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CLEVELAND, OH – Cleveland’s Chief of Police and the U.S. Marshals have arrested a fugitive wanted on an Aggravated Murder warrant. 20-year old James E. Watters of Cleveland was wanted in the October 8th homicide of Tracey Collins. Cops say Watters and Collins were talking in the 12000 block of Parkhill Avenue on Cleveland’s east […]

PEPPER PIKE, OH (WOIO) – First the NAACP and now city council…both organizations are now getting involved in a September 23rd incident where Pepper Pike police reportedly pulled a gun on a high school student. The 16-year old Orange football player was walking door to door attempting to sell discount cards for his team when a neighbor called […]

The View cohost Sherri Shepherd will join other stars — including singer Keri Hilson, actress Terri Vaughn and comic Steve Harvey‘s wife Marjorie

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded $18.5 million to a New York City man who was exonerated four years ago after spending more than two decades in prison. Alan Newton was cleared by DNA evidence in 2006. He had been sentenced in 1985 to up to 40 years in prison after being convicted […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded $18.5 million to a New York City man who was exonerated four years ago after spending more than two decades in prison. Alan Newton was cleared by DNA evidence in 2006. He had been sentenced in 1985 to up to 40 years in prison after being convicted […]

The Washington Post reports that a textbook given to fourth-graders in the Commonwealth of Virginia details that thousands of African American soldiers fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most Civil War historians.

Though Kanye West implied that Wal-Mart was behind the banning of his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album cover, the retail chain has a different story.

Virginia Beach Republican Party chair Dave Bartholomew is under fire for an email that he forwarded comparing African Americans to dogs and mocking African Americans for being poor and having a lack of father figures. Here’s the Email. MY DOG I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare. At first the […]

Rand Paul is running for Senator for Kentucky with no political or executive experience at all. The two things he has going for him is his father’s name and his connection to the Tea Party movement. Like his father and the Tea Party movements, he has been tied to racism and white supremacist groups. In […]

Democrats are trying to change the political game by using First Lady Michelle Obama to get voters, especially women, to the polls in November. The Washington Watch roundtable of panelists, BlackAmericaWeb.com contributor Deborah Mathis; Race and Ethnicity Editor for the Associated Press, Sonya Ross; “Roll Call TV” host Robert Traynham; and Sirius XM Radio’s Joe […]

A section of Times Square in New York has been reopened as police investigate a suspicious vehicle, a detective tells FoxNews.com. A man was reported seen running from the vehicle, which started the security scare. Police originally blocked off and cleared pedestrians on 43rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Failed Times Square bomber Faisal […]

For six months, I have lived and worked near ground zero of the worst oil disaster in US history. I’ve traveled on boats hunting thick, reddish peanut butter-colored crude that slowly washed towards the coastal marshes of southern Louisiana. I watched tough, resourceful people of the bayou weep at the sight of the oily tide […]