Week In Review

The Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, a Bethlehem, PA, casino and entertainment destination, today announced the start of construction of an Event Center to open in May 2012. The plans currently include 50,000 square feet of flexible multi-purpose space, allowing the resort to accommodate…

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President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said.

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Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton, who was suspended from the league for having guns in a locker room with teammate Gilbert Arenas, was arrested Monday in Southern California to face a murder charge in a deadly Atlanta shooting.

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The former leader of an Oakland-based community group was sentenced to life in prison for commiting three murders, including the first american journalist to be killed in 10 years. Bey was the head of Your Black Muslim Bakery, the black empowerment group his father formed in the 1960s.

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Maya Angelou says a recently unveiled monument to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is inscribed with a quote taken out of context that makes the reverend seem “arrogant.” I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness, the inscription on the 30-foot-tall statue of King reads.

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Taking the microphone at a church in a predominantly black neighborhood of Miami, the Rev. Jesse Jackson asked how many in the crowd knew someone looking for a job. Most of the several hundred people in the televised town hall gathering stood up. How many knew someone facing foreclosure?

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The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine last Tuesday. Frightened office workers spilled into the streets in New York, and parts of the White House, Capitol and Pentagon were evacuated.

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Mayor Nutter said the first weekend of an earlier curfew for all minors went well except for one incident after a city-sponsored bowling party in an area outside the new curfew enforcement zone. The Mayor also called upon the business community to support positive youth development activities…

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Gregory Lee Jr, the Senior Assistant Sports Editor at The Boston Globe and the current NABJ Treasurer, won the election with 294 votes, 57 percent of the vote, defeating opponent Deirdre Childress of The Philadelphia Inquirer who received 168 votes. Charles Robinson of Maryland Public Television received 50 votes.

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Charles L. Gittens, who in 1956 became the first black Secret Service agent, died on July 27 in Maryland, according to the Associated Press. He was 82.

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