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by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call SACRAMENTO – Hundreds gathered in front of the California state capitol April 23 to remember their murdered loved ones during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. But, some whose family members died in police violence, foster care, and other killings rallied with this specific message: [...]
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Seventeen people, including eight ministers, civil rights leaders, and students, were arrested for a prayerful protest at the state legislature in Raleigh on April 29, 2013 .They promise to return again. The activists were handcuffed and taken to jail while they sang and prayed in front of the locked chamber doors of [...]
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Tuesday that he recused himself last year from any involvement in an investigation of national security leaks. Holder also announced Tuesday that he has ordered an investigation to see if there were criminal violations in the Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of [...]
71-year-old Stanley Martin, a member of the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department, died early Monday morning, May 6, fighting a fire at the home of Otis Robinson on Hwy. 11 about a mile out of the city limits of Eutaw. The one-story brick home was considered a complete loss. According to Robinson, the fire began some [...]
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t speak much on the job, but during an interview last month at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh, Pa., he offered some candid insight into his thoughts about politics and President Barack Obama. Asked if Obama’s election as the first Black president came [...]
By JACK ELLIOTT JR. PARCHMAN, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday’s scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case, intervening hours before he was set to die for the slayings of two college students. Manning, who had challenged errors involving evidence analysis, was originally set to [...]
By Al Jazeera English, 21 April 2013 The number of detainees taking part in a hunger strike at the US-run Guantanamo Bay military prison has grown to 77, an increase of 25 in just the past few days, according to a US military spokesman. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House said in a statement that of the [...]
By Jonathan P. Hicks, BET The father of Hadiya Pendleton said that the failure of the Senate to pass a measure that would expand background checks for gun purchasers was nothing short of an act of cowardice on the part of elected officials in Washington. “It’s very, very disappointing to know that it is going [...]
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget focuses on job creation, strengthening the middle class, and cutting the deficit. Those are the overall themes of the proposed budget, which seeks to reduce the deficit by $4 billion, President Obama sticks with his State of the Union promises [...]
New America Media, News Report, Lisa Song, MAYFLOWER, Ark.—Nearly a week after an oil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Ark., residents of this community of 2,200 are still overwhelmed by the disaster that has upended their lives. “All of us are in shock,” said David Fox, the pastor of First Baptist Church. “Manmade disasters are so [...]
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