From Newsweek: All of us, together, with a few simple keystrokes and mouse clicks, can make things happen.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she and President Barack Obama have agreed to try to work together on a solution to the nation’s immigration and border security woes. Brewer also says Obama assured her that most of the 1,200 National Guard troops he is sending to the southern border will be coming […]
From CNN: Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Ronide Baduel keeps a broken teacup tucked away for safekeeping. One day, she will look at it, maybe even smile, and recall how life’s rhythms shifted with the earth in January.
From CNN: In the weeks since an oil rig exploded and later sank into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has dealt with the tragedy with his signature cool, calm and collected approach.
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Ebony magazine has named Amy DuBois Barnett, former deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, as its new Editor-in-Chief, the publisher announced today. Linda Johnson Rice, chairman and CEO of Ebony publisher Johnson Publishing Co., and daughter of the founder, told the Sun-Times today that she wants Barnett to enhance Ebony as a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stung by a series of inquiries, nearly half the members of the Congressional Black Caucus want to scale back the aggressive ethics procedures that Democrats trumpeted after gaining control of Congress. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and 19 fellow black lawmakers in the all-Democratic caucus quietly introduced a resolution last week that would […]
From the Chicago Sun-Times: The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the Gulf Coast oil spill is a result of the federal government’s weak enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws.
WASHINGTON — Paul McCartney had been itching to perform a certain song at the White House, and he seized the moment when it arrived.
From BlackVoices.com: On the heels of the Detroit police shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones and the investigation of Bed-Stuy’s 81 precinct in Brooklyn for their overzealous tactics in arresting people who aren’t doing anything wrong comes the news that Federal authorities are reviewing a 15-year-old African-American boy’s claim that Indianapolis police beat him so badly […]
