NEW YORK — Jared Williams, a former star baseball player for Wagner College in Staten Island, is blaming a racist New York City police officer for the demise of his baseball career. Williams claims that after he was falsely arrested by officer Michael Daragjati, he was kicked of his college baseball team and wasn’t allowed […]

WASHINGTON — Some 55 million Social Security recipients will get a 3.6 percent increase in benefits next year, their first raise since 2009, the government announced Wednesday.

TEMPLE, Georgia — Hip-hop star Soulja Boy proclaimed his innocence as he encountered dozens of screaming fans outside a bail bond company following his arrest on a drug charge in Georgia.

HAMPTON, Va.  — President Barack Obama is employing the services of the first lady on the final leg of his three-day bus tour as they tout proposals in the president’s jobs bill that the White House says would put more of the nation’s unemployed veterans back to work. The president’s day-long swing through Virginia also […]

GOP presidential contender Herman Cain stood by his comments made last week when he blamed the unemployed for their plight, at last night’s GOP Presidential Debate. At Tuesday night’s CNN debate, Cain stood by his comments — to loud cheers from the audience. “I still stand by my statement,” he said. “They might be frustrated […]

Latino groups across the country are furious with President Obama over his administration’s record amount of deportations in his first term in office. Close to 400,000 Latinos have been deported under Obama’s watch. At a gathering in New York on Monday, a Latino senior policy adviser for the Obama administration went on the defensive. “It’s […]

The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, an organization led by revolutionary communist Carl Dix, plans to protest against the New York City Police Department over its “Stop-and-Frisk” policy, citing that it unfairly targets blacks and Latinos. The protest will take place on Oct. 21 through a non-violent, civil disobedience demonstration outside of a Harlem police precinct. […]

This week, conservative-leaning, African-American columnist Juan Williams wrote an op-ed in The Hill defending the right to vote against states that are now imposing restrictive laws such as identification requirements. Citing the Brennan Center for Justice report that up to five million citizens could be denied voting privileges in 2012 due to new state rules, […]

A Chicago group is the newest collective of people tired of seeing underwear on their streets. Empowered Citizens of North Lawndale, a neighborhood group in Chicago, is calling on city leaders to make an amendment to indecent exposure laws that will make saggy pants illegal. The group says the trend is offensive and African Americans […]

WASHINGTON  — Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would raise taxes on 84 percent of U.S. households, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday, contradicting claims by the Republican presidential candidate that most Americans would see a tax cut. The Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank, says low- and middle-income families would be hit hardest, […]