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May 28, 2010BY JENNIFER DOBNER PROVO, Utah (AP) — Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, has died after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He wa...
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May 27, 2010 BY BRIAN HICKS THE POST AND COURIER Charleston was in ruins. The peninsula was nearly deserted, the fine houses empty, the streets littered with the debris of fighting and the ash of fires that had burned out weeks before. The Southern...
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May 27, 2010 San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris is a candidate California Attorney General. When Harris won election as San Francisco’s District Attorney in 2003, she became the first African American female to ever hold the post of Dist...
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May 27, 2010 THE SOUTHLAND City Council Approves $6.7 Billion Budget (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has approved a $6.7 billion budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year that eliminates 761 jobs, unless concessions are made by the city’s unions. ...
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May 27, 2010 BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON When a little white girl goes missing, online news, supermarket tabloids and cable network stations bombard us with up-to-the-minute dispatches on the crime, the victim, her shattered family and anguished community. ...
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May 27, 2010 BY ATTORNEY WILLIAM K. HAYES People have many different reasons to do estate planning. Some people plan diligently and well in advance of any urgent need. Other people procrastinate and plan only when things are thrust upon them. What ar...
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May 27, 2010 Notre Dame Honors School’s 1st Black Valedictorian SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The woman believed to be the first black valedictorian in the University of Notre Dame’s 168-year history challenged her classmates to make a difference in t...
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May 27, 2010 By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul may or may not learn what his father Ron learned. And that is: When you pop off on the always-thorny issue of race, there’s a consequence. The horrid thing is that the co...
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May 27, 2010 BY ELIAS FEGHALI Fixing our broken immigration system is vital to America’s economic recovery. As our economy shrinks, state governments are desperate for revenue. Without additional sources of funds, they are increasingly making the de...
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May 27, 2010 Association, Wells Fargo Look for Excellent Entrepreneurs (NBMBAA) — The National Black MBA Association and Wells Fargo have joined together to reward business owners that demonstrate the vision, leadership, innovation and perseverance ...
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May 27, 2010 By BRAD PYE JR. Notes, quotes and things picked up on the run from coast-to-coast and all the stops in between and beyond. With Dwight Howard hitting for a playoff high of 42 points in leading the Orlando Magic to a 96-92 overtime win ag...
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May 27, 2010 Dramatic Surge Seen in Kids Hospitalized With MRSA CHICAGO (AP) — The number of children hospitalized with dangerous drug-resistant staph infections surged 10-fold in recent years, a study published in the journal Pediatrics found. Dise...
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May 27, 2010 IN SCHOOL AND ON TRACK — City Year and the Entertainment Industry Foundation co-hosted “In School & On Track: A National Leadership Summit” May 18 and 19 in Los Angeles. Summit speakers included L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Walma...
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May 27, 2010 BY JENNIFER PELTZ AP WRITER NEW YORK (AP) — Decrying American race relations as a near-war, civil rights leader Malcolm X expressed hope that his tumultuous life story could help blacks and whites, according to a never-published introd...
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May 27, 2010 BY CHRIS TALBOTT AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Author Hampton Sides was not sure about the guy who said he had an interesting archive all about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Amateur archivist Vince Hughe...
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May 27, 2010 BY DARLENE DONLOE CONTRIBUTING WRITER Aurtisha Jackson is a 30-year-old, occasionally homeless, unemployed single mother of three — with two of her kids currently under a doctor’s care. Twice a week, her son, 11-year-old JoDariyen, ...
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May 20, 2010 BY JUDY LIN AP WRITER SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 14 called for eliminating California’s welfare-to-work program, one of the deep cuts he proposed to close a $19 billion budget deficit in the coming fiscal year. Sl...
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May 20, 2010 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Some city schools with low-income and minority students are putting new emphasis on finding gifted kids, and the search is proving fruitful. Under an initiative overseen by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and launched ...
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May 20, 2010 BY KOKAYI KWA JITAHIDI With President Barack Obama’s historic victory in the 2008 presidential campaign, some believed that the racist and pro-corporate individuals and organizations that have ruled the United States for decades were on ...
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May 20, 2010 BY THANDISIZWE CHIMURENGA The May 7 hearing for Johannes Mehserle, the former transit cop who fatally shot Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day of 2009, settled several key issues prior to the beginning of the trial scheduled for June. The wate...
