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June 5, 2009
BETSY TAYLOR Associated Press Writer (AP Photo Jeff Roberson) ST. CHARLES, Missouri (AP) — Brryan Jackson has been left out
June 5, 2009
Wal-Mart plans to open roughly 150 stores around the country. Officials with the world’s largest retailer are taking steps to
June 5, 2009
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ top racism investigator says Washington needs to step up the fight against racial profiling.
June 5, 2009
Hartford, CT – People are lining up in front of a shoe store, waiting for Saturday and the chance to
June 5, 2009
PHILADELPHIA – A brazen robbery at a Pennsylvania jewelry store is caught on tape. In this security video you can
June 5, 2009
Evergreen, AL – Police officers in Alabama are searching for suspects involved in a vicious beating that was caught on
June 5, 2009
President Obama is spending a busy day in Germany. After trying to shore up diplomatic relations, he’s honoring holocaust victims
June 4, 2009
Why are you making a news site for Black Americans? By focusing on people’s differences aren’t you just enhancing the
June 4, 2009
JEFF CARLTON Associated Press Writer/Photo Courtesy AP DALLAS (AP) — Murder charges were dropped at the prosecution’s request Thursday in
June 4, 2009
A Virginia community is saddened by the death last night of 11-year-old Chelal Matos. Two boys were struck by lightning
June 4, 2009
James Travis was one of the storied World War II airmen as a part of the nation’s first black military
June 4, 2009
NEW YORK CITY – Funeral services were held today for a New York police officer who was killed by friendly
June 4, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Olympic teammates Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer will reunite to take part in
June 4, 2009
MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Tourette syndrome occurs in 3 out of every 1,000 school-aged children, and
June 4, 2009
Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” died
June 4, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — The date for Whitney Houston’s comeback has been set. Arista Records says her long-awaited album will
June 4, 2009
CAIRO – President Barack Obama delivered a major speech to the Muslim world today (Thursday) from Cairo, Egypt. The speech
June 4, 2009
I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one…
June 3, 2009
CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned
June 3, 2009
TERRY COLLINS Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, California (AP) — A transit police officer said right after fatally shooting a man