UNITED NATIONS — This week’s offer by Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo’s top three generals to surrender evidently was a “trick” to buy time, the head of U.N. peacekeeping said Friday. U.N. peacekeeping director Alain Le Roy told reporters after briefing the Security Council Friday afternoon that Gbagbo and his military men apparently used Tuesda […]

By Richard Nieva William Bell still can’t sleep at night. “It’s not easy,” said Bell, the father of Sean Bell, the 23-year-old groom-to-be gunned down outside of a Queens night-club in 2006 on the night of his bachelor party by a team of plainclothes policemen. This revelation came during a panel on violence and grief […]

ATLANTA — Authorities say rapper Gucci Mane has been arrested in a greater Atlanta suburb and charged with battery. Jail records show Mane, real name Radric Delantic Davis, was booked Friday into the DeKalb County Jail. A police report says a woman waiting for a mall store to open early Jan. 28 was approached by […]

Roland Martin talk with Harold Lewis a franchisee and a member of the BMOA (Black McDonald’s Operators Association) about McDonald’s announcement to fill 50,000 jobs on April 19th, 2011. According to Lewis McDonald’s hopes to fill a wide variety of positions ranging from entry level to management and corporate positions. LISTEN:

President Obama speech at the National Action Network’s Keepers of the Dream Gala. WATCH:

Texas A&M Aggies Coach, Gary Blair joined Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss how massive cuts in education spending are affecting Title IX programs and women’s sports. LISTEN:

BEIRUT — A mass protest calling for sweeping changes in Syria’s authoritarian regime turned bloody Friday, with the government and protesters both claiming to have sustained heavy casualties as the country’s three-week uprising entered a dangerous new phase. Human rights activists and witnesses said Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters […]

It’s important that we understand just how messed up Africa is. It’s important that any bad news from Africa become big news.

NEWNAN, Ga.  — Movie mogul Tyler Perry delivered on a Christmas promise when he handed the keys of a new four-bedroom house to an 88-year-old woman who lost her rural Georgia home to a fire.

The proposed GOP budget cuts that may cause a veto from President Barack Obama and cause a government shut down would have big affect on the Black community as well as Hispanics and the Urban Poor. One the biggest pushes by the GOP is to cut funding for Planned Parenthood. Despite the GOP’s demonization of […]

By Richard Nieva NEW YORK — A schism between old and new forms of Black media broke open today at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 2011 National Action Network convention over the issue of Black ownership of media.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A weather forecaster says he may have to live off the money he’s been setting aside for a Caribbean vacation. A worker in Washington hopes to polish his resume so he can retire from public service and work in the private sector. An accountant wonders if she can put off her […]