All posts on August, 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) _ Police are using the promise of a stimulus check to make some arrests. Authorities in Fort Lauderdale say they sent letters …

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) _ Naveed Khan of Waterbury and his three children won’t eat food or drink water for 15 hours today, or any day, …

CHICAGO (AP) — The glass-topped casket that displayed lynching victim Emmett Till’s disfigured body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil …

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Charlie Crist has chosen his former chief of staff to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez.

Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men, striking approximately 200,000 men each year. African-American men are at the highest risk.

We in the United States have been debating causes of, and responses to, climate change for some time.  Now, we are at last beginning to …

I often marvel at the hypocrisy that bubbles to the surface of American discourse and discussion when addressing issues of crime and punishment. For example; …

It’s 2009, and black people are running! Most of us are running for our lives, but many African Americans are already running for elected office …

PAHOKEE — It’s a long road from Padgett Island, a housing project in the rural town of Pahokee, Florida, all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania …

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) — The greatest heights eluded Ted Kennedy over a lifetime of achievement and pain. No presidency. No universal health care, chief …