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WASHINGTON  — Herman Cain on Thursday became the first Republican presidential candidate to receive Secret Service protection. Cain asked for the security and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and congressional leaders approved his request Thursday, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed. There have been threats against Cain, who had been experiencing a bounce in the […]

Vincent M. Keenan, Detroit political activist and proponent of the recently adopted new city charter, writes in the HuffingtonPost that the beleaguered, nearly-bankrupt metropolis has just turned a very important corner: Last Tuesday, the new Charter was adopted. It contains ethics reform and enforcement and anticipates policing the complexities of public-private partnerships like the Woodward […]

Video of President Obama calling America a “bit lazy” is the new engine behind GOP attacks. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry both ripped Obama this week for his remarks, which he made during a speech during last week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Hawaii. Although Obama was referring to America’s pursuit of […]

Herman Cain’s damage control strategy with the media might just be causing more damage for him in the key first primary state of New Hampshire, with the campaign blowing off a scheduled interview with the state’s largest paper, the conservative New Hampshire Union Leader. Union Leader editorial page editor Drew Cline tweeted late Thursday morning […]

Cornel West, the public intellectual, activist and Ivy League professor, is taking a “significant pay cut” to leave Princeton and return to where he began his teaching career: Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. See Also: Black Travel: Five Tasty Brooklyn Brunch Spots See Also: Are Kermit And Miss Piggy Dating In […]

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters clashed with cops this morning throughout lower Manhattan after attempting to march toward the New York Stock Exchange as part of a massive citywide demonstration marking two months since the movement began. The protest had begun peacefully, but quickly grew tense and escalated as cops made 100 arrests when a […]

Jacksonville’s first Black mayor Alvin Brown is describing himself as the “Jobs Mayor.” The mayor has launched a high-profile campaign to attract international and domestic investors and companies considering a move or expansion. In the three months leading to the end September, Mayor Alvin Brown took eight trips to locations throughout the country to meet […]

Marlon Brown is not unlike the vast majority of educated, ambitious and twenty-something African-American men. He excelled at school, gained a degree in political science followed by a Masters, and now works as a budget and policy analyst for the State of Michigan. What makes him stand out is that he is an albino. See […]

PANAMA CITY, Fla — LB Williams, a 50-year-old Black man, is being charged with burning a cross in his own driveway in an attempt to save his marriage. Williams, who is married to a white woman allegedly burned the cross in his driveway and left a note saying “better not leave that [N-word].” See Also: […]

Campus administrators and officials at an upstate New York university are investigating several racist signs that have popped up on campus this semester. SUNY New Paltz, one of the state of New York’s many universities, has recently been bombarded by racist signs most notably, one by a water fountain that harkens back to the Civil […]

MIAMI  — The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it will investigate whether Miami police violated the civil rights of seven African-American suspects fatally shot by officers in an eight-month span. Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, and Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said the probe will focus on whether there was a “pattern […]

NEW YORK — Members of the Occupy Wall St. movement protested at the New York Stock Exchange this morning on the two month anniversary of the start of the movement. Hundreds of members protested and more than 50 were arrested. The protest failed to delay the opening of the Stock Exchange. See Also: Bradley Cooper Named […]