Eamonn Brennan of ESPN is reporting that Robert Traylor, the former Michigan basketball star and NBA player, was found dead in his apartment in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, today, according to a Spanish-language Facebook release from his current professional club (via SB Nation and Scott Schroeder). Traylor was 34 years old. The cause of death…

Black Enterprise’s financial columnist, Lynette Khalfani-Cox, gives her take on what the government needs to be doing to address the jobless rate that is crushing black America. She believes that the government needs to step in and put an end to the practice of employers discriminating against unemployed job seekers. Federal legislation banning discrimination against…

Edward Gunts of the Baltimore Sun is reporting that developers of the $150 million Lexington Square project planned for Baltimore’s west side cleared a key hurdle Tuesday when Baltimore’s preservation commission voted to give preliminary approval to a plan to save two exterior walls of the former Read’s drugstore as part of the project, rather…

CNN is reporting that residents of Mississippi and Louisiana are bracing themselves for flooding as the bulging Mississippi River barrels down South. A vast number of farms remained under threat as it left a trail of submerged homes. The river crested at Memphis, Tenn., a day earlier just a few inches short of a record…

Deanna Martin of the Associated Press is reporting that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a measure Tuesday imposing some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on abortions and making Indiana the first state to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood of Indiana immediately went to court in an effort to stop the law. U.S.…

The Washington Post is reporting that a United Nations panel investigating the source of Haiti’s 2010 cholera outbreak has turned up circumstantial evidence suggesting that U.N. peacekeepers may have introduced a lethal strain of the disease into the Haitian population in the fall, triggering an epidemic that has so far killed more than 4,500 people…

The St. Petersburg Times’ Eric Deggans is taking Donald Trump to task for his dismissive attitude toward black women. He uses Sunday night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice as an example, with Trump quickly dumping Star Jones after Nene Leakes’ much hyped departure. On the episode, the reality-TV star and possible presidential candidate fired all three…

The Guardian is reporting that the city of Memphis, Tenn., has been put on alert for record flooding as the waters of the Mississippi River reached a historic peak. Police went door to door to evacuate people from low-lying neighborhoods after forecasters said the river could reach its peak of 48 feet by Monday evening.…