Gabrielle Turnquest passed Britain’s bar exam last week, making the 18-year-old the youngest person to do so in the 600-year history of the exam. “I just really like finishing things before other people do,” she says. “I don’t do well with breaks or vacations,” added the teen, who cred... Read more...
Trayvon Martin will not go gently into that good night, and the poor kid’s ghost can and will haunt us, it seems, until justice is done. His shooter, the neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, so the wheels of the legal system, ho... Read more...
PrinceGeorge's County officials and residents are mourning the loss of Walter Dozier, 60, a former Dr. Walter Lee Dozier education liaison for the county executive's office who died in his Capitol Heights home Monday after succumbing to a long-term illness. Dozier, also ... Read more...
Forty-four days after unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin was shot in Sanford, Fla., all sides await a decision on whether there will be charges for neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who fired the fatal shot. The case was expected to be taken up as early as Tuesday by a grand jur... Read more...
Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Kareem “Biggs” Burke has pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Criminal Court, for his role in a massive marijuana ring. Burke appeared in court yesterday (March 15) in Manhattan Federal Court, where he pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and to possess w... Read more...
Outrage over the Trayvon Martin shooting is spreading as marchers took to the streets in New York City and Miami demanding the arrest of the shooter, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Three weeks ago, the unarmed Martin was shot in a gated subdivision outside of Orlando by Zimmerman,... Read more...
It happened to Oscar Grant, It almost Happened to Askia Sabur & now it has happened to Trayvon Martin.. How many young lives will be enough? Heartbreaking tragedy: 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was visiting a relative's house in a Florida gated community when he walked to t... Read more...
Ahead of Thursday’s tipoff of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, a study has found anew that the gap in the graduation rate between white and black players remains wide. The annual report, “Keeping Score When It Counts,” by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the Un... Read more...
A decision by retail giant Lowe's Home Improvement to pull ads from a reality show about American Muslims following protests from an evangelical Christian group has sparked criticism and calls for a boycott against the chain. The retailer stopped advertising on TLC's "All-American Muslim" after a c... Read more...