Politics

Stalking charges against Marion Barry have been dropped by the U.S. Attorney’s Office after further review of the evidence. The former D.C. Mayor and current Washington councilman had been charged with misdemeanor stalking of his ex-girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighthaupt on Saturday by U.S. Park police. Barry stated that the incident “caused great pain” to him, his […]

GOP Representative of Iowa, Steve King, was the only congressman to vote “no” against a plaque, to be placed in the Capitol, recognizing the history of slave labor. His vote of opposition stood alone against a cause that was, otherwise, overwhelmingly easily approved. The House of Representatives voted 399-1 for the Capitol Visitor’s Center to […]

Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager have dug up bodies from their graves at a historical Black cemetery located south of Chicago. They are currently facing felony charges. According to authorities, more than 100 graves have been dug up. The group, allegedly lead by the former manager, developed a scheme where they would be able […]

On Wednesday, Massachusetts sued the U.S. government and challenged the moral rights of a federal law that defined marriage as just being a bond between a man and a woman. On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. It will also be the first state to step up and challenge […]

The men of Phi Beta Sigma are hosting their National Conclave this week in New Orleans, Louisiana and according to sources within the fraternity, a vote by several members of the brotherhood will see some very influential men voted into their ranks very soon. Former President and notorious philanderer William Jefferson Clinton was the first […]

Barack Obama’s oldest daughter, 11-year-old Malia, made her own anti-nuclear statement when she rocked two peacenik t-shirts in Rome. Malia wore the t-shirt with the logo famous for Nuclear Disarmament as her father, President Obama, preps for three days os G8 talk in Italy. Her fashion/political statement came just two days after President Obama signed […]

Justice has finally prevailed for one of the oldest and shadiest cases the justice system had to offer. California state prosecutors elected to drop their case against four of seven men accused in the grisly murder of a San Francisco officer of the peace nearly forty years ago. Henry Jones, 73, Ray Boudreaux, 66, Richard […]

Two Chicago men are free after spending twenty years in jail for a crime they did not commit. According to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, charges were dropped against 42-year old Ronald Kitchen and 50-year old Marvin Reeves. After a re-investigation of the case it was determined that there was a lack of credible evidence […]

The Atlanta police department was ordered to release records to a citizen board reviewing the shooting death of 92 year old Kathryn Johnston and unarmed robbery suspect Pierre George Tuesday morning. However in a failed attempt to cover their A$$, The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, an Atlanta police union, filed a lawsuit Monday morning […]

Darryl Littlejohn, 44, has dug his own grave and has now been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the murder of a graduate student from Boston, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. Convicted Wednesday, Littlejohn was charged with first-degree murder last month in a case that spanned back to 2006 which […]

In further investigation of the murder of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, the case has been ruled as a murder-suicide. Police have stated that Sahel Kazemi, 20, the girlfriend of McNair shot him in his right temple and then placed three more shots into him. Due to a lack of defensive wounds, they added that […]

Instances of minor racial skirmishes and extreme racial intolerance have risen greatly since the election of America’s first Black President. From the eastern seaboard to the west coast, Black people and African-Americans have been on the receiving end of what some would suggest is a symbolic beating. Police brutality is at an all-time high as […]