WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — The July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida became the catalyst for creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement’s genesis was tweeting of the n … [Continue Reading] about Survey: Conservatives Suggest Renaming #BlackLivesMatter
DETROIT—Ford Motor Company lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today, accusing the Secret Service, a DHS agency, of complicity in allowing Pope Francis to engage in “advertising and blatant nationalism” by driving a Fi … [Continue Reading] about Ford Motor Executive Slams Pope Francis: “Italian Carmakers’ Pope”
GARRETT COUNTY, Maryland —Just a couple of weeks after renaming Mount McKinley, now Denali, in Alaska, President Obama traveled to rural Garrett County in western Maryland today and renamed a mountain range that has a long-disputed history. In a … [Continue Reading] about Obama Renames Negro Mountain — African-American Mountain
WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — Lawyers for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who remains in jail because she stubbornly refuses to comply with a Supreme Court ruling to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, filed an emergency request for … [Continue Reading] about Lawyers For Jailed Kentucky Clerk Cite Religion As A Disability Under The ADA
WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — Kim Davis, the Democratic Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who was jailed this morning by a federal judge because she steadfastly refuses to issue same-sex marriage certificates, said she’s following God’s moral laws and drawing … [Continue Reading] about Jailed Kentucky County Clerk: “I Don’t Mind Being the Governor Wallace and Rev. King of My Generation.”
WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — The body of an aspiring rapper known as MC Smokinz was found last night at 9:48 sprawled between two cars in the parking lot of an assisted-living facility in the 6000 block of Connecticut Avenue in Northwest … [Continue Reading] about Aspiring Rapper, 67, Found Dead In D.C. Parking Lot
CHICAGO — Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., announced today that this winter it will publish a first-ever Extra Special Issue of Ebony that will focus exclusively on analyzing the many levels of disparities currently affecting black males in America. … [Continue Reading] about Ebony Will Publish Extra Special Issue Focused On Black Males
WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — While the nation continues to mourn following the murders last week of four Marines and a Navy sailor in Chattanooga by an ISIS-encouraged terrorist, controversial Christian evangelist Franklin Graham has called for the … [Continue Reading] about Franklin Graham Proposes Creation of a Christian Army Corps To Fight ISIS
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — A resolution to rename the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge — site of the violent 1965 Bloody Sunday confrontation during the Civil Right Movement — died in a committee of the Alabama legislature here today when … [Continue Reading] about Alabama Legislature Will Not Renamed Historic Selma Bridge
