Why Business Fought the Confederate Flag

  (CNN) – It happened in a matter of days. In South Carolina, the governor called for the Confederate flag to stop flying over the capitol....

AP Source: Kevin Love Opts Out of Contract with Cavs

TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says Cavaliers forward Kevin Love has opted out of the final year...

Biggest Kentucky Group to Date Preparing for NBA Draft

GARY B. GRAVES, AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — John Calipari and his Kentucky pipeline to the NBA will have yet another major impact on...

Does Don Lemon Offend You? For CNN, That Might Not Be a Problem

(The Washington Post) – Once again, Twitter is howling about Don Lemon. And that’s a bad thing? The CNN anchor whipped social media into a frenzy — another frenzy...

Some Examples of Confederate Tributes Around the South

The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Tributes to the Confederacy and the Jim Crow era that have existed still abound in the Deep South and beyond...

What This Cruel War Was Over

  (The Atlantic) – This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that...

New York to Pay Wrongfully Imprisoned Man $6.25 Million

(USA Today) – New York City will pay $6.25 million to a man wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years for a murder he didn’t commit. The settlement...

Report: Freddie Gray Died of ‘High-Energy Injury’ in Baltimore

  (USA Today) – A black man who died in police custody in Baltimore in April died of a “high-energy injury” that likely happened when the...

Charleston Church Shooter’s Black Friend Says He Still Loves Him [VIDEO]

Whites Don’t Have to Pretend to Be Black to Lead an NAACP Chapter

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If Rachel Dolezal had looked around, she would have discovered that a White person does not have...