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President Obama wanted out of Afghanistan last year.

White House officials expect Lawrence Summers to leave his job as the president’s National Economic Council director after November’s congressional elections, according to three people familiar with the matter.

A majority of Americans prefer cutting the deficit to increasing government spending as a way to improve the tough economy and believe a more balanced budget would help create jobs, a Reuters Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.

One of the key figures on the Los Angeles jazz scene, Buddy Collette was a saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator who also worked as an advocate for the rights of African American musicians.

Chris Rock had a joke about black anti-intellectualism that roughly went “those people are keeping it real. Yeah, real stupid!” One can’t help but think these days there is a creeping anti-intellectualism in some segments of white America.

“Blacks for Gray, Whites for Fenty,” ran the nuanced headline on page one of the Washington Examiner.

President Lincoln warns the South that he would free slaves in all states in rebellion on January 1 of the following year. (1862) Mary Church Terrell, the first Black person to Serve on the DC board of education, was born. (1863) Race riot in New Orleans. (1868) Race Riot in Atlanta results in 10 Black […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a stay of execution appeal from Teresa Lewis, scheduled to be the first woman executed in the United States in five years.

President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt who was granted asylum by a U.S. immigration judge in May faults “the system” for allowing her to defy her deportation order, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.

A few years ago, Bill Rankin created maps of every city in America and colored them with each ethnic group. The purpose of this project was to show how segregated the majority of our country still is; even in areas you would consider to be cosmopolitan. Link To Segregated Maps Above is a map of […]

CNN is reporting that two men have accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual abuse. Two Georgia men have filed suit claiming that prominent Atlanta pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex. The suits, filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male […]

An overnight fire traps a teenager and two children inside a Chicago home. Jamaya Herron, 18, died at the scene. Firefighters rescued the other kids.