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September 23, 2011
Citing doubts about his guilt, national leaders of the NAACP and Amnesty International led hundreds in a protest Friday against executing the man a Georgia jury said killed a Savannah police officer in 1989. Amnesty International declared a Global Day of Solidarity for Troy Davis…
September 18, 2011
While the country’s unemployment rate stands at 9.1 percent, black unemployment has hit 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984. Unemployment among male blacks is at 18 percent, and black teens are unemployed at a rate of 46.5 percent.
September 12, 2011
The Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, a Bethlehem, PA, casino and entertainment destination, today announced the start of construction of an Event Center to open in May 2012. The plans currently include 50,000 square feet of flexible multi-purpose space, allowing the resort to accommodate…
September 12, 2011
President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said.
September 4, 2011
Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton, who was suspended from the league for having guns in a locker room with teammate Gilbert Arenas, was arrested Monday in Southern California to face a murder charge in a deadly Atlanta shooting.
September 4, 2011
The former leader of an Oakland-based community group was sentenced to life in prison for commiting three murders, including the first american journalist to be killed in 10 years. Bey was the head of Your Black Muslim Bakery, the black empowerment group his father formed in the 1960s.
September 4, 2011
Maya Angelou says a recently unveiled monument to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is inscribed with a quote taken out of context that makes the reverend seem “arrogant.” I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness, the inscription on the 30-foot-tall statue of King reads.
August 28, 2011
Taking the microphone at a church in a predominantly black neighborhood of Miami, the Rev. Jesse Jackson asked how many in the crowd knew someone looking for a job. Most of the several hundred people in the televised town hall gathering stood up. How many knew someone facing foreclosure?
August 28, 2011
The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine last Tuesday. Frightened office workers spilled into the streets in New York, and parts of the White House, Capitol and Pentagon were evacuated.
August 21, 2011
Mayor Nutter said the first weekend of an earlier curfew for all minors went well except for one incident after a city-sponsored bowling party in an area outside the new curfew enforcement zone. The Mayor also called upon the business community to support positive youth development activities…
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