By The Admin on December 26, 2010
President Barack Obama capped a quiet Christmas Saturday with a surprise visit to a Marine base to thank U.S. troops for the sacrifices they’ve made, including being away from their families at the holidays.
The president, along with his wife, Michelle Obama, spent more than an hour shaking hands and hugging service members who had arrived [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on December 26, 2010
WSMV
- Nashville’s NAACP wants to have a sit down meeting with the mayor and police chief about what they call a “chronic problem” with recruiting and promoting black officers.
“Whatever it is they are doing is not working,” said Walter Searcy of the Nashville NAACP.
Nashville NAACP legal chairman Walter Searcy said while the Metro Police Department [...]
Posted in Tennessee
By The Admin on December 26, 2010
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has largely avoided the public eye of late, said in a rare interview Saturday that he is a public servant, not a perfect one, and didn’t rule out a future run at higher office.
Jackson, who has been dogged by links to the corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod [...]
Posted in Congress, Illinois
By The Admin on December 24, 2010
Illinois state Sen. James Meeks withdrew his candidacy for Chicago mayor on Thursday, and he urged other African-American candidates to follow his lead and rally what he called a divided black community around a single candidate.
The surprise Christmas week announcement came a day after he met to discuss the idea of a unity candidate from [...]
Posted in Illinois
By The Admin on December 23, 2010
New York Gov. David Paterson commuted the sentence Thursday of a black man imprisoned for the racially charged shooting death of a white teenager on Long Island, a decision in the final days of his administration that infuriated the lawyer who prosecuted the case.
Paterson said the five months John Harris White has served was enough [...]
Posted in New York
