Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss President Obama’s meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus and their attempts to push the President to do more for African-Americans. The CBC opposed the House Financial Services Bill by demanding more money verses not voting for it at all. As a result they obtained $4 billion in […]

Roland Martin talks with DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz about people thinking President Obama is a lock for the 2012 presidential election. Wasserman Schultz told Roland that she would “strongly caution them that is a very dangerous attitude …” Wasserman Schultz also addressed claims that President Obama is not doing enough for African-Americans. LISTEN: Tjms: […]

BALTIMORE, Md. — Ty Hobson-Powell made history Sunday when he walked across the stage as the youngest person to graduate from The University Of Baltimore, completing four years of college in two years. The Baltimore Sun reports: Hobson-Powell gave up a fledgling basketball career when he began college three years ago, commuted more than an […]

CHICAGO, Il. — A homeless man in Chicago named Curtis Jackson has given  thousands of dollars he earns panhandling to a struggling single-mother who lives out of a hotel room with her 10-year-old son. Fox Chicago News reports: Sandy’s Good Samaritan is Curtis Jackson, who’s been homeless since 2004. He pays for Sandy’s hotel room […]

CALIFORNIA — A woman was escorted off an Amtrak train on Sunday for speaking too loudly on her phone. Huffington Post reports: Lakeysha Beard, 39, was charged with disorderly conduct after she wouldn’t stop talking on the 16-hour trip from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon. The train was stopped short of its destination. Train operators […]

A young survivor of the bombing that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City has graduated from high school and will be attending college in the Fall. The Grio reports: Two-year-old Donquay Hammons was being taken from America kids daycare downtown — bloodied and injured from the Murrah federal building bombing across the street. […]

WASHINGTON — The government is giving Haitian immigrants who fled their island nation after last year’s devastating earthquake more time to live and work in the U.S. legally while their country rebuilds. The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it was extending a temporary protective status for qualified Haitian immigrants for another 18 months. It […]

While the admission from CNN Anchor Don Lemon that he is gay shocked many in the media world, many African Americans are concerned with Lemon’s comments concerning homophobia and misogyny in the Black community. Critics have pounced on Lemon claiming that he is perpetuating an unfounded stereotype that Blacks are more homophobic than other groups. […]

PHILADELPHIA — Four white Philadelphia teachers filed federal race-bias lawsuits that accuse a black principal of creating a hostile work environment and suggesting they were unfit to teach black children. The teachers work at a predominantly black elementary school that has a recent history of racial tension. Their lawsuits say that a former principal had […]

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kentucky man who was arrested after police burst into his apartment without a search warrant because they smelled marijuana and feared he was trying to get rid of incriminating evidence. Voting 8-1, the justices reversed a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling that threw out the evidence […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that it’s “more vital than ever” for Israel and the Palestinians to restart peace talks, as he plunged again into Mideast diplomacy with hopes of reaching an elusive accord. Addressing reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Obama said the U.S. would continue to […]

BEIJING – Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of “land mines.” About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected, losing up to 115 acres (45 hectares) of melon, China Central Television […]