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WASHINGTON – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is calling Barack Obama “one of the most ineffective presidents” he’s ever seen, and says he can beat him next year. Romney tells NBC in an interview that while Obama wasn’t responsible for the recession he inherited, “he made things worse. He’s failed.” Romney also says he thinks […]
Despite claims of economic upturn, housing prices fell in March to their lowest point since the real estate bubble burst, new data says. Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index reports 12 of the 20 cities included in the data suffered new recession lows in March. The desire to own your own home, long a […]
MIAMI-Police killed a man after an altercation that lead to a shoot out and car chase in Miami during the busy Memorial Day festivities. The Miami Herald reports: Police Chief Carlos Noriega said the weekend’s relative peace was shattered just before 4 a.m. when a driver struck an officer with his car near Collins Avenue […]
Congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois told Slate Magazine that President Barack Obama was elected due to his race and white guilt. “Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a […]
WASHINGTON– Rodney J. McIntyre, 45, has been charged with the rape and murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Ebony Franklin, after police revealed that the father’s semen was found in the girl’s body.
The jobless rate is a topic that is not only weighing on the minds of many African-Americans, but with Black scholars and politicians across the country too. But despite the fact that the jobless rate is something affecting all, many Blacks have to deal with discriminatory hiring practices as well. With this as an issue, […]
In a country where Black men face their highest unemployment rates since 1972, Black men are finding it tough to cope with the idea of not being able to not only provide for themselves, but their families as well. Even as the economy improved last month, the percentage of black males over 20 who are […]
A new study by researchers at Tufts University and Harvard Business School shows that whites believe they are victims of racism more often than Blacks. While that may elicit a raised eyebrow from most people, the title of the study “Whites See Racism as a Zero-sum Game that They Are Now Losing,” shows that many […]
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA – Tea Party member Andrew Tome attempted to invite members of the York, Pennsylvania NAACP to a Tea Party “Advancing The Honor” rally , but his invitation was rejected due to the organization’s views on racism in the Tea Party. But a majority of the NAACP members at the May 10 meeting disagreed. […]
NEW YORK — Donald Trump said he is unhappy with the state of the Republican presidential primary field and is signaling that he may be once again be interested in making a presidential run, in an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning. “The ones that have announced, I just don’t see it,” he […]