By The Admin on June 29, 2009
The 19th century founders of British investment bank Rothschild and top law firm Freshfields engaged in business linked to the slave trade, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing new research.
The news could prove contentious in the United States, where both firms operate and where numerous banks and other bodies have been pressured to make [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Race
By The Admin on June 29, 2009
CBS
- A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex.
Frank Mccorkle Lombard, the school’s associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday, June 24 after an Internet sting, according to the FBI’s Washington field office and the city’s police department.
A confidential informant claimed to have [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
By The Admin on June 29, 2009
Michael Jackson’s father Monday denied making a bizarre plug for his record label during a red carpet appearance, insisting he had only been responding to a question about his future.
The 79-year-old patriarch Joe Jackson — who had an uneasy relationship with his iconic son — triggered howls of protest on Sunday when he appeared to [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on June 29, 2009
City councilwoman Monica Conyers resigned from office Monday, days after admitting in court that she accepted bribes from a company in exchange for her vote on a lucrative city sludge-treatment contract.
Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers who was voted into office in 2005 largely on his name, submitted her resignation in a [...]
Posted in Michigan, State & Local News
By The Admin on June 29, 2009
Frances Rice
- “Why Is the Black Vote in the Democrats’ Pocket?” That is the title of an article by Juliette Ochieng which provides an analysis of why Republicans are having very little success attracting more blacks into the Republican Party. The article can be found on the Internet at: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-is-the-black-vote-in-the-democratic-pocket/
Ochieng opines that [...]
Posted in Party Politics
