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An African-American author from Maryland claims that former Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, was a Black man who was passing for white.
NEW YORK (AP) — During the first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests, the movement that is demanding more out of the wealthiest Americans cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press. The heaviest financial burden has fallen upon law […]
On Tuesday’s visit to New Hampshire, President Barack Obama’s jobs speech was interrupted by protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement. While the movement members used their “human microphone” technique, members of the audience booed. Notably, Obama sided with the protesters, saying “It’s OK.” The Washington Post reports what happened next: Then he directly […]
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 […]