Trayvon shooter to send 'thank you cards' to defense fund donors
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - George Zimmerman plans to step up fundraising to pay for his expenses while he awaits trial for fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin...
Beyoncé, Jay-Z raise cash for Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is getting a boost from pop stars Beyonce and Jay-Z...
Ricky Williams Foundation run by cult-like group
theGRIO REPORT - In order to make up for lost funds, the Ricky Williams Foundation is now supporting the development of at-risk children through the teachings of a controversial, cult-like group called Access Consciousness...
Funding for NAACP, Urban League turned into corporate leadership
The answer is that the Urban League is utterly dependent on the generosity of corporate donors, and Bill Gates is potentially among the biggest...
US to announce $100M in Somalia famine funding
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in the country's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official said Monday...
Obama to increase funding to HBCUs
President Obama's administration has agreed to increase funding to the nation's historically Black colleges and universities...
Obama seeks $1.35 billion more for schools to "Race to the Top"
From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature educational plan, promised to "raise the bar'' for what public schools expect of students and teachers...
School bus cuts leave parents and students stranded
HOUSTON (AP) -- As a mother of two, Feleccia Moore-Davis is accustomed to the usual back-to-school swirl of new supplies, new clothes and new routines.
South Africa cuts AIDS vaccine funding
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa's government joined Monday in launching a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers -- the first designed by a developing country -- but the moment was marred by the lead researcher's announcement it has actually halted funding its own project.
