Bloody Sunday: President Obama Delivers Rousing Speech
United States President Barack Obama spoke today in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. to commemorate the anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday,'...
Edward Brooke: First Elected Black U.S. Senator Dies
NBC News is reporting that Edward Brooke, the first African-American in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday.
The Republican senator,...
VIDEO: Brawl Breaks Out in Parliament Over Passage of Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Law
New anti-terrorism law requires journalists to get approval from police before publishing or broadcasting stories, imposes anti-stripping sentence and says terrorist suspects can be...
Illinois Legislation Would Make Recording Police a Felony
The Grio is reporting that the Illinois House Senate has passed legislation that would make it a crime to record any "private" conversations, especially...
George Stinney Jr. Exonerated: 14-Year-Old Executed for Crime is Cleared
NBC News is reporting that 70 years after South Carolina executed a 14-year-old boy so small he sat on a phone book in the...
US and Cuba to Start Talks to Normalize Relations
BBC News is reporting that the US and Cuba are to start talks to normalize diplomatic ties in a historic shift in relations between...
Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair Delivers
Ebony Magazine is undeniably one of African American culture’s most influential and immediately recognizable brands. For seven decades, the brainchild of iconic entrepreneur, John...
Albuquerque Police Department: Is Brutality the Norm?
Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic is reporting that the Albuquerque Police Department is one of the most brutal police departments in the country, routinely...
Marion Barry: DC Begins Three-Day Farewell to Former Mayor
Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post is reporting that Washington, DC will begin a three-day farewell ceremony in honor of former mayor and current...
Kenya: Amid al-Shabab Massacre, Security Chiefs Replaced
BBC Africa is reporting that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has replaced his interior minister and police chief following a massacre by Islamist group al-Shabab....
