Man arrested after telling children Santa isn’t real
DALLAS (AP) – Police say a 31-year-old protester who told children Santa Claus is not real has been arrested for trespassing at a North Texas …
‘Fresh Prince’ STAR REID FOCUSES ON HER CREATIVE LIFE
LOS ANGELES – When Daphne Maxwell Reid filmed a scene that required her to dash through woods and across streams, the younger actors scrambling alongside …
Pope urges charity when churches are sold, reused
Photo Credit: AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia ROME – The Vatican and bishops from Europe and beyond have developed proposed guidelines for the sale or reuse …
WHO says it can fight Ebola outbreak despite U.S. withdrawal
Photo Credit: AP Photo GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Monday it can fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo …
National fraternities, sororities sue Harvard over controversial single-sex rule
PHOTO COURTESY OF HARVARD.ORG CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Several national fraternities and sororities sued Harvard University Monday over a 2016 rule that discourages students from joining …
Africans played key, often unheralded, role in WorldWar I
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT WAR PROJECT JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Amid the fanfare marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, little …
Arkansas’ capital city could elect black mayor for first time
PHOTO COURTESY OF YOUTUBE.COM LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Voters are casting ballots in an election that could result in Little Rock’s first popularly elected …
Caucus pushes to raise the age for buying tobacco to 21
PHOTO COURTESY OF TWITTER The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland is concerned about the toll smoking has taken on the African-American community and is leading …
GROUPS OPPOSE PLANTATION EXHIBIT COMING TO DETROIT MUSEUM
PHOTO COURTESY OF WORLD HISTORY DETROIT (AP) – A coalition of community groups is opposing a planned Thomas Jefferson Monticello plantation exhibit coming to Detroit. …
U.S. coal consumption drops to lowest level since 1979
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are consuming less coal in 2018 than at any time since Jimmy Carter’s presidency, …