President Barack Obama gave a partisan-tinged speech to dedicate a new memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., likening the battle for racial equality to his political struggles in a divided Washington.
President Barack Obama invoked Dr. Martin Luther King in voicing support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, who are organizing protests throughout the U.S., adding that protesters do not need to demonize financial industry employees.
Thousands of people, including President Barack Obama, flocked to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C., to honor the deceased leader who spearheaded the nation's civil rights movement.
Steve Tausan, a notorious sergeant-at-arms member for the California Hells Angels biker gang, was killed while attending the funeral of Angels boss Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew, in San Jose on Saturday.
Thousands of Americans gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to dedicate a memorial to the nation's foremost civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The ceremony was postponed from a date in August, due to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain believes he can win the support of many Southern black voters. Don't believe for a minute that he can't.
The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a class action suit to block South Carolina's anti-immigration law from going into effect next year, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and will lead to the detention of Hispanics. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing South Carolina's law, slated to go into effect Jan. 1.
As for Cain, he has handled the slings and arrows thrust upon him with humor, charm and aplomb.
Matthew Shepard still remembered 13 years after his death.
Tahrir Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York -- popular anger against entrenching power elites is spreading around the world.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, leader of the center-right pro-market Civic Platform (PO) party, won re-election in Poland Sunday night. For the first time since the fall of communism in 1989, the major political party in Poland has maintained its grip on power. The fairly fought election in the formerly communist country establishes the country's democratic and economic stability.
The Occupy Wall Street protest earned more prominent celebrity support Monday, as Kanye West and Russell Simmons showed up in Zuccotti Park.
A video clip, which received nearly 160,000 views, of protesters discussing whether U.S. Rep. John Lewis should leave without speaking to a crowd of more than a hundred people on Saturday in Atlanta surfaced over the weekend and received just as much controversy as viewership.
Herman Cain is red hot. After winning the Florida Straw Poll, the Republican candidate for president has surged to the top of many polls in recent weeks. Yet perhaps because Cain, a former Godfather's Pizza CEO has never held an elected office, many American's profess they don't know much about him. Thus, here are 10 important things to know about Herman Cain, a GOP presidential race front-runner, courtesy of tidbits found in his new autobiography published last week, This is Herma...
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced on Friday, and for the first time, three women split the prize. But, after a weekend of celebration, peace still isn't ubiquitous in either Liberia or Yemen, the homes of the laureates.
The more I read about Herman Cain, the more I like about Herman Cain.
While Steve Jobs' death is being talked by many and posts of “Steve Jobs RIP” are piling up in Twitter, Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket at the Apple co-founder’s funeral, although the funeral details have not been revealed to the public.
Fred Shuttlesworth, a prominent civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, died in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday. He was 89.
As the demonstration gains momentum and institutional support, the protestors may need to alter their tactics if they want to have staying power
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain believes he can win the support of many Southern black voters. Don't believe for a minute that he can't.
Christian pastor Yucef Nadarkhani, who is facing execution in Iran on apostasy charges, could be put to death any time as he has refused to recant his Christian faith in court three times so far this week.
As several U.S. states fight to enact stricter immigration laws, several sources have reported a shocking practice that has occurred in more than one state: shackling pregnant women to their hospital bed during childbirth.
