Black farmers struggle to remain relevant
theGRIO VIDEO - Black farmers now make up just one percent of the entire American farmer population...
Haynesworth pleads no contest to simple assault
WASHINGTON (AP) - Haynesworth appeared Monday in D.C. Superior Court to enter the plea. Haynesworth had been scheduled to go to trial Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge of sexual abuse...
NC works on compensation for sterilization victims
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina is one of about a half dozen states to apologize for past eugenics programs, but it is alone in trying to put together a plan to compensate victims...
Settlement offered in Memphis school budget feud
VIDEO - The school board in Memphis voted 8 - 1 this past Tuesday to indefinitely delay the school year until they received the $55 million in tax revenue..
How black farmers remain a GOP punching bag
OPINION - Michele Bachmann, like the GOP in general, has conveniently forgotten the USDA's history of racism as far as African-Americans are concerned...
Bachmann bashes black farmer settlement
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, which represented black farmers in the Pigford settlement, called the criticism unfair...
Hastings calls attempts to block money to black farmers racist
Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings called Iowa Rep. Steve King's plan to strip $1.2 Billion from the black farmer's discrimination settlement "pure unadulterated racism"...
Pennsylvania town to pay $600K over boy's death
PHILADELPHIA - Allentown agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over the death of a 4-year-old boy who was standing on a sidewalk when a police cruiser struck him...
Eddie Long looks ahead after sex suit settlement
LITHONIA, Georgia (AP) - Long did not address the allegations or the settlement from the pulpit. Details of the resolution have not been disclosed...
Lawyer: Sex lawsuit involving Eddie Long resolved
ATLANTA (AP) - Long is a father of four who has been an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, and his church has counseled gay members to become straight...
