Kendall Gibson, a Rastafarian inmate serving forty-seven years on a robbery, abduction and gun charges, has been in solitary confinement for nearly 4,000 days as he is in violation of Virginia correctional laws regarding hair length Unless something drastic and unexpected changes, or Gibson decides to cut his hair, Virginia Department of Corrections regulations make…

Kendall Gibson, a Rastafarian inmate serving 47 years on a robbery, abduction and gun charges, has been in solitary confinement for nearly 4,000 days as he is in violation of Virginia correctional laws regarding hair length: Unless something drastic and unexpected changes, or Gibson decides to cut his hair, Virginia Department of Corrections regulations make…

Paul Shepard of Black Voices noticed a funny thing happening on the way to work: Last Sunday morning, as I took my regular route from Silver Spring, Md., to Washington, D.C., down Georgia Avenue, home to Howard University, and the social backbone of D.C.’s black population for decades, I saw a sight that would have…

As aid dwindles, some desperate parents in Haiti are leaving their children behind The catastrophic earthquake that left at least 1.3 million Haitians homeless was the final straw for families that could barely afford to feed their children before. Now with aid dwindling, Haitian families are abandoning their children in skyrocketing numbers in the hope…

The GOP is already going on the offensive against Elena Kagan, calling into question her clerkship under liberal justice Thurgood Marshall: Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan’s ties to a liberal icon and the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.In its first memo to reporters since Kagan’s nomination to the high court became…

Another legend has left our midst as Lena Horne passes away at 92. Her career accomplishments are staggering and the New York Times’ obituary on her is a tremendous read. Below is an excerpt: Ms. Horne might have become a major movie star, but she was born 50 years too early, and languished at MGM…

President Barack Obama is to announce on Monday that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is his pick to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan, 50, clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall and is the former dean of Harvard Law School. She would be the fourth woman to ever serve on the Supreme…

Today Tiger Woods withdrew from the Players Championship golf tournament in Florida, complaining of neck pain that he says has plagued him since before The Masters tourney last month. Tiger Woods withdrew on the seventh hole of Sunday’s final round at the Players Championship with a neck injury. He was two-over par through his first…

Bruce Llewellyn’s last days were anything but peaceful. The wealthy black entrepreneur got caught in a battle for control of his treatment, his residence – and his money. According to the New York Times, Llewellyn, who made his fortune in supermarkets and a bottling company, gave control of his treatment to three close friends, instead…