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WASHINGTON – Grasping for the electric energy that propelled him to the White House, President Barack Obama whipped up young supporters at a rally Thursday night, where the boisterous crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap” among Democrats. “I’m back here today just in case you’ve forgotten what it feels like […]

Fannie M. Richards was born (1841). She became an educator and civil rights activist. Black and white abolitionists smashed into a courtroom at Syracuse, NY, and rescued a fugitive slave (1851). John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University (1868), the first in a black school. Morgan State College was founded […]

James Meeks is chair of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, and chair of the Illinois Senate’s education committee. With the decision by Mayor Richard M. Daley not to seek reelection in Chicago next year, the potential field of candidates who hope to replace him could make for an interesting campaign. Congressmen Danny Davis and Luis […]

The body of Tyler Clementi was found in the Rutgers suicide near the Hudson River.   A body fished from the water north of the George Washington Bridge was identified Thursday as Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who killed himself after his sex life was exposed on the internet. The 18-year-old New Jersey man was […]

According to the arrest citation, Alur was treating a wound on the victim's pelvic area when the incident happened. The report stated, "While he was treating her, he pushed her pants and underwear down and performed oral sex on her. She told him to stop and had to push him away." The citation also stated Alur admitted to the offense and said, "He was distracted and tempted and that caused him to do this."

The city has told 200 families on the brink of homelessness to fend for themselves in an experiment that has cruelly turned them into virtual lab rats.

The White House says President Barack Obama will make a personnel announcement Friday. It’s widely expected to be the departure of his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart has won some high-level backing for his “Rally to Restore Sanity” next month in Washington: President Barack Obama. Stewart says the Oct. 30 rally is for people who think the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard. Obama raised the subject of the rally during a round-table […]

NEW YORK – Police say a man suspected in two knifepoint holdups died when he fell from a moving subway train he’d tried to jump on to flee from officers. Twenty-year-old Bryan Feeley fell onto the tracks and was hit by the train early Thursday. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Police say […]

Feds claim men lied under oath about convention center shooting. Two New Orleans police officers were charged Thursday with lying under oath about the shooting death of a man outside the city’s convention center in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, the latest case generated by a broad Justice Department probe of the police department.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson has a good article at the Grio on Kentucky GOP Senate candidate, Rand Paul and his relationship to the white supremacist community. Rand Paul was previously criticized for having a white supremacist, Chris Hightower, as a campaign operative and for criticizing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his father, Ron Paul […]