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George Zimmerman’s Donations Spike On His Return To Jail

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Source: Matt Gutman, Seni Tienabeso, Matthew Rosenbaum / ABC News Donations to the legal defense fund of George Zimmerman have surged since the accused killer of Miami teenager Trayvon Martin has been ordered back to jail, his lawyer told ABC News today. Attorney Mark O’Mara said Zimmerman’s online defense fund has been receiving about $1,000 [...]

Official: Pilot Signaled Trouble Moments Before Crash That Killed 163 In Nigeria

Source: Vladimir Duthiers and Chelsea J. Carter / CNN Lagos, Nigeria - The pilot of the Dana Air plane that crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, radioed that the plane was having trouble just minutes earlier, an airline official told CNN on Monday. The details emerged as search and rescue crews worked to recover bodies from [...]

WASHINGTON WATCH: What’s The Ask, What Should We Demand From Politicians? (VIDEO)

Polls show that a vast majority of African-Americans will cast their vote for Pres. Barack Obama in November, just as African-Americans did in 2008. In fact, he got about 96 percent of the Black vote in 2008, which was even higher than Al Gore’s 92 percent, that he got in 2000. But that doesn’t mean [...]

JOHNATHAN CAPEHART: Stop Waiting For And Start Paying Attention To Our First Black President

Source: Johnathan Capehart / The Washington Post Over the last three and a half years, there have been three silly political storylines that have driven me absolutely nuts because it was plainly apparent that they were not true. One was that author, reality television star and former half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin was going to [...]

FREDRICK HARRIS: Still Waiting For Our First Black President

Source: Fredrick Harris / The Washington Post The speaker’s voice boomed like a preacher’s as he addressed a crowd of black churchgoers in a college gym. He was talking about a “miracle baby” whose mother, still pregnant, had been shot in the stomach on her way to the grocery store during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. As [...]

GARY L. FLOWERS: United Airlines’ Unfriendly Skies For Black Pilots

Gary L. Flowers Executive Director & CEO Black Leadership Forum, Inc. Last week twenty-four long-term employees of United Continental Holdings, United Airlines, and Continental Airlines filed a lawsuit in San Francisco, California alleging race discrimination, retaliation and harassment in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and State Fair Employment laws. I vividly remember [...]

Judge Revokes Zimmerman’s Bond In Trayvon Martin Killing; Gives Him 48 Hours To Surrender

Source: Jamie Novogrod / MSNBC A Florida judge on Friday revoked the bail for George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case, saying he had misled the court about his finances, and ordered him to present himself to the court within 48 hours. Prosecutors alleged that Zimmerman, 28, misled the court regarding his finances when $150,000 [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Judge Revokes Zimmerman’s Bond In Trayvon Martin Killing; Gives Him 48 Hours To Surrender

Source: Jamie Novogrod / MSNBC A Florida judge on Friday revoked the bail for George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case, saying he had misled the court about his finances, and ordered him to present himself to the court within 48 hours. Prosecutors alleged that Zimmerman, 28, misled the court regarding his finances when $150,000 [...]

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part Of New Voter-Registration Law

Source: Karen Gullo / Bloomberg.com Florida’s voter-registration law was blocked, in part, by a federal judge who ruled that some of the restrictions imposed by the statute on groups seeking to sign up voters are unconstitutional. The Florida law, which regulates community-based voter registration, requires groups to deliver voter applications to the state within 48 [...]

2nd FAMU Band Member Beaten On Bus Before Drum Major Died

Source: Mike Morris / Atlanta Journal-Constitution On the same day of Robert Champion’s hazing death on a Florida A&M University band bus, another band member on the same bus was severely beaten, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Thursday. Requesta Harden, a 21-year-old drummer from Pompano Beach, told authorities investigating Champion’s death that she was riding on Bus C from [...]