Week In Review

Kelvin A. Jeremiah, a 13-year housing veteran, has been selected to be the President & CEO of the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Effective immediately, Mr. Jeremiah will continue in his role overseeing the day-to day operations at the 4th largest housing authority in the country.

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The Senate’s Republican leader Mitch McConnell called them modest. House Speaker John Boehner isn’t sure the cuts will hurt the economy. The White House’s top economic adviser, Gene Sperling, said the pain isn’t that bad right now.

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A Mississippi congressman on Tuesday asked the FBI to review the slaying of an openly gay mayoral candidate to determine if any federal laws might have been violated. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson’s district includes Clarksdale, where Marco McMillian was running. McMillian, 33, was found slain last week in a rural area nearby.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 will be on trial again this week when the United States Supreme Court hears Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, on Feb. 27. In April 2010, Shelby County, Ala., a largely White suburb of Birmingham, Ala., filed suit in federal court asking that Section 4 and 5…

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Joint Center President and CEO Ralph B. Everett joined a meeting of prominent African American leaders at the White House yesterday to continue a discussion with President Barack Obama on his plans to strengthen the middle class and provide opportunities for those…

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Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., holding back tears, entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. He faces 46 to 57 months in prison under a plea deal with prosecutors.

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Robin Roberts made her return to ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday, five months to the day after receiving a bone marrow transplant and a year since she started feeling symptoms of the ailment that has sidelined her since August.

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Police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters in their manhunt for a revenge-seeking ex-cop. They had no idea he was hiding among them, holed up in a vacation cabin across the street from their command post.

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When a rapper says he’s gonna “pop a pill” then “beat that p*ssy like Emmett Till,” that’s when we know that he might have gone just a little bit too far. But that’s just what happened this week, and the Till family isn’t happy.

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Dr. Arlene Ackerman, the former superintendent of the Philadelphia School District, died on Saturday morning. Her son, Anthony Antognoli, told the Associated Press that Ackerman died at about 5 a.m. of pancreatic cancer in Albuquerque, N.M., where she lived. He said she hadn’t been ill long and “it was too short a battle.”

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