Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Speakers for the Lewis Katz memorial service included; from left, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, former President Bill Clinton, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Patrick O’Connor, Chairman, Temple University Board of Trustees, and Rabbi Aaron Krupnick of Congregation Beth El, listen to entertainer and former classmate Bill Cosby speaks during…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Accompanied by President Barack Obama, Jani Bergdahl and Bob Bergdahl speak during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Saturday, May 31, 2014 about the release of their son, U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl, 28, had been held prisoner by the Taliban since June 30,…

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By Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states must look beyond an intelligence test score in borderline cases of mental disability to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed. The justices said in a 5-4 decision that Florida and a handful of other states cannot…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Obama talks with Deidre Carillo, 18, of San Antonio, Texas, sitting in her electric car as part of the 2014 White House Science Fair exhibits that are on display in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Obama was celebrating the student winners of a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  NAACP National board of directors Chairman Roslyn Brock, right, poses with the new national president and CEO, Cornell William Brooks last weekend in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.  (Photo courtesy: NAACP, J. Adams)   Associated Press WASHINGTON — As a Head Start and Yale Law School graduate, Cornell William Brooks calls himself a direct beneficiary…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rev. Frederick Haynes   By George E. Curry NNPA WASHINGTON– A search firm hired by the NAACP ranked Rev. Frederick D. Haynes, III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, as the top candidate five years ago to become president and CEO of the NAACP. But Haynes wasn’t the favorite of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This photo of Vladimir Baptiste was provided by Baltimore County Police. Police announced Wednesday, May 14, 2014 that Baptiste, 28, was charged with three counts of second-degree attempted murder. On Tuesday, Baptiste slammed a stolen landscaping truck into a Baltimore-area television station and was barricaded inside for hours. He is being held at…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Ron Stallworth   NewsOne.com Over a period of nine months back in 1979, now-retired African-American cop Ron Stallworth went undercover with a Colorado chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and is speaking about his experience in his book, “Black Klansman.” During an interview with Good 4 Utah, the former Colorado Springs police sergeant…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Galyna Andrushko / Shutterstock.com) By Mohammed Saeed and Hamza Hendawi Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan — A pregnant Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday after she refused to recant her Christian faith, her lawyer said. Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but mother was an Orthodox Christian from…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Cornealious “Mike” Anderson walks out of the Mississippi County Courthouse along with his wife, LaQonna Anderson, daughter Nevaeh, 3, and grandmother Mary Porter, left, after being released from custody, Monday, May 5, 2014, in Charleston, Mo. A judge ordered the release of Anderson who was convicted of robbery in 2000 but never sent…

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