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February 27, 2010
The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman last Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Roslyn M. Brock, 44, was chosen to succeed Julian Bond. She had been vice chairman since 2001 and a member of the NAACP for 25 years.
February 27, 2010
Tiger Woods apologized for cheating on his wife and says he is unsure when he will return to competitive golf. “I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated. What I did was not acceptable,” said Woods, looking composed and speaking in a steady voice.
February 27, 2010
When Joseph Andrew Stack crashed his plane into an IRS building in Texas Thursday morning, leaving behind a ranting letter against the government indicating that taxes ruined him financially, some people wrote him off as deranged.
February 22, 2010
Old police records on a professor charged in a recent deadly campus shooting reveal that after she shot her brother to death in 1986, a shooting later ruled accidental , she was found crouching behind a parked car, holding a loaded shotgun.
February 19, 2010
Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn’t so easy when she came home, either. In her recently released book, the 37-year-old single mother describes mental health problems related to her captivity and tells how…
February 19, 2010
Dr. Conrad Murray pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop star at a brief hearing that had all the trappings of another sensational celebrity courtroom drama. Murray, a cardiologist who was with Jackson when he died June 25 at his rented Los Angeles mansion, is accused of…
February 19, 2010
Mitch Landrieu was elected mayor of New Orleans last week, replacing term-limited Ray Nagin and becoming the majority-black city’s first white mayor since 1979, the year his father, Moon Landrieu, left the office.
February 6, 2010
Women and members of ethnic or racial minorities are underrepresented in a majority of state courts across the nation. A new report from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, titled “Judicial Diversity And Money In Politics,” examines judicial elections…
February 6, 2010
The Pittsburgh branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said at a Hill District news conference that the officers accused of beating Jordan Miles should be terminated and charged criminally with violating the 18-year-old’s civil rights.
January 29, 2010
The FBI is looking into whether Pittsburgh police officers violated the civil rights of an 18-year-old violist who accused them of brutally beating him as he walked to his grandmother’s house after dark.
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