SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The tape recorder started rolling as two police investigators sat in their car in a hospital parking lot with Deborah Madden on Feb. 26. "You're causing a huge nightmare for the city," said one officer.
Now the 60-year-old te ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:15PM
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Veteran R&B diva Patti LaBelle is getting an honorary degree from Temple University in her hometown of Philadelphia.
The university will present LaBelle with the doctorate in humane letters at its May 13 commencement ceremony.
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Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:11PM
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From InsideOut.ChicagoPublicRadio.org
April 18, 2010
There are many more black and brown young people in our jails and prisons than you’d predict, if you just look at their percentages in the population at large.
The numbers are simply out of ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 12:54PM
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Dear Reverend Sharpton:
Congratulations to you and the National Action Network for another year of fighting for the rights of those who have no voice, and lifting up causes that would otherwise go unnoticed. I regret that I am unable to join you a ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 7:05PM
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LOS ANGELES--With a group of white supremacists yet to show up for a planned rally on the lawn of City Hall, at least two people have been injured in a steadily growing crowd of counter-protesters -- developments that prompted the Los Angeles Police ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 7:01PM
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JACKSON, Tenn. — A white supremacist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.
U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 1:27PM
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JACKSON, Tenn. — A white supremacist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.
U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 1:22PM
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Chicago - As he ranted about his religious beliefs, a 32-year-old Wisconsin man went room to room with a 9mm pistol early Wednesday -- killing his pregnant teenage wife, his baby son and two nieces in a brick home on the Southwest Side, according to ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 11:50AM
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