INGOGO VILLAGE, South Africa (Reuters) - Thousands of fans bade an emotional farewell on Sunday to South Africa’s top reggae star Lucky Dube, whose murder in an apparent botched carjacking stunned even a nation hardened to violent crime. …
Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes once ruled the drug trade in Harlem. They came out of retirement to talk business. Lucas hit the ultimate Hollywood jackpot, getting Denzel Washington, no less, to play him in American Gangster.
Morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, called “search and avoid” missions.
Private companies have more control over our personal information than we do, as the new book, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era, explains.
“CBS News RAW”: An anti-war demonstrator, shouting “war criminal,” approached Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she arrived to testify at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
Obama’s response to my call for him to reject support of Grammy winning singer and anti gay crusader, Donnie McClurkin was a big, bold, and direct claim that he will fight anti-gay phobia, and aggressively challenge religious leaders to do the same. One of those at the top of the list of religious leaders that he says that he challenged is McClurkin. But one line missing from his disavowal of gay bashing was this: “I will not appear on stage with Reverend McClurkin unless he publicly disavows his rabid anti-gay statements and crusade.”
As the number of prisoners in California prisons explodes, the state may soon spend more locking up its citizens than on public university education.
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama ripped a page straight from the Bush campaign playbook with his announced upcoming three date barnstorm tour through South Carolina with notorious gay basher, gospel singer Donnie McClurkin.
LAS VEGAS — This city, famous for being America’s playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the twin trends of data mining and high-tech surveillance, with arguably more cameras per square foot than any airport or sports arena in…
By Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Thousands of black men gathered on Sunday to launch a campaign to cut murders in Philadelphia, which suffers the highest homicide rate among big U.S. cities. Organizers of the drive to put at least 10,000…
Democratic lawmakers denounced federal authorities for failing to intervene in the Jena Six case, citing racist noose-hanging incidents far beyond the one in the small Louisiana town.
Cosby’s new book continues to tar black communities and the black poor as dysfunctional, chronic whiners, and eternally searching for a government hand-out.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) — Vernon Bellecourt, who fought against the use of Indian nicknames for sports teams as a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, has died at age 75. Bellecourt died Saturday of complications from pneumonia…
In interviews, black women in South Carolina expressed ambivalence over the two presidential candidates.
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