State Rep Mary Flowers is urging a community group to sue Chicago Public Schools for not including black history as part of their regular curriculum; which violates a 22 year-old state law.
Police chose to inform Georgia mother Anna Lamb-Creasey of her son’s death via Facebook. The message wasn’t even from an official police Facebook account. Due to the confusion, it took 20 days for her to learn the truth about her son’s whereabouts. Horrible.
NYPD Detective Hassan Hamdy, who shot and killed unarmed National Guardsman Noel Palonco (Photo by Victor Alcom) Remember last week when the world was riveted by the exploits of ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner? Many felt that the support of Dorner’s quest to expose the corruption and racism in the LAPD was unwarranted because he killed innocent people. One author […]
18 year-old Janay Mcfarlane was shot and killed the same day her sister sat behind President Obama as he addressed the crisis of gun violence
Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation has requested that Lil Wayne remove Emmett Till’s name from his verse on Future’s “Karate Chop.” Gordon-Taylor calls Wayne’s use of Till’s name “disappointing, dishonorable, and outright disrespectful to our family.”
Three University of Maryland students are dead after a murder-suicide on campus. So very tragic. Our thoughts are with the families who have suffered this great loss.
A chaotic, surreal standoff at a cabin in the mountains of Big Bear, CA may have brought an end to the nearly two week-long manhunt for ex LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
8th grader Marquis Jay was sitting in his chair, leaning his head back with his mouth open, when his teacher walked over and poured pencil shavings into his mouth. The teacher was suspended, but has since resumed work. Should the teacher be fired?
Hundreds packed the funeral of 15 year-old Hadiya Pendleton on Saturday. Attendees heard remarks from her loved ones that painted a heartfelt, deeply personal portrait of the young lady; a loving daughter, and great best friend, a normal teenager.
Embattled former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has reportedly signed a plea deal that will involve “significant jail time.” A source has told the Chicago Sun-Times that jail time would definitely be a part of any plea deal, and that his wife Sandi is the subject of a probe of her own.
The search for Christopher Dorner, a former LAPD office and member of the US Armed Forces who had allegedly killed three people, continues. Dorner feels that he was wrongfully terminated from the LAPD in 2008 for reporting another officer’s brutality against a disabled suspect.
Washington Post columnist Rahiel Tesfamariam’s latest column examines Chicago’s gun violence crisis, and the need for President Obama to take a more active role in addressing that crisis. We agree; sign our petition at http://Change.org/BarackComeHome
