By The Admin on April 24, 2010
Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick violated terms of his probation by failing to report assets and turn over tax refunds, a judge ruled Tuesday, strongly suggesting he may send him to jail when he’s sentenced next month.
Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner said Kilpatrick could remain free on bond pending his sentencing on May 25, and [...]
Posted in Michigan, State & Local News
By The Admin on April 24, 2010
Sheri L. Parks, Baltimore Sun
- Dorothy Height, the grande dame of the civil rights movement, died recently in Washington after a long illness. She was 98.
Mrs. Height, as everyone called her, was a force in the black civil rights movement for 60 years, 40 of them as the president of National Council of Negro Women.
In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on April 23, 2010
It’s down to the wire: With a few days left before final mail-in results are tallied, nearly three-fourths of U.S. households have returned their census form.
But many fast-growing states in the South and West still lag in participation. Results from the decennial head count are used to apportion seats in the U.S. House and [...]
Posted in Federal Government
By The Admin on April 23, 2010
ABDON M. PALLASCH, Chicago Sun-Times
- Why should an African-American vote Republican?
“You really don’t have a reason to, to be honest — we haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,” Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night.
Steele — a former Maryland lieutenant governor and seminarian [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on April 22, 2010
Aaron Cooper, CNN
- Three men were sentenced to prison for forcing an African-American man out of a South Carolina convenience store, threatening him with a chainsaw and stealing his car, an incident the Department of Justice said was fueled by hate.
Thomas Blue Sr., 49, owner of the convenience store, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
