Detroit — Though entertainment and sports superstars like Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tiger Words have served as effective spokespersons for General Motors, the real stars of GM work behind the scenes and have engineered its renaissance and resurgence. Rolling out spotlighted some of the major players who have led the automotive colossus through its metamorphosis, […]
San Francisco — JOSEPH Bramlett has become the first African American to successfully advance through the final stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying School in 25 years. The 22-year-old from California is also the first African American to join Tiger Woods on the main American circuit during the Woods era. Bramlett shot a closing four-under-par […]
New York — The New York Daily News is reporting on an incident where a Queens, New York woman, Ann Stanczyk is claiming that she was beaten by NYPD for not picking up dog feces when asked to. “They saw my dog and they said I didn’t clean up,” said Stanczyk, fighting back tears as […]
There was a time when my daughter and I could never see eye-to-eye. Â We fought regularly, and even had times where we didn’t speak. Â Through the struggle, it was the most prominent part of our joint DNA that made us the most contentious. Everyone could see how much we were alike: we think the same, […]
MILWAUKEE– It wasn’t the 23 years behind bars that made Robert Lee Stinson’s prison sentence so agonizing. Nor was it the humiliating treatment by prison guards.
Greenwood — USA Today is reporting on an incident called a suicide by authorities, that the NAACP thinks may actually be a lynching. The county sheriff says that a 26-year-old black man, Frederick Jermaine Carter, found hanged from an oak tree in Greenwood, Miss., apparently committed suicide, but the president of the local NAACP challenges […]
WASHINGTON — House Democrats gathered in the Capitol Tuesday evening to debate the tax-cut deal President Barack Obama struck with Republicans, but as it turned out, they were already in agreement to an extent rarely seen on the left side of the lower chamber.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Government-backed candidate Jude Celestin and former first lady Mirlande Manigat will advance to a second-round runoff in Haiti’s presidential election, officials announced Tuesday as furious protests led by supporters of the third-place contender broke out in the capital.
Washington — Even in the best of economic times, it is toxic to American fairness to shrug off any job disparities to favor the financial interest of wealthy people. But in down times like these, when the gulf between haves and have-nots has grown so wide and the impact on our minority communities is so […]
Iowa — As if the November fourth quarter collapses weren’t enough for the Iowa Hawkeyes, tonight there’s even more disappointment for this 2010 team. On Tuesday evening, Iowa Hawkeye senior wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos (DJK) was arrested by Iowa City police on a bevy of drug counts: possession of controlled substances, keeping a drug house […]
