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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Lawmakers capped a week of budget debate Thursday with a Senate vote for a school funding bill shifting money away from urban districts and House approval of a crime package that toughens sex offender sentences while slashing the budget for Minnesota’s anti-discrimination office. ALSO READ: Rutgers Pays Snooki “Jersey Shore” Star […]
ILLINOIS — Chicago native Timeica Bethel was just a three-year-old when her crack-addicted mother left her and her siblings at their grandmothers house in the Le Claire projects and never came back. ALSO READ: Rutgers Pays Snooki “Jersey Shore” Star More Than Toni Morrison To Appear Chicago Tribune reports: Yale graduation is May 23. Just […]
NEW YORK-Black historian, Manning Marable has died at age 60 of complications related to pneumonia. Marable was the the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York. The Root reports: A lifelong Marxist, Manning was a member of Committees of Correspondence […]
Los Angeles, California– Almena Lomax, a civil rights activist and founder of the Los Angeles Tribune died March 25th at 95 years old.
MIAMI-South Beach policeman, Lt. Douglas Simon was caught on camera bodyslamming a woman after his partner bodyslammed her male companion. The Miami Sun-Sentinel reports: Late Monday night, The Miami Herald posted YouTube videos online showing Lt. Douglas Simon arresting a woman who police say was kicked out of a Funkshion Fashion Week concert on the […]
CHICAGO-The head of the Nation Of Islam, Louis Farrakhan addressed the war in Libya yesterday and discussed Momar Qaddafi and Barack Obama: NBC Chicago reports: “I don’t care what Gadhafi has done wrong. He’s not the mad dog of the Middle East,” Farrakhan thundered. “The mad dogs are growling and biting in Washington, D.C.” “It’s […]
Louisville, Kentucky– The father of a second grader who was found hanging unconscious in a Frayser Elementary school bathroom stall is saying his son was attacked by older boys. Also read: “Real Housewives Of Atlanta” Walk The Carpet For Bravo Party [PHOTOS] “I was in the bathroom using the bathroom, when I got in the […]
FRESNO, Calif.—President Barack Obama has declared March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day, honoring the late farmworker activist on his birthday. Obama signed the proclamation Wednesday, saying that “Chavez’s legacy provides lessons from which all Americans can learn.” Through non-violent boycotts, marches and fasts, Chavez led a movement to protest the use of harmful pesticides and […]
An editorial in this week’s New York Amsterdam News, the legendary Black newspaper of New York, highlights the rise of Rev. Al Sharpton’s storied civil rights organization The National Action Network, which will celebrate its 20th year of operation April 6-9 at their national convention in New York City. Related: NewsOne Columnist Rev. Al Sharpton […]
INDIANA — Republican Eric Turner recently introduced a bill that would make abortions illegal after 20 weeks instead of 24 weeks. ALSO READ: 25 Black Women You Should Know About When Democrat Gail Riecken proposed an amendment to that bill exempting women who are the victims of rape or incest, Turner countered by saying that […]