Posts by Member

The Gould School of Law held a panel discussion on civil rights on Monday featuring actress and alumna Daniele Watts, who was involved in a controversy after she was arrested for lewd conduct in a Sep

The question of who ordered the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is a vital one, and thousands of pages have been written on the issue. Those who dismiss the notion that the Unit

Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about

HOUSTON – A local woman has a warning for social media users after she said she was targeted by a scam artist with a wild story. Jennifer Murphy says she is determined to make sure it doesn't happ

Centuries before Ebola, Cotton Mather faced down another global epidemic with a health tactic from abroad. Cotton Mather’s successful smallpox campaign was based on inoculation advice he received f

DETROIT (WXYZ) - The State of Michigan is ordering a Detroit man to pay tens of thousands of dollars, or go to prison. The reason? He owes back child support for a child that everyone agrees is not hi

New York (CNN) -- A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, a law e

St. Louis (CNN) -- Activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West was among an estimated 10 people arrested at the "Moral Monday" march in Ferguson, Missouri, event organizer Andrew Kling sai

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT October 9, 2014 Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an Afric

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT October 9, 2014 Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an Afric

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died Tuesday morning, the hospital said. Duncan may have contracted the virus in Liberia while taking a deathly ill

October 3, 2014 The Liberian taxi driver who drove Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan with his sick pregnant friend said the lady was so sick, “she was not able to walk by herself.” It is beli

American White Supremacy and Racial Domestic Abuse By Robert Muhammad -Guest Columnist- | Last updated: Oct 2, 2014 - 8:08:48 PM (FinalCall.com) Doesn’t it seem rather strange that during a time

(Click to enlarge) SAD TRUTH...

From AlterNet.org October 1, 2014 We look at the incredible story of how a 16-year-old high school sophomore from the Bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at the Rikers jail i

Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan: Ebola Was Manufactured to Kill Blacks by Warner Todd Huston 2 Oct 2014 Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation if Islam, is warning his acolytes that E

Gina and Pat Neely, the stars of Food Network's popular cooking show "Down Home With The Neelys," are getting divorced after two decades of marriage. The duo, whose empire consists of a TV show, c

DALLAS (RNN) - A patient is being evaluated for “potential Ebola Virus disease … based on the patient's symptoms and recent travel history,” a Texas hospital said Monday. Texas Health Presbyterian

Cameron Tillman, a high school freshman, was shot dead around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday after police responded to an abandoned house in Houma, in Terrebonne Parish. Three others were arrested and one person e

CNN--Starting next year, the Confederate flag will no longer be available for sale or on display at government agencies in California. Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that prohibits selling

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GSdzJlK99Fo?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> An NYPD officer was caught on a disturbing video tackling a clearly pregnant woman and riding her to the ground early Saturday in Brooklyn. The recordi

(CNN) -- Police say a Savannah, Georgia, police officer killed a handcuffed, armed man Thursday as the man tried to break out of a patrol car, a shooting that stirred up citizens and prompted the mayo

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Leaders and officials who met with a Nation of Islam delegation embraced the movement, its mission and its leader during a visit to this Caribbean nation to officially announce the

On October 16th, 1995 close to two million Black men answered the call of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to be present at the Million Man March in Washington D.C. The purpose of this monumental event was for Black men to: 1.Recommit themselves to being better fathers, husbands, brothers, so