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LeRoy Walker, the first African-American to head the U.S. Olympic Committee and coach an American Olympic track and field team, has died. He was 93. Scarborough & Hargett Funeral home says Walker died Monday in Durham. No cause of death was given. Walker led the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1992 to 96, shepherding the Atlanta […]
Whether they have always known what they wanted or came to their vocations over time, the 30 women profiled in “Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World,” have something in common, besides race. “The foundation for all of these women in some way, shape or form helped support their work. They came to the […]
Despite all the negative publicity of recent years, research shows U.S. Catholic priests are demonstrably among the happiest, most job-fulfilled and satisfied men in the…
Christine Bolden, a 26-year-old woman from Michigan who was declared brain dead due to two brain aneurysms, recently gave birth to two boys, 24 Hours…
Jay-Z and Kanye West have as much to do with French politics as Clarance Thomas does with his local chapter of the NAACP. SEE ALSO:…
The case of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the admitted killer of 77 people in a bombing and the Labor Party youth camp slaughter,…
The 700 Club’s Special Correspondent, Scott Ross spoke with track superstar, Marion Jones about her public fall after winning Olympic gold. She says, “This is an individual who has graced the covers of Time Magazine, Vogue Magazine, is making millions of dollars, household name, and I am in a cell (federal prison) the size of […]
George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. The neighborhood watch volunteer was wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans and carrying a paper bag. He met a man in a white vehicle and drove away. […]
*During a visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan this week, President Barack Obama took a moment to board one of its big attractions – the Montgomery, Ala. city bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Obama later reflected on the moment at a fundraiser in suburban Detroit. “I […]
With the approaching twentieth anniversary of the LA Riots – which started April 29, 1992 – the LA Times got together with Rodney King to find out where his head is 20 years later. If you recall, it all started after a jury acquitted four police officers in the vicious beating of King a year […]
*It’s that time of the year. That would be graduation time, to be specific. That means colleges and universities are going all out to get the high profile names to give their commencement speeches. One of the highest profile people in the world, Oprah Winfrey, has accepted the invitation to give Spelman College’s 2012 […]
You may want to think twice before you grab your next Coke. A Mother of eight in New Zealand died back in 2010 in part…