Category: National News

While the trend of interracial marriages between Whites and American-born Asians, and Whites and Hispanics has slowed over the years, Blacks are more likely than before to marry whites, according to new census data. The latest census reveals that the number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has increased by 20 percent since 2000 to […]

In Part I: With the Murray appeal still pending, Marshall and Houston were engaged in two very important Maryland battles simultaneously, the equal pay for Colored teachers case that was burgeoning in Anne Arundel County in 1936 and the Baltimore County school desegregation case in 1935. There were about 40 enclaves in Baltimore County with […]

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison on May 25 for violating terms of his probation, The Associated Press reported. According to officials, Kilpatrick is required to serve at least one-and-a-half years in prison, but will be granted a 120-day credit for the time he served from his […]

The day after 1921’s Decoration Day – now Memorial Day – stands as a dark day in Oklahoma and American history. A mere 58 years after emancipation, and 89 years ago, racial tensions in Tulsa, Okla., ignited. The result: One of the most successful Black townships in the country, the Greenwood area of Tulsa, was […]

Since the latest changes to its privacy controls, Facebook has faced serious criticism from industry watchers and users. Among the site’s biggest critics are Canadian-based Web architects, Joseph Dee and Matthew Milan. They created quitfacebookday.com in protest, and have over 15,000 users committed to leaving their Facebook accounts behind on May 31. On their Web […]

An Idaho woman returned to the United States on May 18 after she was convicted of trying to take nearly three dozen children out of Haiti in the aftermath of that county’s devastating January earthquake. Laura Silsby, 40, was the leader of 10 American missionaries who visited Haiti and attempted to remove children from that […]

The Tea Party supported, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky has come under fire for comments he recently made about segregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During the week of May 17, Paul questioned the federal government’s right to desegregate private businesses under the act decades ago. This had been a […]

An Alabama math teacher who developed a hypothetical assassination plot against President Obama to teach angles and lines in a geometry class will not face charges, but may lose his job. In the lesson, students at Corner High School in Jefferson County, Ala. were tasked to determine the most effective angles for shooting the president. […]

Sex offenders considered sexually dangerous can now be held in prison indefinitely after their prison terms are completed, the Supreme Court ruled on May 17. According to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision reversed a lower court ruling which held that Congress exceeded its authority in passing a law permitting indefinite […]

The feud between two factions of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference came to a head during the week of May 17 over an alleged break-in at the group’s Atlanta headquarters. The Rev. Markel Hutchins, who claims he was named interim president, CEO and CFO of the group, welded shut the back doors of the headquarters […]

WASHINGTON — An ongoing investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of a voter intimidation case involving a Black militant group is less a quest for justice and more a “witch hunt,” said one official. “It’s all about people trying to continue the lie that there’s a double standard for Whites and Blacks under an Obama […]

The American Civil Liberties Union and a collection of other civil rights organizations on May 17 filed a class action lawsuit that counters Arizona’s imminent law targeting illegal immigration. The National Immigration Law Center, The National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are among the many groups […]