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Rescuers achieved a key breakthrough in efforts to rescue 33 trapped miners on Friday, reaching the caverns where they are imprisoned with a bore hole that will now be widened so that they can be pulled to freedom.

The head of the NAACP urged Mississippi’s governor on Tuesday to pardon two black women who are serving life in prison for their role in an $11 armed robbery.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate finally passed the small businesses bill, which will return to the U.S. House of Representatives, where it is almost assumed it will pass and make its way to the president’s desk. For much of the summer, there was much stalling and lack of compromise mostly by the Republicans that prevented […]

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert plan dueling rallies on the Washington mall on Oct. 30.

Given the suggestion that President Obama might be a drag on the ticket in blue state Connecticut – which hasn’t elected a GOP Senator since 1982 – you might wonder just how busy the president’s campaign schedule will be.

Dear Senator Feinstein and Senator Hatch, Societies are judged on how they treat their elderly, their sick and their children.  For far too long we have failed all three.  The two of you have the opportunity and the responsibility to take a step in changing this course by passing the Youth PROMISE Act.  I write […]

Well, this week we celebrate four giant letters, folks… H– B – C – U.  That’s right, each year in mid-September, we recognize National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.

By Hakim Hasan: Dr. Ronald Walters, 72, one of the foremost authorities on Black-American politics, died on Friday (September 10) of cancer.  He was born on July 20, 1938 in Witchita, Kansas, a grim period in American life when blacks could not vote and were subjected to blatant racism. This, undoubtedly, shaped his lifelong and […]

Roland Martin joins JKUSA with host John King, Joe Johns, Dana Bash and Erick Erickson to discuss Newt Gingrich’s controversial comments regarding President Obama. WATCH: Roland Martin Says Steele Doing ‘Butt Dance’ Defending Gingrich