Category: National News

Michael Steele has maintained a Teflon-like resistance to criticism since he became the Republican National Committee chairman in 2008. And it appears he again will brush off calls for his resignation in the wake of his biggest gaffe to date, his criticism of the Afghanistan war, which he called “a war of Obama’s choosing.” But […]

The Department of Justice this week filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona, claiming that its immigration law, S.B. 1070, unconstitutionally interferes with the federal government’s authority to set and enforce immigration policy. S.B. 1070, which made failure to carry immigration documents a crime and allows police the discretionary power to detain anyone suspected […]

A Los Angeles County jury is to resume deliberations July 6 in the murder trial of a White, former Oakland, Calif. mass transit officer charged with killing a Black man who was lying facedown on a train platform. An Alameda County judge moved the trial from the Oakland area to Los Angeles due to intense […]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded $30.2 million to 29 HIV/AIDS housing programs across the nation, which it said would allow more than 1,000 low-income citizens living with the virus to maintain permanent housing. Over the next three years, the funds will also help provide permanent support for over 1,232 households, […]

Civil rights attorney William Taylor, an avid supporter of education and social equality, died June 28 in Bethesda, Md. He was 78. Taylor’s career, which spanned more than four decades, began in 1954 when he worked as a lawyer on the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund. NAACP President Todd Benjamin Jealous labeled the attorney […]

The United States government is accepting offers of assistance from countries around the world to help contain a runaway, deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico and clean up the spill which has pumped oil into the gulf for more than two months. “The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries […]

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again in hot water, this time over comments he made about the U.S.’s role in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, which he called, “a war of Obama’s choosing.” “This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,” Steele said during a […]

The U.S. saw mild improvements in the national unemployment rate last month, but the news is mixed for minorities who continue to be hit hard in the jobs arena, according to the Labor Department’s monthly joblessness report. Unemployment fell nationwide for the second straight month, declining to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent in May, according […]

Ryan Johnson is in his fourth year of medical school and has developed an educational platform that could revolutionize medical institutions in the future. Though he is on what many call the road to success, a rare illness and stretches of homelessness made Ryan’s path less than ideal. A native of Charlotte, N.C., Johnson, 33, […]

NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) — As BP’s deepwater well continues to discharge oil into the Gulf, the economic and public health effects are already being felt across coastal communities. But it’s likely this is only the beginning. From the bayous of southern Louisiana to the city of New Orleans, many fear this disaster represents not only […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dead nearly two decades, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall looms improbably over Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, a resurrection in liberal robes courtesy of Republicans eager to cast President Barack Obama’s selection as a judicial activist-in-waiting. “Justice Marshall is a historic figure in many respects,” Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said […]

Fourth of July holiday festivities are traditionally synonymous with a weekend getaway trip. Whether it was beach destinations, hotel stays or simple trips to visit the in-laws, the popular choice for many vacationers was to take to the road. Although the recent economic fallout has put a hold on travel plans for many Americans over […]