Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Commissioner Richard Ross By Denise Clay You would probably think that there’s not a whole lot that the President of the NAACP and the President of Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police could agree on. But the fact that Minister Rodney Muhammad, president of the Philadelphia NAACP and John McNesby, president of Philadelphia’s FOP…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Eddie Hood speaks during an interview at his home in Rome, Ga., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The Supreme Court appears troubled by the actions of a Georgia prosecutor in disqualifying all the black prospective jurors from the death penalty trial of a black teenager who was accused of killing an elderly white woman….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Protesters march against police shootings and racism during a rally in Washington, DC on December 13, 2014.  (Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com)   By Jesse J. Holland associated press WASHINGTON — Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African American millennials indicated they, or…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sunny Fowler speaks during a rally on Oct.18, by University of Mississippi students calling on the university to remove the Mississippi state flag from university grounds, in Oxford, Miss. Student senators at the university voted Tuesday night, Oct. 20, to ask the school administration to remove the Mississippi flag from campus because it…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This three image combo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student on Monday, Oct, 26, 2015, shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields trying to forcibly remove a student from her chair after she refused to leave her high school math class, in Columbia S.C. The Justice Department opened a civil…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 5th Annual Concordia Summit Oct. 1 in New York. Biden decided not to campaign for the presidency in 2016, with not enough time to ‘mount a winning campaign..’  (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) By Josh Lederman ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s storied political career will come to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Russell Simmons (shutterstock) Thousands cut from their money for more than a week by glitch with Russell Simmons’ RushCard By Ken Sweet Associated Press NEW YORK — Thousands of customers of pre-paid debit cards backed by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons remain without access to their money more than a week after technical problems…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  People cheer during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Washington. Waving flags, carrying signs and listening to speeches and songs, the crowd gathered at the U.S. Capitol and spread down the Mall under on a sunny and breezy…

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Nation of Islam invited thousands to 20th Anniversary of Million Man March By Minister Louis Farrakhan Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from JusticeorElse.com The following is an open letter to America from the chief organizer and visionary, Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan. In it, he outlines the meaning of the demand…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Background photo by f8grapher / Shutterstock.com) By Eric Tucker Associated Press WASHINGTON — Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners, according to an Associated Press review of court records. Many defendants cleared for early…

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