Category: National News

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 […]

Click on the photo to view a high-resolution version. (AFRO Photo/J.D. Howard) WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative activists rallied Aug. 28 in the nation’s capital on the anniversary and at the same site of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Civil rights leaders countered the event and held a […]

The Florida Supreme Court dealt a blow Aug. 31 to state legislators seeking to challenge President Obama’s health care reform. The court voted 5-2 to uphold a decision rendered by a lower court to remove a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution from Florida’s Nov. 2 ballot. Had the measure passed, Florida would have joined […]

FREDERICK (AP) — Shayla Monroe rises at 4 a.m. for her commute from Washington to Frederick eagerly anticipating the work ahead: digging through the trash. Monroe is one of six area university students hired this summer through a grant by the U.S. Department of Interior to excavate former slave dwellings on what is now the […]

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele once again talked his way into the news this week with comments on Arizona’s controversial immigration law. Steele, speaking to Spanish-language television network Univision, said the views of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer don’t necessarily represent his view or those of all Republicans. “The actions of one state’s governor not […]

Alveda King, Ph.D., daughter of the late Rev. A.D. King and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is calling for a boycott of the abortion industry as she participates in Fox News personality Glenn Beck’s rally on the National Mall this weekend. On the 47th anniversary of the Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” […]

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 […]