BeaconJournal.com By Phil Trexler, Beacon Journal Staff Writer Posted May 19th 2013   Her daughter has yet to come home. Carmilla Robinson wants no one to forget that. Two weeks have passed. Mother’s Day has come and gone, and yet 19-year-old Taylor Robinson remains missing. On Saturday, a crowd nearing 200 or more joined the [...]

YourBlackWorld.net By Yvette Carnell Posted May 19th 2013     Charles Ramsey rescued three women from their captor. I don’t know what activity Ramsey had been engaged in three weeks ago, or three years ago for that matter,  but on that day, he was a hero. Among black folk, you’d think he’d have been greeted [...]

HuffingtonPost.com By Amanda Terkel Posted May 17th 2013   WASHINGTON — As Republicans are increasingly calling the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attacks a cover-up worse than Watergate and even floating impeachment, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) urged a note of caution on Sunday, saying he wasn’t yet willing to go that far. “With all [...]

NewsNet5.com By Tina Kaufmann Posted May 17th 2013   (GLORIA AND YVONNE POINTER) CLEVELAND – Cleveland police announced charges Wednesday against the man they arrested a day earlier for the 1984 murder of 14-year-old Gloria Pointer. Hernandez Warren, 58, was charged with aggravated murder. His case will now be handed over to the Cuyahoga County [...]

HuffingtonPost.com ByMaryClaire Dale Posted May 15th 2013   PHILADELPHIA — An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies born alive at his rogue clinic dodged a possible death sentence on Tuesday in a hasty post-verdict deal with prosecutors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell waived his right to appeal in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. [...]

Cleveland Metropolitan School District Posted May 13th 2013   ERIC GORDON CEO CMSD AND DAVID QUOLKE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TEACHERS UNION   Metropolitan Schoof District have reached a Tentative Agreement. ‘Ve fuel st.rongly that the new contract will help transform Cleveland s schools and will build on a culture of collaboration that began last year when [...]

BlackBlueDog.net By Yvette Posted May 12th 2013   Italy’s first black Italian Cabinet minister,who was lambasted with racial slurs after her appointment last week, isn’t taking the racial slurs to heart. In fact, she’s defending Italy against charges of racism, saying that the people who’ve berated her are ignorant and don’t represent most Italians. Congolese-born [...]

HuffingtonPost.com By Meghan Barr and Brendan Farrington Posted May 9th 2013 (PHOTO: GRIMILDA FIGUEROA WITH CHILDREN RYAN AND ROSIE)   CLEVELAND — Years before when authorities say Ariel Castro kidnapped two teenage girls and a young woman and held them captive in his basement, he terrorized the mother of his children, viciously beating her and [...]

WashingtonPost.com By Manuel Roig-Franzia Posted May 9th 2013   (PHOTO: DEPUTY CLEVELAND POLICE CHIEF ED TOMBA PRESS CONFERENCE) CLEVELAND — Authorities filed kidnapping and rape charges Wednesday against a man accused of holding a trio of young women captive in a rundown house for the past decade, but his two brothers were absolved of involvement [...]

TheDailyBeast.com By Abby Haglage Posted May 8th 2013   In a matter of hours, a dishwasher in Cleveland went from a good neighbor to an international hero. Abigail Haglage rounds up what we know so far about the honorable Charles Ramsey. As the city of Cleveland rejoices over the rescue of three kidnapped women, the [...]