Roland Martin and Will Cain joined Carol Costello in the CNN Newsroom to discuss a proposed super PAC’s plans to use Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments against America to defeat President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.
Source: MSNBC A federal judge sharply critical of New York City police tactics granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming officers’ stop-and-frisk policy discriminates against blacks and Latinos. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan said in a written ruling that there was “overwhelming evidence” that the centralized stop-and-frisk program led to thousands of unlawful [...]
Fans celebrate the life of the “Godfather of Go-Go” in front of the Howard Theatre in Washington. WATCH:
Source: Julianne Pepitone / CNN Money NEW YORK – Facebook’s long road to an initial public offering is coming to an end. Late Thursday, it will fill in one last piece of the puzzle: Its final IPO price. That’s the price at which Facebook’s underwriters (including lead banker Morgan Stanley) will sell shares to their clients, [...]
Source: David Goldman / CNN Money NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is planning this summer to begin forcing smartphone customers with unlimited data plans to switch to tiered plans when they upgrade, the company’s chief financial officer told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday. At the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference in Boston, Verizon CFO Fran [...]
Source: Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press Detroit police said they don’t believe a group of young attackers knew they had targeted a prominent Detroit pastor and gospel recording artist when they beat and carjacked him Wednesday afternoon. Marvin Winans said he was pumping gas at a Citgo station on Davison and Linwood when a [...]
Source: WXYZ.com DETROIT – Pastor Marvin Winans was robbed and carjacked at a Detroit gas station Wednesday afternoon. Winans was at the Citgo Gas Station at Linwood and the Davison when he was robbed. The carjackers robbed him and took his deep purple Infiniti QX56 SUV. The license plate number on the vehicle is 0DRT73. Detroit [...]
Source: M. Alex Johnson / MSNBC A police officer working as a school resource officer in northern Mississippi twice stunned the mother of a middle school pupil with a Taser during a heated argument at the school Wednesday morning. The woman — identified as Michele Lee Eaton, 39, of Saltillo, about 15 miles north of Tupelo [...]
Source: Chris Richards / The Washington Post Chuck Brown, the gravelly voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk’s percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at the Johns Hopkins University hospital in Baltimore. He was 75. The death, from complications from sepsis, [...]
Source: Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post Reporters covering Mitt Romney’s campaign sent out a volley of tweets on Wednesday, complaining that they had been prevented from asking the presumptive Republican nominee questions at an event in Florida. Trouble between the campaign and the press apparently started at the beginning of the day. Sara Murray, a Wall [...]
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LISTEN: Roland Martin, Sugar Bear Discuss The Legacy Of Chuck Brown, The Godfather Of Go-Go Music
