12:21 AM / Sunday March 7, 2021
August 1, 2010
A military hero, Baker was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on April 5-6, 1945, when he and his platoon killed 26 enemy soldiers and destroyed six machine gun nests, two observer posts and four dugouts near Viareggio, Italy.
July 26, 2010
On Friday, July 12th, Tom Corbett repeated his statement accusing unemployed Pennsylvanians of failing to look for work. Corbett, speaking on Pennsylvania Public Radio, said, “People don’t want to come back to work while they still have unemployment…
July 26, 2010
Greene’s 6 1/2 minute speech at the local NAACP’s monthly meeting was mostly serious. Left out was any mention of his suggestion earlier this month that creating a line of action figures modeled after him could give South Carolinians jobs.
July 26, 2010
Blackwell died of natural causes at a hospital on July 8, University of California, Berkeley officials said. He was the first tenured black professor at the campus, where he taught for nearly 35 years.
July 26, 2010
Oil from BP’s blown out well is again seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, but this time, more slowly and scientists aren’t convinced the cap that stopped the flow last week is making things worse.
July 18, 2010
A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.
July 18, 2010
The NAACP opposes the jury’s verdict of involuntary manslaughter regarding the 2009 New Year’s Eve shooting of a 22 year old young man by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police officer in Oakland, CA.
July 18, 2010
Leaders of the country’s largest civil rights organization accused Tea Party activists last Tuesday of tolerating bigotry and approved a resolution condemning racism within the political movement.
July 9, 2010
Just about everyone likes Charlie Rangel. Republicans pump his hand, Democrats put their arms around his shoulders and women of all political persuasions give him pecks on the cheek.
July 9, 2010
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that’s indicative of a larger issue in Detroit, where the lack of making parents accountable for their children is partly being blamed on elevated truancy and dropout rates, as well as a recent rash of violent crimes involving teens.
March 5, 2021
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ABOVE PHOTO: A unknown person holding a sign for the raise of minimum wage at a site...
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