynching and an impenetrable barricade of armed soldiers blocking his way into Little Rock, Ark.’s Central High School. Inside the school’s walls – breached with the help of […]

The rough year facing African-American Democrats nationally continued locally as Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie, D-Dist 25, was indicted. Curry faces 18 charges in connection to what investigators say was a six-year conspiracy between him and local grocery store chain, Shoppers Food Warehouse (SFW). The indictment claims Currie used his position to advance the company’s interests. […]

Hurricane Earl was advertised as a storm that would lash the East Coast with heavy winds and rain, but the storm went out with a whimper and didn’t cause nearly the kind of damage that was expected. Projections warning about the storm’s power had been sent by everyone from weather forecasters to government officials. “Conditions […]

Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Oct. 2 for the One Nation Working Together organization’s rally for jobs, justice and education. A conglomerate of “progressives” is “heeding a call to put America back to work and pull America back together,” the march’s organizing […]