(CNN) — A Harvard-trained biology professor is facing murder charges in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, police said early Saturday. Authorities said Amy Bishop wounded three other employees Friday. She was arrested outside the sciences building where the shooting occurred, authorities said
http://www.hkonj.com/ Durham, NC) National NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous and N.C. NAACP President William J. Barber will conduct a statewide press conference in Estey Hall on the campus of Shaw University on Saturday, February 13 at 10:45am following their meeting with representatives of the Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HK on J) Coalition and area NAACP […]
http://www.blackplanet.com/Charlie_Wiggins/ Charlie Wiggins grew up in a segregated Evansville. The KKK had come to power in Indiana and in 1924 would win every elected office at the state level. D.C. Stephenson, the head and organizing force of the Klan, was an Evansville resident. There was even talk of building a city on an Ohio River […]
Cite: http://www.hkonj.com/ When we, especially us in the South, get bogged down in political and emotional debates about whether or not we should have diversity in our public schools . . . Whether we should be segregated or integrated? . . . Whether we should have high concentrations of poverty in certain schools?. . . […]
Washington (CNN) — More than 2 feet of snow piled up at the nation’s capital as a blizzard pounded mid-Atlantic states Saturday, cutting power to hundreds of thousands in the region in what the president referred to as “Snowmaggedon.” Snow fell from southern Indiana eastward to New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the New Jersey […]
Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Charges relating to Michael Jackson’s death will be filed Monday, prosecutors said. Friday’s announcement by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office did not say what the charges would be or who would be charged Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician when he died last summer, had planned to surrender […]
New Delhi, India (CNN) — The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an Indian island chain for around 65,000 years has died, a group that campaigns for the protection of indigenous peoples has said. Boa Sr, who was around 85 years of age, died last week in the Andaman islands, about 750 […]
It was a party in the WPGC studios Friday morning, because after 32 years on Washington’s airwaves, radio personality Donnie Simpson is signing off. Celebrities from across the country called in to say farewell and thank you to the radio pioneer. Simpson began in radio as a teenager in Detroit before coming to Washington. He […]
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack of space, a White House spokesman said Saturday in response to reports of a dispute over who would pay for patients’ care. “There has been no policy decision by anyone to suspend evacuee flights — […]
(CNN) — A planned tribute to Michael Jackson at the upcoming 52nd annual Grammy Awards will feature the first-ever 3-D performance on an awards show. Grammys executive producer Ken Ehrlich said a 3-D mini-movie created for Jackson’s “Earth Song” will be presented as part of a tribute performance featuring Smokey Robinson, Usher, Celine Dion, Jennifer […]
(CNN) — Police have identified human remains found buried under recently added concrete at a home in Plant City, Florida, as missing lottery millionaire Abraham Shakespeare, police said Friday. Dr. Dollete White of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s Office made the identification. CNN affiliate WTSP reported that the remains were identified from fingerprints.
By Associated Press Site: http://newsone.com/nation/associated-press/teen-violinist-says-police-beat-him-and-tore-off-dreadlock/ PITTSBURGH – The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head. Now, 10 days after […]