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ATLANTA — Georgia’s pardons board rejected a last-ditch clemency plea from death row inmate Troy Davis on Tuesday despite high-profile support from figures including the pope and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die Wednesday by injection for […]

RICHMOND — If you’re looking for some clues to your ancestry, you may find them in Virginia. The Virginia Historical Society has launched a new database with over 1,500 searchable slave names. The database, Unknown No Longer, which appears on their site, can find the slave names based on keywords such as name, gender, location, occupation and plantation. […]

Documents in a Jacksonville, Florida case where a 12-year-old killed his 2-year-old brother for irritating him show their mother surfed the Web for hours while her child lay unconscious. According to the documents, Biannela Susana, the mother of the two boys, surfed the Web looking for information on “when someone gets knocked out” and concussions. […]

ATLANTA — Supporters of Troy Davis made a last-ditch effort Monday to stop his execution for the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, asking the Georgia pardons board to grant him clemency. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which has the power to change death sentences but rarely does, did not issue […]

The NAACP has given a man who was convicted of a murder in 1992 an academic scholarship, numerous news sources reported Monday. Over two decades ago, Bruce Reilly, 38, was convicted of murder after he stabbed and Emerson College professor, Charles Russell, to death. Reilly plead no contest to second-degree murder and robbery and spent […]

According to a Wall Street Journal article from 2008, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s former campaign manager Kent Snyder, died of pneumonia in 2008 because he didn’t have any health insurance. The resurfacing of this article comes on the heels of Paul’s statement last week at the Tea Party debate about individuals with no health […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. space officials say they expect a dead satellite to fall to Earth in about a week. NASA has been watching the 6-ton (5.4-metric ton) satellite closely. On Friday officials moved up their prediction for its arrival to Sept. 23, give or take a day. RELATED: Next To Last Space Shuttle Lands On […]

LAKELAND, Fla. — The man accused of killing his wife and then shooting two church pastors had pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 10 years of probation in 1987 in the slaying of a previous wife, according to court records. Jeremiah Fogle, 57, is charged with murder and attempted murder after Sunday’s shootings. Authorities said […]

NAACP Joins The Fight To Save Troy Davis ATLANTA— Supporters of a high-profile death row inmate were making a last-ditch effort Monday to stop his execution for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer, asking the Georgia pardons board to grant clemency the 42-year-old who insists, along with others, that he is innocent. The […]

NEW YORK — Reggae star Denroy Morgan was arrested in the Bronx after police claimed they found him with 25 pounds of marijuana in his car. Morgan is the father of the popular reggae group, Morgan Heritage. The arrest of the 66-year-old Morgan led to the apartment he was coming from being raided. Police claim […]

The White House recently rejected a bid to posthumously pardon Marcus Garvey. The campaign, led by a Jamaican lawyer in Florida, would overturn Garvey’s 1920s mail fraud conviction that imprisoned the Black leader for almost three years before he was released and deported to Jamaica. Garvey, who led the greatest mass movement of Blacks in […]

Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy. Also read: Chicago Soul Food Restaurants Disappear As Black Residents Leave With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example. “I know that […]