By The Admin on June 28, 2011
St. Louis American
- The Bible is filled with characters who started out on shaky ground – Paul, David and Solomon, among them – before being transformed into epic figures. But it seems that Black leaders who dare to criticize President Obama don’t get second chances. Instead, they are the object of widespread ridicule and condemnation.
I [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on June 28, 2011
Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins rose to fame as an actress, singer and member of the popular 90s musical group TLC – all while quietly battling sickle cell disease. Now, she is lending her famous voice to encourage people, especially those in the African American community, to join the Be The Match Registry® as potential bone marrow [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on June 28, 2011
A San Francisco Bay area transit agency Tuesday agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white transit officer in 2009.
The settlement between Bay Area Rapid Transit and Wanda Johnson resolves a $50 million wrongful death and civil rights suit filed in federal [...]
Posted in California
By The Admin on June 28, 2011
In a victory for President Barack Obama, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to approve U.S. participation in the military campaign against Libya and Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.
The 14-5 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee stood in sharp contrast to the House’s overwhelmingly rejection of a similar step last week, muddling the message about congressional support [...]
Posted in Congress, International News, Military, White House
By The Admin on June 28, 2011
Atlanta Post
- Though obscenely high, chronic unemployment in the black community is anything but new. Even during President Clinton’s wonder years when there were few mainstream complaints about the economy, the unemployment rate for young black males was double and sometimes triple that of white males, The Huffington Post reports. And during President Obama’s first [...]
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