(June 27, 2009) - The shocking death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has left legal minds to ponder the fate of his three young children, his estate and the career-revitalizing tour he planned to launch this summer.
(June 27, 2009) - The racially-charged “Jena 6” case came to a quiet end Friday as the remaining five young defendants accused of beating a classmate accepted a plea deal. The five—Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw—pled no contest to charges of misdemeanor simple battery before a judge in Jena, La. on Friday.
(June 26, 2009) - U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. ( D-Mich.), did not shy away from blasting his Republican colleagues for not supporting President Obama’s healthcare plan at the Lighting the Night, Equality ’09 rally Wednesday at Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza.
“Some of my colleagues are taking lots of money from the insurance industry,” said Conyers .
(June 25, 2009) - Pop singer Michael Jackson, one of the most recognized faces in entertainment, has died after suffering cardiac arrest, TMZ.com reports.
(June 24, 2009) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday delivered what one political analyst called a “smackdown” to detractors of his tempered response to the Iranian government’s brutal crackdown on the thousands of citizens, who over the past 10 days, took to the streets in post-election demonstrations.
(June 24, 2009) - The Prince George’s County Board of Education will consider a resolution to name an elementary school after President Obama on June 25.
(June 24, 2009 - A late-day commute Monday aboard a metro rail system in northeast Washington, D.C., turned into a nightmare for passengers and crew members after one train plowed into the back of another. The crash killed nine people and injured scores of others.
(June 21, 2009) - Two young, Southern members of the Congressional Black Caucus are making notable progress in their quest for statewide offices.
(June 20, 2009) - African-American men are finding it harder to get a job during this recession and their prospects may not get better anytime soon.
(June 20. 2009) - Racism directed at Black women may cause higher obesity rates among that group, according to a new study conducted by scientists at Boston University.
(June 20, 2009) - The leader of one of the nation’s leading organizations supporting Africa will step down on Dec. 31.
(June 19, 2009) - In an emotionally charged eulogy that took place on a radiant afternoon, Stephen Tyrone Johns, the special police officer who was slain a week ago at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, was remembered as a gentle giant with a big heart and warm smile.
(June 18, 2009) - If you’re thinking about heading to Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Fourth of July weekend festivities, T.C. Copeland, president of the event promotions firm Black College Reunion Entertainment, wants you to hold that thought.
(June 18, 2009) - The services for the late Stephen Tyrone Johns have moved locations due to the large number of mourners expected.
(June 18, 2009) - The wife of one of the longest-serving members of Congress and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus has been experiencing legal troubles for possibly accepting money illegally from a businessman.
(June 17, 2009) - To stem the tide of hate crimes in the country, a civil rights organization has joined forces with a prominent Jewish group to support fighting hate crimes.
(June 17, 2009) - Republicans are lining up behind a pointed political attack line: President Barack Obama is nationalizing American industry and socializing medicine.
(June 17, 2009) - On the 45th anniversary of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law honored Microsoft Corp. for excellence in diversity at its 10th Annual A. Leon Higginbotham Award Dinner in New York earlier this month.
(June 14, 2009) - Violence still rumbles through the streets of Iran’s capital a day after the country’s embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a disputed election over reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
(June 13, 2009) - During his first 150 days in office Barack Obama has spent plenty of time overseas. But now, he’s dispatching several of the biggest financial donors from his presidential campaign around the globe to highly coveted, plum ambassadorships in Africa, Europe, the Mideast, Latin America and the Pacific.