LOCAL NEWS
Running with RFK, Rafer Johnson looks back on the 1968 campaignWhen Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson signed on with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's insurgent 1968 presidential campaign, the commitment came with a price. More » |
UMass-Boston prof critical of South African leadersFourteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa has emerged as one of the continent's premier powers. But it is still a country in transition. Racial strife between the country's white minority and the black majority is still a problem, and new challenges, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic and widespread violent crime, are draining the country's resources. More » |
Victim of police chase car crash still seeks settlementEmanuelle Ancoin doesn't remember standing at Tremont Street and Columbus Avenue on a Saturday in January of 1997, waiting to cross the street. She has no recollection of the police chase that changed her life - neither the sirens of the pursuing police car, nor the screeching of tires that came before the fleeing vehicle jumped the sidewalk and knocked her 15 feet into the air. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
In speech, Obama confronts racial division in AmericaPHILADELPHIA - Barack Obama unsparingly criticized his longtime pastor's words while strongly defending the man himself Tuesday in a politically risky speech that appealed to the country to overcome racism and the black anger and white resentment it spawns. More » |
Clinton apologizes to blacks for Ferraro, Katrina responseWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something last Wednesday night that she almost never does. More » |
Paterson comfortable in new role as New York's governorALBANY, N.Y. - David Paterson has been known around the Capitol for 20 years as a quiet guy, self-effacing and unlikely to talk about himself or his disability without prompting. More » |
'A more perfect union' An excerpt from the remarks of Sen. Barack ObamaI am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. More » |
Supreme Court accepts Mass. crime lab caseWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether prosecutors can use crime lab reports as evidence without having the forensic analyst who prepared them testify at trial. More » |
