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Recently, teachers and principals in the Atlanta public school system admitted to cheating on government mandated tests. Why would they cheat? Laws set up for No Child Left Behind place funding for schools, salaries for teachers and even jobs for teachers based on test scores. Of course it was the teachers who made the ultimate […]
With Social Security possibly on the chopping block in debt talks in Washington, a report reveals that single, elderly, African-American women will be further driven into poverty. According to the National Women’s Law Center’s analysis of Current Population Survey data shows that if chained CPI, a Social Security COLA is cut, the median benefit for […]
This weekend, Casey Anthony will leave Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida amid controversy. Her release from prison will continue a debate that many in the Black community are currently having. Casey, who was acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee, has become a household name, just as most of the Anthony family has. But following […]
The rate of firearm deaths among children under 15 years old is 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined, according to statistics from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. With these alarming rates, parents must understand that prevention starts with them. Detroit police investigator Kimree Beckem suggests […]
OXFORD, Fla — A 2-year-old was killed by her parents pet albino Burmese python in Oxford, Florida. Jaren Hare, and her boyfriend, Charles Darnell have been charged with manslaughter and third degree murder. The New York Daily News reports: “There were also several clusters of puncture wounds … that represent bites from the snake as […]
Roland Martin and David Frum join Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room to discuss Republican presidential candidates signing the controversial marriage pledge.
Roland Martin and David Frum join Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room to discuss Gov. Rick Perry’s call to prayer and fasting to fix the problems that government can not fix.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with Ruby Bridges, who was one of the first African Americans to integrate the New Orleans public school system in 1960. Bridges was immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting, “The Problem We All Live With,” that captured the bigotry and hatred of racism. The painting was recently placed […]
CHATTANOGA, TN — Three men are being charged with hate crimes after throwing fireworks and yelling racial slurs at residents of a predominantly black community in Tennessee. The men in question have maintained their innocence. If convicted, they could face 2-12 years behind bars. “This is one of those appalling malicious instances that apply to […]
A new book about the life of Barack Obama’s mother is casting doubt on statements shared by the president during his 2008 election campaign and push for health care reform, The New York Times reports. According to A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, a biography written by Times reporter Janny Scott, […]