CHICAGO — Bria Fleming has been through a lot in the last year, including her mother’s hospitalization and job loss and a fire in their home. It’d be enough to get most 18-year-olds down.
WASHINGTON – Stepping up the pressure on Goldman Sachs two days after its executives were grilled and publicly rebuked by lawmakers, the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of the Wall Street powerhouse over mortgage securities deals it arranged.
WASHINGTON — Recognizing his debt to her quiet perseverance, an emotional President Barack Obama eulogized Dorothy Height as a humble champion of civil rights who deserved a seat of honor in American history.
HONOLULU — Hawaii legislators have passed a measure allowing a state agency to ignore repeated requests from a person or organization for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
Last Tuesday, we lost an American hero, Dr. Dorothy Height, who passed at the age of 98, this extraordinary woman, who was equally at home with the least of us and the greatest, befriended and respected by White House residents from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to President Barack Obama and all the presidents in between. […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there “may not be an appetite” in Congress to deal with immigration immediately after going through a tough legislative year.
NEW YORK — Evelyn Cunningham, a pioneering journalist who covered the birth of the 1960s civil rights movement and later served as an aide to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, died Wednesday. She was 94.
Roland talks with US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk about growing small businesses and getting Americans back to work through exports. President Obama has set a goal to double US exports in a effort to help create 2 million jobs. According to Kirk, 97% of companies that export are small businesses. If you have a product […]
From Laurel May @ 944.com: Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop has teamed up with Harvard Law-based think tank, The Jamestown Project to present its fifth annual national discussion tour. These townhall-style meetings will bring together a panel of leading hip-hop activists, artists and experts for public dialogue exploring the possible ways hip-hop’s entrepreneurial spirit […]
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Transit workers are rallying in the nation’s capital to call for more support of mass transportation. The rally will be held at Upper Senate Park in northwest Washington on Tuesday afternoon. Click here to view photos. Organizers say the Rev. Jesse Jackson will join transit union leaders, Metro employees and other transit […]
Roland Martin and Mary Matalin take on the day’s top news stories. In part one of today’s edition of M-Squared, Martin and Matalin discuss Wall Street, ethics and the Goldman Sachs trial.
as a rule, i'm always a little leery of Blacks that are endorsed by whites.