The president of Florida A&M University has announced Tuesday he will be suspending the school’s famous Marching 100 band until investigators establish what led to a member’s death last weekend.
Dr. Cornel West will resign from his position at Princeton University this coming summer to return to Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he started out as an assistant professor in 1977.
An an extremely old video of Barack Obama doing a “Black History Minute” for TBS back in 1991 has recently surfaced.
Reggie Love, President Barack Obama’s personal assistant and “First Brother” is resigning his position to attend business school the University Of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Of Business. Love, who played basketball for Duke University has been working for Obama since 2006 when he was a senator. ABC News reports: Love said he felt fortunate to be […]
A New York man committed suicide by jumping into the Harlem River– just hours after his wedding.
This week’s Washington Watch newsmaker is one of the Republican Party’s most outspoken fiscal and social conservatives. Cong. Steve King has represented Iowa’s Fifth Congressional District since 2003, so it’s safe to say he knows his way around Washington.
Talk to any medical professional — not politician; any medical professional, and they will tell you the greatest danger to escalating healthcare costs is tied directly to obesity — not cancer, not AIDS, not breast cancer, not anything else but obesity. And for political leaders to sit here and fall for the lobbying dollars of […]
One person’s ignorance is on display, another may be running out of money, one is suddenly popular, and another still gets no love. Is this “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”? No, it’s the Republican presidential campaign. Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss Herman Cain’s Libya flub and President Obama saying that Americans have […]
Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss Newt Gingrich’s sudden rise in the polls and his $1.6 million paycheck from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Plus the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Scandal.
On his radio show yesterday, right wing pundit Rush Limbaugh talked about the recent booing of First Lady Michelle Obama at a NASCAR event. Limbaugh defended the booers, claiming that they had a right to do so, considering her healthy eating initiatives and vacations, accusing her of “uppity-ism.” The term “uppity” has historically been used […]