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  • Facebook Refuses to Hand Over Pirate Information

    When United Nations investigators approached Facebook for help tracking down suspected Somali pirates, Facebook basically gave them a metaphorical Kanye shrug. Though some groups and companies have obliged such requests in the past, Facebook apparently isn’t one of them, reports the U.N.’s Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea. In an issued statement, Facebook said that…

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  • Oscar Grant's Dad Can Sue Transit Officer

    Oscar Grant’s father will be allowed to sue Johannes Mehserle, the Northern California transit officer who shot and killed his 22-year-old son, now that an appellate court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that the shooting was indeed involuntary manslaughter. The 2009 shooting of Grant has gained renewed attention in light of Trayvon Martin’s shooting…

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  • Gawker Versus Black Twitter

    (The Root) — Lots of black folks on Twitter have a problem with sites like Gawker, Jezebel and BuzzFeed. Many feel that the wildly popular news entertainment sites mine what has come to be known as “black Twitter” for content, sometimes without citing or crediting the source of their ideas. In the midst of Twitter…

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  • Jordan Russell Davis' Shooter Pleads 'Not Guilty'

    Michael David Dunn has pleaded “not guilty” to murder in the shooting death of Jordan Russell Davis, a 17-year-old African-American high school student, during an incident at a Florida gas station last year.  The shooting is gaining nationwide attention because of its similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting. NBC News reports:  A Florida gun collector has pleaded…

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  • Massive African-American Cemetery Discovered

    Archaeologists digging on the grounds of a Philadelphia playground have found evidence of a 200-year-old grave site that the Mother Bethel African Methodist Epicopal Church purchased in 1810 because Philadelphia cemeteries would not accept black people. Among the estimated 3,000 laid to rest there were prominent African-American folk of that era, the Huffington Post reports: Mother Bethel…

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  • Capital Connections: WGRG Tin Cup Awards Dinner

    The Washington Government Relations Group’s fourth annual Tin Cup Awards Dinner was held July 24 at the French Embassy. WGRG Tin Cup Dinner Co-Chair Tiffany Moore with WGRG members Tasha Cole, Joi Sheffield and Kimberly Woodard. The Root’s publisher, Donna Byrd (center), with Kneeland Youngblood and 2013 WGRG President’s Award winner Lamell McMorris, president and…

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  • Capital Connections: WGRG Tin Cup Awards Dinner

    The Washington Government Relations Group’s fourth annual Tin Cup Awards Dinner was held July 24 at the French Embassy. WGRG Tin Cup Dinner Co-Chair Tiffany Moore with WGRG members Tasha Cole, Joi Sheffield and Kimberly Woodard. The Root’s publisher, Donna Byrd (center), with Kneeland Youngblood and 2013 WGRG President’s Award winner Lamell McMorris, president and…

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  • Obama and Holder: Feds Will Fight to Protect Voting Rights

    During a meeting on Monday with civil rights leaders, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department has an open-door policy regarding reports of voting-rights violations. The meeting was an apparent attempt to assuage any concerns that civil rights groups might have had after last month’s Supreme Court voting-rights ruling in Shelby…

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  • Obama's 'Grand Bargain' for Jobs

    Is there hope that President Obama might break the political gridlock on budget negotiations? According to a new proposal he’s extending to Republicans, he thinks so. The offer that’s been labeled a “grand bargain” would involve cutting corporate tax rates in exchange for job investments, the Huffington Post reports: White House officials say just because…

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  • Start With the Man in the Mirror, Don Lemon

    (The Root) — Buried beneath the ever-growing pile of rubble that is the negative reaction to CNN anchor Don Lemon’s “tough love” comments about the black community was the excellent rebuttal by Global Grind’s editor-in-chief, Michael Skolnik. “It’s a reflection, it’s a mirror,” said Skolnik when asked by Lemon if rap and hip-hop “glorify prison…

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