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NEW YORK — Reggae star Denroy Morgan was arrested in the Bronx after police claimed they found him with 25 pounds of marijuana in his car. Morgan is the father of the popular reggae group, Morgan Heritage. The arrest of the 66-year-old Morgan led to the apartment he was coming from being raided. Police claim […]

The White House recently rejected a bid to posthumously pardon Marcus Garvey. The campaign, led by a Jamaican lawyer in Florida, would overturn Garvey’s 1920s mail fraud conviction that imprisoned the Black leader for almost three years before he was released and deported to Jamaica. Garvey, who led the greatest mass movement of Blacks in […]

Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy. Also read: Chicago Soul Food Restaurants Disappear As Black Residents Leave With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example. “I know that […]

A re-emergence of Squeegee men, panhandlers who wash the windshields of your car in hopes of a small tip, is signifying desperate times for the jobless in New York City. Groups of men are now flocking to the busy streets of Manhattan to make a few dollars, as many jobless did back in the 1980s […]

CHICAGO — Police are searching for Soulchartirya Terry who was last seen in her military uniform leaving Phoenix Military Academy on Campbell Ave in Chicago. Terry has been missing for a week now and police are actively looking for leads. RELATED: 12-Year-Old Girl Solves Crime When Police Couldn’t RELATED: Family Blames Police After Missing 12-Year-Old […]

LITTLE ROCK- — In Little Rock Arkansas where the Little Rock 9 fought to desegregate schools in 1957, schools once again have a segregation problem. Three school districts in Arkansas today are fighting for provisions that came from the struggle of the Little Rock 9. RELATED: Mississippi Schools Still Segregated Despite Court Order BET reports: […]

A class action lawsuit is being brought against the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a prominent Baltimore medical institute, for alledgedly knowingly exposing hundreds of Black children to lead poisoning as part of a study. “Children were enticed into living in lead-tainted housing and subjected to a research program which intentionally exposed them to lead poisoning in […]

OAKLAND PARK, Fla. — Five sisters face criminal charges after a brawl aboard a school bus in South Florida. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the fight began when an 11-year-old girl got into a fight with another girl at a bus stop Sept. 7. Authorities tell the Sun Sentinel that the 11-year-old left, but […]

Rev. Al Sharpton called on mourners at the funeral of a Brooklyn mom who was killed by a stray bullet as cops waged a gun battle with an ex-con to “stop the shooting.” RELATED: Sharpton wants NYPD to answer for shooting of woman killed by stray bullet “Somehow you must reach inside you and stand up […]

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas now has her own postage stamp. It’s the 34th in the post office’s Black Heritage series. Jordan served three terms in Congress and in 1976 was the first woman and the first African-American to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic national convention. She described Americans […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of violent crimes fell by a surprisingly large 12 percent in the United States last year, a far bigger drop than the nation has been averaging since 2001, the Justice Department said. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported there were 3.8 million violent crimes last year, down from 4.3 million […]

Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s the foundation of our justice system, built to serve and protect the wrongly accused. But in the case of Troy Davis, it’s a principle that has been defied, ignored and trampled on. Davis has captured considerable attention because of the doubt raised over whether he killed Mark MacPhail in […]