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Black Churches Discuss Same-Sex Marriage (VIDEO)

Two African-American pastors on opposite sides of the same-sex marriage debate talk to CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield. WATCH:

LIVE VIDEO: President Obama Delivers Barnard College Commencement Address

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Florida A&M President: Band Suspension Will Remain In Place

Source:  Ed Payne and Michael Pearson / CNN The Florida A&M University marching band will remain on suspension through the 2012-2013 academic year while the school works to set new rules following the fatal hazing of a band member, university President James Ammons said in a conference call Monday with trustees. “I was heavily influenced by the need to [...]

LISTEN: Rep. Corrine Brown Discusses Marissa Alexander's 20 Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence And The Stand Your Ground Law

Roland Martin talks with Congresswoman Corrine Brown about the Marissa Alexander case about the 20 yearn mandatory minimum sentence in Alexander’s controversial stand your ground case. DON’T MISS: ROLAND S. MARTIN: Mandatory Minimums The Problem In The Marissa Alexander Case Subscribe to the Roland S. Martin Daily Podcast via iTunes.

A Generation Hobbled By The Soaring Cost Of College

Source: Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren / The New York Times With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts from for-profit colleges or graduate students who owe on many years of education, some of the overextended debtors in years past. Now nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor’s [...]

Warren: Bank Self-Regulation “Wrong And Dangerous” (VIDEO)

Source: CBS News JPMorgan Chase’s admission last week that it lost more than $2 billion in one set of trades should be used as a wake up call to end the practice of banks regulating themselves, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said on Monday. Warren repeated her call for the bank’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, to [...]

JPMorgan Chief Investment Officer Leaving

Source: AP / CBS News NEW YORK – The chief investment officer at JPMorgan Chase (JPM), one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, will retire, the company said Monday. She becomes the first casualty of the bank’s $2 billion trading blunder. The bank said Ina Drew, 55, would retire after more than 30 years [...]

Trustees Consider Fate Of Florida A&M’s Marching Band

Source: Ed Payne / CNN Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees meets Monday to discuss the future of the college’s popular marching band in the aftermath of the hazing-related death of a member. Band director Julian White, who had been with the prestigious band for 40 years, stepped down under pressure last week. He was placed [...]

A Message From Trayvon Martin’s Mother Sybrina Fulton For Mother’s Day (VIDEO)

Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mom, released a video asking parents nationwide to support the Second Chance campaign, a new national campaign working to reform, repeal and prevent passage of new Florida-style “Shoot First” laws around the country. The Second Chance campaign launched after Martin’s death with the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Action [...]

US Army Pioneer Says Male Superiors Mistreated Her Because She’s A Woman

Source: James Dao / he New York Times / MSNBC COLUMBIA, S.C. — When Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King was named the first female commandant of the Army’s elite drill sergeant school in 2009, proponents of gender equality in the military hailed the news as a watershed. But it did not take long for the grumbling [...]