AFGHANISTAN — Sgt. Edward J. Frank II was killed by a bomb while in Afghanistan on his first tour of duty there along with four other soldiers. Frank had previously served in Iraq for two tours of duty after joining the army in 2005. The Grio reports: Frank’s awards and decorations include two Army Commendation […]

DECORAH, Iowa-President Barack Obama had a heated exchange with a Tea Party supporter while on a Midwestern tour promoting rural economic policies. The Tea Party activist took offense to Vice President Joe Biden’s statement that Republicans were holding the economy hostage, which many Republicans have misquoted as him calling Tea Party Republicans, terrorists. The Huffington […]

Cornel West’s repeated attacks on President Barack Obama are creating a divide within the Black community. Several African American activists who support Obama fear that his attacks will lead to apathy in the Black community and low voter turnout. West is currently on a “Poverty Tour” with fellow Obama critic, radio and TV personality, Tavis […]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry took blows at both President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the Iowa State Fair on Monday. “Mr. President, you need to free up the employers of this country to create jobs.” Perry called on Obama to “free up this country” from “stifling regulation.” “I’m a pro-business governor, I […]

LONDON — British police have charged a 16-year-old boy with murdering a retiree during an attack by rioters in London last week, as the government said officers would get better training and stronger powers to deal with a new and unpredictable era of street disturbances. The boy, who can’t be named because of his age, […]

  Roland Martin talks with Attorney Winston Thompson about the racially motivated murder of 49-year-old James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi. TJMS: White Teens Beat, Run Over And Kill African-American Man In Jackson, Mississippi by Roland S Martin on Mixcloud

The Cascade United Metodist Church of Atlanta recently gave struggling Morris Brown College a lifeline, when they donated $22,000 to school. The money, which was raised during a month-long fundraising effort, helped the school eliminate its hefty debt to the U.S. Department of Education. Rev. Dr. Marvin Moss said they couldn’t let a historic part […]

PHILADELPHIA — The painful images and graphic stories of repeated violent assaults and vandalism by mobs of black teenagers had gotten to be too much for Mayor Michael Nutter. As an elected official and a “proud black man” in the nation’s fifth-largest city, Nutter felt he had to go a step beyond ordering a law […]

San Francisco’s mass transit system, BART, closed all four of its stations in downtown San Francisco on Monday evening due to protests. Groups protested yesterday against the BART’s decision to cut underground cellular service for three hours last Thursday night in an effort to stop a possible protest over the  July 3 slaying of a […]