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June 3, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking to black pastors at a Congressional Black Caucus event designed to get out the vote this election year, warned his audience that the civil rights they enjoy are under attack.
June 3, 2012
The DA’s Dangerous Drug Offenders Unit has dismantled a major drug ring that has been trafficking cocaine from Manhattan and the Bronx into Philadelphia. Seventeen people have been arrested including a husband and wife team from Puerto Rico…
May 28, 2012
It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon. But according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn’t even exist.
May 28, 2012
A Michigan prosecutor has charged three young men in the assault and carjacking of popular Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans.
May 28, 2012
A few days ago, the news broke that Witness #6 had changed his story in the George Zimmerman case. In a shocking turn of events, three more witnesses have also changed their story, and their new version of events will likely be damaging to Zimmerman’s defense, according to the Chicago Tribune.
May 20, 2012
Mayor Michael Nutter, who has been known to DJ at political gatherings, and hip-hop mogul and business, man Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, announced the two-day Budweiser “Made in America” festival, which will take place on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway…
May 20, 2012
Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as “Last Dance,” ”Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girls” became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63.
May 20, 2012
Blacks were 55 percent more likely and Hispanics were about a third more likely to borrow money from their retirement accounts than their white and Asian counterparts, a report issued last month by the investment company Vanguard said.
May 14, 2012
With most of the precincts reporting Tuesday, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 61 percent of the vote to 39 percent against. North Carolina is the 30th state to adopt such a ban on gay marriage.
May 14, 2012
African-Americans voted 2-1 in favor of the North Carolina amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday, but the White House is betting that black voters there and beyond will stick with the president, despite broad resistance to legalization.
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