Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Cuban-Americans celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in the Little Havana area in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) By Curt Anderson, Ian Mader and Tamara Lush Associated Press MIAMI — Wearing his “Bay of Pigs Veteran” shirt, 80-year-old Rafael Torre stood amid hundreds of Cuban-Americans celebrating the death of Fidel…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Gwen Ifill  (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) By Errin Haines Whack Associated Press WASHINGTON — Thousands of mourners — including first lady Michelle Obama — remembered and celebrated veteran Washington journalist Gwen Ifill on Saturday, recalling her as a standard bearer, cherished friend, devoted mentor and woman of abiding faith. Ifill died last…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. Danny Davis-D-Ill  (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Associated Press CHICAGO — A dispute over shoes led to the fatal shooting of the grandson of Illinois U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, Chicago police said Saturday. At least two attackers went to the home of 15-year-old Javon Wilson in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago…

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By Charlene Crowell TriceEdneyWire.com Perpetrators in a mortgage fraud scheme that targeted Black consumers in the Los Angeles area have been sentenced to federal prison and fined.  On October 24, United States District Judge S. James Otero sentenced Paul Ryan, a former mortgage loan officer and mortgage broker Chester Peggese for illegal activities that operated…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Johnthony Walker  (Insert: Chattanooga Police Department) By Jonathan Mattise Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.  — A school bus driver who authorities say was speeding along a narrow, winding Tennessee road when he wrapped his vehicle around a tree was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide in the deaths of five children. Calling the Monday…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Philando Castile  (AP photo) Kyle Potter and Amy Forliti Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn.  — A Minnesota police officer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of a black man in a St. Paul suburb, prosecutors announced Wednesday. St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, 32, during a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Cornell William Brooks BALTIMORE– NAACP National President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement regarding the results of the 2016 presidential election: “Even as we extend our congratulations to President-Elect Donald J. Trump, the NAACP, as America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, must bluntly note that the 2016 campaign has…

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By Kimberly Roots yahoo news PBS political reporter and vice-presidential-debate moderator Gwen Ifill passed away from cancer Monday in hospice care. She was 61. In April, Ifill took a leave from her position as the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” and co-anchor of “PBS Newshour” to address some health issues. At the time,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Customers buy products at the Harvest Medical Marijuana Dispensary in San Francisco.  (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File) By David Crary associated press Filling a void created by congressional inaction, voters in a scattering of states tightened gun control laws and approved increases in the minimum wage. The campaign to legalize marijuana achieved a major…

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ABOVE CARTOON: Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas associated press NEW YORK — On the eve of the election, Hillary Clinton was standing behind a podium bearing the presidential seal. By the time the votes were counted, Donald Trump had captured the White House in a political earthquake. Clinton conceded the presidency…

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