Category: Featured News, State/National News
Gov. Cuomo Launches Statewide Relief Effort to Help Puerto Rico
By Staff – Gov. Andrew Cuomo has launched the Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico, after the governor...
Update: Cornell Student Charged in Alleged Racially-Based Attack Apologizes
By Staff – (Update, Sept. 21) – Nineteen-year-old John Greenwood, a white Cornell student charged with beating a black...
Waters, Morial, Sanders Push “Black Wealth 2020” as ‘Urgent’ Movement Spreads
By Hazel Trice Edney – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Black Wealth 2020, a new movement aiming to change the course of Black...
Thousands of Celebrities, Luminaries and Ordinary People Bid Dick Gregory Farewell
By Barrington Salmon – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Several thousand mourners packed into a Landover, Md. church listened as...
Bias Against Hiring African-Americans Hasn’t Budged
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Rates of discrimination against African Americans in field experiments of hiring did not decline from 1990 to...
Former St. Louis Police Officer Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Black Man
By Staff – A former St. Louis police officer was cleared of first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a black man...
New York State AG Issues Consumer Alert After Equifax Breach
By Staff – New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a consumer alert following the report that Equifax...
U.S. Department of Justice Won’t Charge Officers in Freddie Gray Case
By Staff – The U.S. Department of Justice will not bring charges against six Baltimore, Maryland officers who were involved...
State, Local Officials Commemorate 16th Anniversary of Sept. 11
By Staff – Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered remarks to commemorate the sixteenth anniversary of Sept. 11 on Monday, honoring the...
Black Immigrant Organization Angry about Trump Rescinding DACA
By Frederick H. Lowe – (TriceEdneyWire.com) -The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the nation’s largest black-led...
