Rickey Smiley and Special K from the Z1079 Morning Show came to Cleveland this weekend to sold out shows at the Improv. We hosted a meet and greet with the comedian at Prime 75 Steakhouse in Downtown Cleveland.
by David Weigel The current frontrunner for the 2012 Republican Party nomination is a 65-year-old black man. Sure, we could talk about how this is a fluke, or how “Herman Cain” is just how voters tell pollsters “I don’t know what to do yet,” or how this is all part of Mitt Romney’s Rube […]
via BBC News US retail sales rose at a faster-than-expected pace in September, offering signs of hope to the country’s economy. Sales were up by 1.1% over the previous month, beating economists’ forecasts. That is the biggest gain in seven months, according to seasonally adjusted data from the US Department of Commerce. Excluding vehicle sales […]
via BBC News A Catholic bishop in the US has been charged with covering up suspected child abuse in his diocese, in the first case of its kind in the country. Bishop Robert Finn, of Kansas City in Missouri, is accused of failing to alert police to a priest who allegedly kept graphic computer images […]
via CNN Three suspects accused of chaining mentally disabled people and stealing their Social Security checks were arrested in Philadelphia. They were arrested Friday after a janitor doing checks at a building found four victims — a 29-year-old woman, and three men, ages 31, 35 and 31 — locked up in a basement boiler room […]
From CNN, by Roy Peter Clark: I was in Atlanta when I first learned of a controversy over an inscription marking the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington. The quote on one side of the granite “Stone of Hope” reads, “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.” In an […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Sunday to give the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial a proper dedication on the National Mall after its opening in August. Aretha Franklin, poet Nikki Giovanni and President Barack Obama were among those honoring the legacy of the nation’s foremost civil rights leader during a ceremony scheduled […]
via BBC News A man who spent 26 years in jail for a murder he did not commit has fulfilled his dream by making his professional boxing debut and winning. Dewey Bozella, now 52, became a prison boxing champion while in New York state’s Sing Sing jail. He was freed in 2009 after his conviction […]
via CNN The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is set to be officially dedicated on Sunday, with lingering controversy still surrounding both the statue and a quote from King. The monument to the slain civil rights leader was due to have been unveiled on August 28, the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington […]
via CNN Thousands of people across the world railed against corporate power, grinding poverty and government cuts Saturday as the Occupy Wall Street movement spread to the streets of Europe, Asia and Australia — and took a particularly violent turn in Rome. Firefighters battled a blaze at an Interior Ministry building near Porta San Giovanni […]
Shortly after midnight last night, officers from the Akron Police Department and the University of Akron Police Department responded to a shooting in the 600 block of Sherman Street where they located six victims. The victims were transported to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. After investigating, police learned that several guests were asked to […]
