A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated.
Reverend Joseph E. Lowery will give the benediction speech at Barack Obama’s inauguration in January. Lowery was the pastor of the Warren Street United Methodist Church, in Mobile, Alabama from 1952 until 1961, the apex of the Civil Rights Movement.
Public colleges created during segregation to provide blacks an education denied to them by white institutions are at the center of a budget battle brewing in Georgia.
The historical campaign provided a lot of people to put their take on the election through video editing. Here are some of the most entertaining videos from the election season.
Jesse Jackson Jr. recently contacted CNN anchor Roland Martin to reject being called an informant. CNN had reffered to him as an informant against embattled Governor, Rod Blagojevich.
The BBC is reporting that there is strong evidence that many adults and children are being used as slaves in Darfur. They also report that the Sudanese army has been abducting young women to use as sex slaves.
Gov. David Paterson’s first state budget threatens to affect just about every New Yorker. Even those online. Paterson proposed Tuesday a 2009-10 budget that would increase spending by 1.1 percent, or $1.3 billion, to create a $121.1 billion spending plan.
From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/opinion/17kenney.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=53025145Q2FJQ3BXbJSmQ51o2mmQ2AQ20JQ20Q7BQ7BQ2FJZQ20JZ1JmsQ60eQ60meJZ1jXeeX9Q3FxQ2AQ7CY" target="_blank">John Kenney</a> at The New York Times: Shoes are the ultimate insult? Try waffles (if you're in France.) And in Boston, they throw Yankees memorabilia. In NY, you're lucky if anyone pays attention to you.
President-elect Barack Obama had just one disclaimer when he announced former pro-basketball player Arne Duncan as his education secretary: “I did not select Arne because he’s one of the best basketball players I know.”
In not-so-surprising-but-still-relevant news, Time magazine has chosen Barack Obama as its Person of the Year in 2008.
