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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart asked Tuesday that a federal judge throw out a defamation case that former government employee Shirley Sherrod brought against him. Sherrod was ousted from her job as a Georgia rural development official last year after Breitbart posted an edited video of her making supposedly making racist remarks. […]

WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Florida turned to email on Tuesday to call a Democratic colleague from the state “vile, despicable and cowardly” after she called into question his stance on Medicare during the debate over a spending cap and balanced budget bill before the House. Rep. Allen West, a first-term Republican from south […]

A Gary, Indiana man is suing a local blood bank for rejecting his blood sample because they thought he was gay. Pace, who is 22 and insists he’s straight, was rejected from giving blood by Bio-Blood Components Inc. in Gary, Ind. According to federal guidelines, gays are prohibited from donating blood dating back to 1983 […]

A Florida woman has taken her search for a kidney match to Craigslist. Selina Hodge, who has been on kidney dialysis for close to four years, has been unable to find a match. She is on a donor waiting list and it could take years before she is matched with someone. Read more at TheGrio […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he will veto conservative Republicans’ “Cut, Cap and Balance” fiscal plan if it makes it to his desk. A statement from the White House rejected the plan, which conditions a debt limit hike on a constitutional amendment that would require the government to balance its books each year. The […]

Civil Rights groups in California are fighting to protect Black representation amid redistricting of the political map. Los Angeles is emerging as an important political zone for minorities in the state. Many civil rights groups opposed the California ballot measures, arguing that the reforms could actually harm communities of color by making it too difficult […]

WASHINGTON — Declaring “11th hour” urgency” to raise the government’s borrowing limit, President Barack Obama on Tuesday hailed a plan by “Gang of Six” senators from both parties to reduce federal deficits as the kind of balanced approach that could break an economy-threatening deadlock. He said it was time for Congress as a whole to […]

NEW YORK — For weeks the media has been abuzz covering the story of Autum Ashante, a 13-year-old whiz kid who was accepted to the University of Connecticut, but later told by the university that her acceptance had been rescinded. Last week, NewsOne reported that Josephine Minnow, a UConn alumna started a petition to get […]

A Black guy and a skinhead walk into a bar. One of them ends up “on the rocks.” Daren Christopher Abbey, a self-proclaimed skinhead, wound up with facial fractures and unconscious, after being pummeled by a Black man he allegedly attempted to stab outside of an Idaho bar. The victim of the hate crime, Marlon […]

CHICAGO — Though Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center is ran by an African-American man and the majority of its employees and patients are Black as well, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a class-action suit for discriminating against Black, female employees. According to the lawsuit, Black female employees “were subjected to different […]

KANSAS CITY–An alarming murder reputation plaques the 64130 zip code area of Kansas City, earning the moniker “The Murder Factory.” While its 26,000 residents make up about 6 percent of the city’s population, it accounts for 20 percent of Kansas City citizens in prison for murder or voluntary manslaughter. Your Black World Reports: Victims ranged […]

CALIFORNIA — More than 1, 700 California prisons, held in maximum isolation units, have gone on a hunger strike in protest of their penance, which is met with no explicit crime. The strike began with inmates in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. Your Black World Reports: Their isolation, which can last […]