VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) said Wednesday that effective immediately, and until challenged in court, the state recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and that Maryland agencies should begin affording out-of-state gay couples all the rights they have been awarded in other places. “State agencies in Maryland will recognize out-of-state […]
VIA REUTERS: U.S. lawmakers appeared to be looking for somebody to hang on Wednesday over Toyota Motor Corp’s scandal-plagued vehicles. In their sights were the car company’s executives and a U.S. government watchdog agency. Toyota’s executives, more accustomed to issuing orders than taking them, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former member of Congress, found […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON – The average American is carrying about $1,100.00 of debt per credit card, according to Experian Marketing Insight, and most of us have more than one. Now get this: a $3,000 balance will take 11 years to pay off — if you pay only the minimum balance. That’s the shocking statistic that […]
VIA: History.Com On January 18, 1958, hockey player Willie O’Ree of the Boston Bruins takes to the ice for a game against the Montreal Canadiens, becoming the first black to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). Born in 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, O’Ree was the son of a civil engineer, in one […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Winter Storm Watch remains in effect from late Wednesday night through late Thursday night. There is potential for snow accumulations of 5 or more inches during this period. A mix of rain and snow will begin Wednesday evening. It is expected to become all snow between midnight and 3 […]
The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Roslyn M. Brock, 44, was chosen to succeed Julian Bond. She had been vice chairman since 2001 and a member of the NAACP for 25 years. Brock works for Bon Secours Health Systems in Maryland as vice president […]
VIA: AltheaGibson.Com Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, SC, A right-hander, grew up in Harlem. Her family was poor, but she was fortunate in coming to the attention of Dr. Walter Johnson, a Lynchburg VA physician who was active in the black tennis community. He became her patron as he would later for Arthur Ashe, […]
