Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Ray Nagin. (AP photo)   By Kevin McGill associated press NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted Wednesday on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work while he was in office, including…

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The estate of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is asking a judge to force the civil rights icon’s daughter to relinquish her father’s Nobel Peace Prize and “traveling Bible.” The complaint against Bernice King was filed Friday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta…

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They fought for democracy in a segregated army and marched as conquerors into a country in ruins. Finding a “breath of freedom” in post-World War II Germany, African-American soldiers experienced for the first time what it felt like to be treated as equals—and returned home determined to change their country.

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The mall where a Maryland teenager gunned down two people before killing himself was set for a somber reopening Monday under increased security as police worked to figure out why the shooting took place and whether the gunman knew either victim.

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That was the general sentiment expressed by Black economic activists in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech this week – a speech that surpassed previous SOTUs in dealing with economic woes that disparately affect African-Americans and other people of color.

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Black media outlets want the nation’s tobacco companies to run court-ordered advertisements in their publications as part of a lawsuit charging that the industry lied about the dangers of smoking.

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African literary light Binyavanga Wainaina says he’s known he was gay since he was 5 though he did not have a homosexual encounter until he was 39. To celebrate his 43rd birthday, the prize-winning Kenyan has published an online essay telling the world that he is gay.

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How low can you go? Dr. Bernice King had the unfortunate experience of seeing her idolized father’s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., face superimposed on the image of a street hood sporting a huge gold chain and making a gang sign gestures under the party headline “Freedom to Twerk.” 

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A federal judge denied preliminary approval of a $765 million settlement of NFL concussion claims, fearing it may not be enough to cover 20,000 retired players. U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody asked for more financial information from the parties, a week after players’ lawyers filed a detailed payout plan for her review.

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Comcast Corp. already built the tallest skyscraper in Philadelphia. On Wednesday, it announced plans to build an even taller one. The Philadelphia-based media giant said it plans to build a $1.2 billion, 59-story technology center that will rise 1,121 feet next to the existing Comcast Center…

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