Category: National News

Black farmers were again denied a $1.25 billion settlement in a racial bias case against the federal government, when Senate Republicans on August 5 failed to support a unanimous consent on the measure. With Congress now in recess, those farmers have been put on hold again after waiting for more than a decade. “The Black […]

The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, making her the fourth woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. Members of the Senate voted 63-37 for Kagan, President Barack Obama’s nominee, to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens. Only five Republicans supported Kagan and one Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson […]

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that blocks the government from forcing people to buy health insurance and penalizing those who don’t. Proposition C, one of several challenges to the Obama administration’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was supported by 71.1 percent of voters in the state’s Aug. 3 primary election. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – California Democrat Maxine Waters faces a House trial this fall on three charges of ethical wrongdoing, setting the stage for a second election-season public airing of ethics problems for a longtime Democratic lawmaker. The charges focus on whether Waters broke the rules in requesting federal help for a bank where her husband […]

Omar Thornton shot and killed eight people, before committing suicide at his workplace in Manchester, Conn., Tuesday morning after reportedly facing disciplinary action for stealing beer. Chris Roos, a representative for Teamsters Local 1035 said in a statement that the 34-year-old truck driver at Hartford Distributors met with company and union officials on the morning […]

When will the checks arrive? That’s the question to which John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, has been seeking an answer to for more than a decade. But with a Senate vote slated to take place this week, the Virginia-based farmer said he hopes the government will finally pay its debt. “This […]

Maryland and Washington, D.C., are among 19 finalists recognized for their “bold” plans for education reforms, according to the U.S. Education Department. The jurisdictions beat out 17 other applicants for more than $3 billion available in the second round of funding in the Race to the Top program, said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan […]

WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his education initiative in a speech to the National Urban League conference July 29, days after the League and other civil rights groups sent him a 17-page letter criticizing the program, known as Race to the Top. “ fight for Race to the Top with everything I’ve got, including using […]

“I knew it was racism and no one had to tell me that” said Shirley Sherrod, the recently fired director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development office in Georgia, as she answered questions July 29 at a panel discussion entitled “Context and Consequences: Conversation with Shirley Sherrod” during the National Association of Black […]

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has chosen to face an ethics trial rather than accept charges levied by the House ethics subcommittee. According to the L.A. Times, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is confronting Waters over allegations that she helped OneUnited Bank, a Massachusetts-based, minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock and […]

The Obama Administration is doing its part to improve the workplace for all working middle class families. On July 20, Vice President Joe Biden held a meeting of the Middle Class Task Force that focused on finding solutions and making recommendations on equal pay for men and women. The meeting also addressed the desire to […]

The trap – a grainy, 2½-minute clip – was rudimentary by today’s technology standards. It even bore a sign, “Trap Here↓” – posted as it was on the blog site of a man who has publicly declared his intent to destroy the institutional left. And yet, the Obama administration, blindly joined by the NAACP, fell […]