TheGrio.com
By Sophia A. Nelson
Posted September 2nd 2010
From the NAACP’s official website:
We are satisfied that on August 28 [at Restoring Honor Rally], there were few overt signs of racism — however, we remain committed to holding the Tea Party to their word. Our coalition watchdog website, TeaPartyTracker.org, will serve as evidence of this [...]

Newsnet5.com/WEWS_TV
Posted August 31st 2010
Cleveland schools CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders spoke Thursday at the opening of a new high school for 9th and 10th grade students.
New Tech will be housed on the campus of East Tech High School.
Part of the campus has been completely gutted to make way for a new 21st [...]

Aol.com
by Dana Chivvis

Posted August 30th 2010
Nine states and the District of Columbia have been announced as the second-round winners in the federal Race to the Top competition. In March, Delaware and Tennessee won the first round of grants, leaving $3.4 billion of the $4.35 billion pot of grant money to be [...]

TheGrio.com
By Sandra Lilley
Posted August 30th 2010
Are young black men ready for the increasingly brutal, knowledge-based job market in the U.S.? The answer is a resounding “no,” according to a new report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010. Calling it a “national crisis,” [...]

Associated Press
By Phillip Elliott
Posted August 27th 2010
WASHINGTON — Glenn Beck says it’s just a coincidence his Restoring Honor rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial will take place on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Civil rights veterans are skeptical.
“This is [...]

Investopedia.com

By Claire Bradley
Posted August 18th 2010
The recession has hit most working Americans in the pocketbook, but some industries have been hit much harder than others. Construction, sales, real estate, and finance were hit hard by the real estate bust; for those lucky enough to hold on to their jobs at all, [...]

Associated Press
Posted August 15th 2010

COLUMBUS: Ohio Highway Patrol troopers say they’re seeing an “alarming” increase in cases of identity theft.
The patrol says it has investigated 248 cases so far this year, compared to 114 by this time in 2009. The agency says the cases involve fraudulent identification discovered by troopers during traffic [...]

Associated Press

Posted August 13th 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation’s toughest job markets.

The Treasury Department says it will send $2 billion to 17 states that have unemployment rates higher than the national average for a year. They will use the [...]

Associated Press
By Suzanne Choney

Posted August 12th 2010
Trojan horse started running in July and continues now, security firm says!
A Trojan horse planted by criminals was used to steal more than $1 million from the accounts of British customers of the same online bank since last month, according to an international digital security company, [...]

DailyFinance.com
Posted August 10th 2010
Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, who considers himself a lifelong Republican libertarian, wants all the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 repealed, reports The New York Times. His position is contrary to the Republican stance in the discussion on this issue, currently among the most heated in Washington, [...]