By The Admin on May 31, 2011
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Sarah Ryley
- He might just be America’s most corrupt mayor.
Sure, Keith Conway may only have run tiny Kinloch — a cash-starved municipality of 298 people outside St. Louis — but according to federal charges, public records and multiple sources, the extent to which Conway has fleeced city coffers and abused his office would [...]
Posted in Missouri
By The Admin on May 31, 2011
In 2008, Barack Obama tapped into a record of nearly 15 million voters who cast ballots for the first time, a surge in registration that may be difficult to replicate next year.
Recent voter registration data show that Democrats have lost ground in key states that Obama carried in 2008, an early warning siren for the [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections
By The Admin on May 31, 2011
Lenni Brenner
- If you asked today’s American college students when the civil rights movement began, most would say “when Rosa Parks disobeyed a bus driver’s order to give her seat to a white.” She was arrested on December 1, 1955. On December 5th, after her trial and the first day of the Black bus boycott, [...]
Posted in BPOTW Guest Submissions, Policy & Issues
By The Admin on May 30, 2011
PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network’s website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about a recent “Frontline” investigative news program on WikiLeaks.
PBS confirmed Monday that the website had been hacked. The phony story had been [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on May 30, 2011
Black Voice News
- Many would agree the Black middle and upper classes have contributed greatly to the success of the American society during the last century, but questions still linger as to whether or not they are doing enough for the rest of Black America.
And, there is the issue of whether giving money is enough, [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Policy & Issues, Race
