LOCAL NEWS
Wal-Mart raises funds, questions in black HubRetail giant Wal-Mart is the world's largest private employer, with estimated net revenues of $378.8 billion for 2008. It is also one of the world's most generous companies. Last year, its philanthropic arm, the Wal-Mart Foundation, donated $296 million to charities around the world - including many organizations geared towards African Americans. More » |
Council to hold hearing on school street worker planAmid growing concerns over youth violence in Boston, City Councilor-at-Large Michael F. Flaherty will convene a hearing next Wednesday to discuss a pilot program designed to bring city street workers into the Boston Public Schools (BPS). More » |
MIRA's Ali Noorani feted at State HouseStanding in the empty Senate Chamber located directly beneath the State House's iconic golden dome, a dozen tourists gaze in awed silence at the room's sunburst ceiling and august marble busts. Emerging through the wooden double doors into the hall, the tourists marvel at the chamber?s history and architectural beauty. More » |
A look of recognition: Inside the life of a Harvard Square panhandlerEvery time I go to Harvard Square, I pretend John Johnson doesn't exist. I don't want to see him. I don't want to talk to him. But he always talks to me when I enter the CVS Pharmacy. More » |
As 'Fair Housing Act' hits 40, some goals still unmetHer name is Adrienne, and her story is all too typical for a single mother in search of affordable housing. More » |
Community center to help Lost Boys stay connectedARLINGTON - Created by the Lincoln-based nonprofit Sudanese Education Fund (SEF), the Southern Sudanese Community Center, located here, is intended to be a place where the Lost Boys of Sudan who have come to Greater Boston can keep their culture alive. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
$1.5M tribute a celebration of Andrew Young's legacyATLANTA - Atlanta businessman Charles Loudermilk never tried to buy Andrew Young's friendship, but he doesn?t mind paying for it now. More » |
St. Louis job project aimed at 1,000 minority workersST. LOUIS - State Rep. Rodney Hubbard, D-St. Louis, said he hears from constituents nearly every day, complaining of a lack of jobs for urban blacks. More » |
Obama, Clinton spar over 'elitism,' guns and votesWASHINGTON - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are attacking each other with some of the toughest rhetoric of the presidential campaign, with eight days remaining in the fierce battle for votes in Pennsylvania, an economically hard-hit state that holds the biggest remaining primary. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Leaders discuss Zimbabwe crisis without MugabeLUSAKA, Zambia - Southern African leaders discussed Zimbabwe's deepening electoral crisis at a marathon 12-hour summit that ended before dawn last Sunday with a weak declaration and marked failure to criticize the absent President Robert Mugabe. More » |
Haitian lawmakers oust PM following deadly price hikePORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian lawmakers last Saturday dismissed Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis, hoping to defuse widespread anger over rising food prices that had led to days of deadly protests and looting. More » |
