Category: National News

A White man from South Carolina is in jail for allegedly killing his Black co-worker and dragging him for more than 10 miles with his truck, according to the Associated Press. Authorities believe the murder may have been a possible hate crime. “We’ve not been able to rule that out,” Reggie Lloyd, chief of the […]

(NNPA) – The deepening crisis in the Gulf Coast, caused by what is being called the largest oil spill in the nation’s history, has some analysts zeroing in on what they call a systemic history of corporate criminal behavior and weak government accountability. “BP is a habitual criminal offender and cannot be trusted. The fact […]

The FIFA World Cup will be played in South Africa June 11-July 11, the first time in the tourney’s storied history that it will take place on the African continent. This World Cup will allow South Africa, a country dogged by its shameful Apartheid-era injustices and discrimination, to showcase its continuously shifting social landscape and […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Before Jamaican security forces stormed into his poor West Kingston neighborhood, George Green got jobs and help with food bills from a fugitive slum boss. Garbage trucks left the cracked streets spotless. Today, the walls of the Tivoli Gardens housing project are pockmarked with bullets and trash is strewn about after […]

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R.) met with President Obama privately on June 3, but both sides said no substantial developments came from the sit-down. Much of the discussion centered around Arizona’s new immigration law, which many believe could lead to racial profiling, and the White House’s plan to send 1,200 additional troops to the Arizona […]

Fox News personality and conservative talk show host Glenn Beck has apologized for mocking Malia Obama in a pretend conversation on his radio show. Beck said he was trying to explain how President Obama uses his children to deflect media criticism, and said he took it too far. “In discussing how President Obama uses children […]

Supreme Court conservatives on June 1 approved tighter limits on the Miranda rights for criminal suspects for the third time in the court’s current session. This comes over the concerns of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the court’s other liberal members. The court in a 5-4 decision ruled that a suspect who proceeds to talk to […]

This is the final portion of a two-part series from the AFRO’s Road to Brown (2004) chronicling Thurgood Marshall’s quest to integrate Baltimore schools. Click here to read Part 1. Oct. 8, 1935 Marshall was putting the pieces of the case together and his work included extensive travel around the state. He reported his efforts […]

Artur Davis’ calculated decision to alienate Alabama’s African-American establishment added up to a crushing loss June 1, when he was defeated by Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, political analysts and other observers said. The Congressional Black Caucus member, who has represented the state’s Seventh Congressional District for eight years, eschewed Black […]

A bill similar to Arizona’s controversial recent immigration law was killed in the Rhode Island House of Representatives on May 25. Democratic State Rep. Peter Palumbo introduced the bill that, like the Arizona measure, would have allowed police to check for proof of legal U.S. residency. However, House Speaker Gordon Fox, also a Democrat, believed […]

President Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, and will request $500 million for border protection and law enforcement, he announced during the week of May 24. According to The Washington Post, the move may be an olive branch offered to Republicans to entice them to let Obama’s immigration reform […]

An alleged drug lord targeted in a Jamaican government raid which kicked off urban warfare in that nation’s capital may be ready to surrender to U.S. officials in New York, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said on May 26 that Christopher Coke may have fled the island nation following the raid and may have begun […]