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  • Prince Composed Theme Music for MSNBC's Tamron Hall

    Prince composed new theme music for MSNBC’s Tamron Hall: The host of News Nation unveiled the new music recently and blew the competition out the water, the Huffington Post reports. That’s because it was composed and performed by none other than the maestro himself. That Prince does like the beautiful women! First lady Michelle Obama…

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  • Prison-Rape 'Joke' About Kwame Kilpatrick's Conviction

    Many Detroiters reacted positively to news that former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted in federal court of 24 charges related to corruption during his tenure at City Hall, the Huffington Post reports. He was immediately ordered to jail on Monday. A radio station may have taken things too far, however, when hosts made an apparent…

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  • Slain 6-Month-Old: Her Dad Was the Target

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  • Kimani Gray Vigil: Was There Really a Riot?

    Did a vigil for Kimani Gray, who was shot and killed over the weekend by police on a Brooklyn, N.Y., street, turn riotous on Monday night? News reports are unclear. The Daily News reports that anger over Gray’s death triggered a riot during which projectiles were hurled at cops, car windows smashed and a pharmacy…

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  • Voting Rights Act: Would Congress Reaffirm Section 5?

    Congress rejected major changes to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in 2006, but not without a fight: If the Supreme Court rules Section 5 unconstitutional and sends it to Congress to fix, there may be hurdles to overcome in getting it reaffirmed, the Huffington Post reports, especially with a more divided Republican Party…

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  • Bill Clinton Visits Haiti to Promote Investment

    Former President Bill Clinton touched down in Haiti on Sunday for a two-day visit to help promote investment in the struggling nation’s agriculture sector, the Associated Press reports. Clinton, who serves as the United Nations’ special envoy to Haiti, arrived with a delegation that will visit an agriculture school, a coffee-processing plant and a brewery,…

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  • Whose Funeral Is It?

    African-American-owned funeral homes in Chicago and from across the nation staged a procession of empty hearses Sunday on the city’s South Side to underscore the toll that gun violence is taking on Chicago’s black youths, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Police escorted more than 20 hearses through afternoon traffic, causing at least one driver to stop…

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  • Kwame Kilpatrick Found Guilty in Federal Trial

    The Huffington Post is reporting that a jury has found former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick guilty of multiple counts of racketeering and exortion, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false tax returns. Both Kilpatrick and contractor Bobby Ferguson were found guilty on most counts. Kilpatrick’s 71-year-old father, Bernard Kilpatrick, was only found…

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  • Sotomayor Condemns Prosecutor's Racially Charged Question

    Reuters is reporting that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, Sotomayor took the unusual step of writing a statement to accompany the nine-member Supreme Court’s rejection of the criminal case, saying, “I hope never to…

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  • Students Wear KKK Outfits to Hockey Game

    Fresh from our WTH files: a report out of North Dakota that three students were photographed wearing Ku Klux Klan-style robes and hoods at a state semifinal hockey game. The students, who attend Red River High School in Grand Forks, were seated in the stands on Friday night to watch their school play against Davies…

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