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PBS host Tavis Smiley and Professor Cornel West went on CNN yesterday to talk about their nationwide “Poverty Tour” and President Obama. Instead, they got into a debate with CNN anchor, Carol Costello. Smiley and West appeared on “American Morning” and went straight on the attack of President Obama’s debt ceiling deal. “I think this […]

In an exclusive interview with TheLoop.com, Rev. Al Sharpton spoke about his much talked-about absence at the 2011 NABJ Convention in Philadelphia this past weekend where he was scheduled to appear. Sharpton, who has been in the news lately for successful fill-in role in the 6 p.m. time slot for Cenk Uygur on MSNBC, said […]

As the most recent data demonstrates scant growth in the nation’s employment rate, lawmakers on Capitol Hill appear to be abruptly shifting their discussions regarding raising the nation’s debt ceiling back to a chief concern of many Americans: unemployment. But leaders in the nation’s capital – a place where unemployment nears 25 percent in some […]

CLAYTON COUNTY, GA. — A Decatur, Ga., pastor is being held without bond on molestation charges. Samuel Walsham Chapman, 58, a pastor at Riverdale Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Jonesboro, was arrested after a 15-year-old boy alleged that Chapman took him to a parking lot and performed a sexual act in front of him. Read more […]

Milwaukee — Questions continue to surface on what may have instigated last week’s violence at the Wisconsin State Fair, where a mob of  Black youth stormed the  fairgrounds to attack white patrons. Some say hip-hop at the fairgrounds motivated the attacks. Some claim the youth were avenging Barack Obama’s reputation against white critics. And still, […]

Economists are warning that a recession now would be far worse than the recession that ended in 2007. Today the economy has 5 percent fewer jobs, and the unemployment rate has almost doubled since the inset of the last recession. The NewYorkTimes.com reports: “It would be disastrous if we entered into a recession at this […]

Economists are warning that a recession now would be far worse than the recession that ended in 2007. Today the economy has 5 percent fewer jobs, and the unemployment rate has almost doubled since the onset of the last recession. The NewYorkTimes.com reports: “It would be disastrous if we entered into a recession at this […]

WASHINGTON-Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law. Critics say the benchmarks are unrealistic and brand schools as failures even if they make progress. Schools and districts where too few kids pass the […]

WASHINGTON-Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law. Critics say the benchmarks are unrealistic and brand schools as failures even if they make progress. Schools and districts where too few kids pass the […]

Video has been released of the killing of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was killed by a group of white men. One of the teens involved said “let’s go f**k with some n****,” before the incident began, according to police. The group then proceeded to beat Anderson and run him over […]