Milwaukee — A sign excluding black people from a future business is enraging some people in a small town. Now, the man who put it up is speaking out.
CHICAGO – The trial of a teen boy charged in the beating death of a 16-year-old Chicago honor student began Tuesday with jurors watching a video showing the teen punching the other boy in the face — a recording played around the world that drew attention to school violence. Prosecutors told jurors the teen was […]
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, died Tuesday after a six-year fight with cancer, her family said. She was 61. “Today we have lost the comfort of Elizabeth’s presence but she remains the heart of this family,” the statement said. “We love her and will never know […]
CANASTOTA, N.Y — Mike Tyson, whose meteoric rise to the pinnacle of boxing and stunning fall from grace was legendary, was selected Tuesday for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum. Three-division champion Julio Cesar Chavez of Mexico and Russian-born Kostya Tszyu, a junior welterweight champion, also were selected along with Mexican […]
Washington– President Barack Obama vigorously defended his agreement with Republicans to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts, arguing Tuesday that it was a price that had to be paid to spare the middle class from crippling tax hikes.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A contingent of U.N. peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux, who studied the outbreak for the Haitian and French governments, concluded that there was […]
Maryland — Russell Dickerson, III, a 19-year-old African-American man filed a federal lawsuit against the Aberdeen School District Tuesday, alleging he had suffered relentless racial and anti-gay bullying while school officials did little to stop it.
Ohio — Bertha Lewis, former CEO of ACORN has called Fox News television personality, Glenn Beck and other right wing pundits “political necrophiliacs” for their harsh criticism of ACORN after it had officially disbanded. The Huffington Post reports: “[After] beating us to death, right now, it’s not enough that ‘we won, we beat ACORN, we […]
From The Root Los Angeles — In a hilarious interview on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, comedian Louis C.K. discussed race and privilege, letting no one off the hook. When asked by Leno about his daughters, C.K. states that they’re “two white girls in America. They’re doing great.” He goes on to poke fun […]
WASHINGTON — A nonprofit group has complained to the Federal Election Commission that censured Rep. Charles Rangel of New York improperly paid legal bills from a political action committee.
Maryland – The Washington Washington Football Team have suspended DL Albert Haynesworth without pay for the team’s next four games for conduct detrimental to the club. He was notified of the club’s decision this morning by General Manager Bruce Allen at Redskin Park. Read The Whole Story RELATED STORIES Albert Haynesworth: I Refuse To Be […]
New York — In an what they call “Operation Ivy League,” five Columbia University students have been charged with selling marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy out of Columbia University dorm rooms by the NYPD. The New York Daily News reports: The undergrads sold nearly $11,000 in cocaine, LSD, marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs to undercover cops […]
