Amid the next crop of recipients to be awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama — a list that includes African-American luminaries such as Maya Angelou and Bill Russell — is a rather curious entry: George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the father of the man that President […]

In his farewell speech, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), the only African American in the Senate, said it was “troubling” that when he leaves at the end of the month, there will be no blacks when the new Senators are sworn in next January.

National (TheRoot)– Forty-four-year-old Cassandra Jackson recently returned home to Chicago from Memphis, Tenn., in hopes of upgrading her quality of life and beating the odds faced by so many single African-American mothers: finding a job.

Cleveland (GackSports)–Cleveland radio show “Rover’s Morning Glory” has hired a witch doctor to put a curse on LeBron James. The witch performed the hex on air early Tuesday morning. Apparently WMMS-FM was spurned to hired the witch doctor after, you guessed it, “The Decision.” The station said the witch used bones, blood, and a LeBron […]

WASHINGTON (HuffPo) — Two of the top consultants in the Democratic Party leveled unusually blunt criticisms on Thursday over what they deemed a “total mis-framing” of an economic message by the Obama White House.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (NBC)–A Columbus father who is accused of slamming his infant son to the ground faces murder charges.

NELSON MANDELA, seeing the consummation of the cause for which he sacrificed 27 years of his life, joined F W de Klerk and 19 other South African leaders Last night at a ceremony to ratify the country’s first democratic constitution. Breaking with 45 years of apartheid and three centuries of colonial injustice, the constitution starts […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police say they have reassigned a plainclothes officer and launched an investigation after the officer was shown on a convenience store video kicking a 17-year-old boy in the groin during an Oct. 18 arrest. In a statement on their blog, police said they learned about the officer’s action Wednesday. They say […]

Texas (HuffPo)– Texas State Representative Leo Berman (R) furthered his campaign against President Obama Tuesday, a man that he has before characterized as “God’s punishment on us,” by introducing a bill that would require future presidential and vice-presidential candidates to produce “the original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen” […]

By Michael Tapia— Has chemistry been included to Miami’s curriculum, is the question everyone is asking after Chris Bosh finally left his mark as a Heat. Can we finally say that we’ve seen Miami’s big three potential combined in a one performance? If so, can we expect the worse? After Bosh dropped 35, LeBron James […]

WASHINGTON — The House ethics committee’s chief counsel recommended Thursday that veteran Rep. Charles Rangel be censured for financial and fundraising misconduct as lawmakers neared closure on an embarassing 2 1/2-year-long scandal.

Roland Martin appears in The Situation Room with Leslie Sanchez and host Wolf Blitzer.