Examiner: Judge grants city more time to prepare for civil rights case
A federal judge Thursday granted the city two more months to produce disciplinary files sought by black officers who claimed they faced racial ...
Archive for April 10th, 2008
The Times-Picayune: The Essence of New Orleans
The 2008 Essence Music Festival will resonate with the sound of its host city. Irma Thomas, jazz trumpeters Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Va. man’s video wins CNN project
What it means to be black in America is a complicated issue for Richmond-area resident Jermaine Fletcher. The topic made Fletcher the winner of ...
LA Times: A soap opera’s healthy message
The doctors had been after Loretta Ragland for years to keep her diabetes in check. Eat right. Exercise. Lose weight. She'd heard it all time and ...
State Journal Register: Ann Coulter: How will Obama deal with ‘typical Iranian leader’?
Since a Chinese graduate student at Columbia University, Minghui Yu, was killed last Friday when black youths violently set upon him, sending him ...
Washington Times: Mind your children until TV cleans up its act
I know you know that lewd lyrics and bad booties are the staple of video music programming on cable, right? I also know that you know that you have ...
Pocono Record: NAACP holds formal Saturday
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Monroe County branch will hold its 2008 Spring Formal Affair on Saturday from 7 to ...
The State, S.C.: Boost black-owned businesses to bolster state’s economy
IF SOUTH CAROLINA is to reach its full economic potential, it must help black-owned businesses grow.. . That's a key headline from the final ...
FOX 45 Baltimore (WBFF): Lieutenant Governor speaking at Harvard University
Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown will be speaking at Harvard University today.. He's delivering the opening keynote speech to the Black ...
Washington Times: Report rips adult content in rap videos
Three music-video shows that air during daytime or early evening hours are heavily laced with sexual imagery, explicit language, violence and drug ...
Winston-Salem Journal: Benefit to All Today’s society was shaped by work of black university students, WSSU told
Back when the Rev. Jesse Jackson was running for president in 1988, a farmer in the Midwest told him that the country wasn't ready to elect a black ...
Hollywood Reporter: Eyewitness to Murder — The King Assassination
6 and 9 p.m. Thursday, April 3 CNN In America, for every great historical tragedy, there is at least one conspiracy theory. I'm not sure when this ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: MPS joins nation’s testing
The Nation's Report Card" is going to start giving grades for Milwaukee Public Schools.. . Milwaukee was named Thursday as one of seven urban ...
Greensboro News-Record: Wray hired to oversee transportation security in Tenn.
Former Greensboro Police Chief David Wray has a new job working for the Transportation Security Administration in Tennessee.. Is this a good job ...
LA Times: A health message listeners can relate to
The doctors had been after Loretta Ragland for years to keep her diabetes in check. Eat right. Exercise. Lose weight. She'd heard it all time and ...