By The Admin on April 26, 2011
A U.S. appeals court is awarding death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal a new sentencing hearing in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
Tuesday’s ruling is the latest in the former Black Panther’s long-running legal saga.
The 58-year-old Mumia’s first-degree murder conviction stands in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner.
But the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
Posted in Featured, Pennsylvania
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Elected officials and educators in Ohio are working to honor a distinguished black soldier who died in 1922 by trying to preserve his home, which was a part of the Underground Railroad.
Col. Charles Young’s accomplishments included being the highest-ranking black officer in the military when World War I began, according to the National Park Service [...]
Posted in Ohio
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
The No. 3 Democrat in the House said Tuesday he believes Congress and the White House can find a consensus on tackling the nation’s growing indebtedness as long as “a lot of compassion” is brought to table.
But Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina told MSNBC that government safety-net programs like Medicare and Medicaid must not [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
BBC World Service
- Get Rich or Die Trying was a mantra coined by rapper 50 Cent – who did get rich, seriously rich, and who almost died in the process.
With fluctuating share and property prices, it is impossible to determine exactly how much any artist is worth at any particular moment.
But although 50 Cent’s estimated [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
California Watch
- Cancer patients who are racial minorities, especially black Americans, are more willing than their white counterparts to exhaust personal financial resources to prolong life, according to a study published today in the journal Cancer.
In a study of 4,214 people recently diagnosed with lung or colorectal cancer, including some in California, researchers at the [...]
Posted in Health, Race
