Haiti-Electoral Impasse
By DAVID McFADDEN PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President Michel Martelly is defending much-criticized elections in divided Haiti and asserts that the opposition has spread unsubstantiated allegations …
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NAACP statement on Grand Jury decision in fatal shooting of Tamir
BALTIMORE, MD – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President and CEO Cornell William Brooks today released the following statement regarding the …
Building a bigger tent? GOP faces minority challenge
By STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON — The faces of the Republican Party’s most ambitious members are changing. Long criticized as the party of old …
Police killings of blacks voted 2014 top story
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK — The police killings of unarmed blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere – and the investigations and …
Happiness in a juice box
The year 2014 was a rough one, or maybe those are just the not-so-distant memories of it. “We” lost the U.S. Senate, rogue white police …
Ministry serves during holidays and beyond
RIVIERA BEACH — Typical of many similar efforts throughout South Florida this season, the U.S. Marine Corps and a local nonprofit helped hundreds of kids …
Make economic justice 2015’s New Year’s resolution
In recent months the groundswell of activism regarding black America’s lack of criminal justice has become nearly daily headline news. Demonstrations spanning the nation and …