By: NATALIE THOMPSON

Last month, D.C. officials announced the city would be starting the new year with a budget gap of $127 million. With further cut backs projected for the health care, housing and transportation sectors, finding ways to increase the city’s revenue is ...

By: ANGELA P. SMITH

Academy Award-nominated film director Spike Lee is noted for his films dealing with controversial, social and political issues.  He created “4 Little Girls,” a historical documentary about the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Bi...

By: DANIELLE KWATENG

With no open windows or doors in sight for the winter chill to seep through, the solemn crowd of around 300 sat, frozen, as photos of Prof. Harold L. Gray, Sr. flashed across a widescreen.   Last Friday, three weeks after his passing, students, ...

By: VANESSA ROZIER

Fed up from almost 900 deaths and over 3,000 injuries in Gaza City, Howard University students joined thousands on Saturday to protest Israel’s attacks and the United States’ support of it. Meeting at the flagpole at noon, about 20 Howard stud...

By: Natalie Thompson

WASHINGTON — Gov. Tim Kaine or Virginia was officially introduces as the new chairmen of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday at a press conference held by President-elect Barack Obama. Kaine, who will end his governorship at the end of 200...

By: KRISTOPHER OWENS

The Sierra Club is the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States.  The Sierra Club has over 700,000 members in chapters located all over the country, with the a goal of supporting and proposing the policies that he...

By: LAURENCE ILIFF

MEXICO CITY _ Elementary school teachers are the latest victims of an exploding extortion racket in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as criminal gangs threaten educators to either hand over their coming Christmas bonuses or see harm done to their...

By: DAVID LIGHTMAN

WASHINGTON _ If there’s a single moment that explains why Congress refused Thursday to give the ailing American auto industry immediate help, it came the day before when Rep. Brad Sherman asked company executives to raise their hands if they’d...

By: Omari Evans

Information leaked Tuesday that President-elect Obama strongly wants Eric H. Holder Jr. to become the next U.S. attorney general. If sworn in, Holder will be the first black man to be the head of the U.S. Justice Department. “No one has been of...

By: Jada Smith

5.  The new presidential administration hasn’t even taken office yet and already the Justice Department is trying to get their act together! According to Cnn.com, a jury awarded $2.5 million to a teen beaten by Klan members.  Jordan Gruver...

By: Omari Evans

Before there was a black president, blacks fought tirelessly to obtain positions of power in America for hundreds of years.  Many scholars believe that during Reconstruction, which took place from 1860 to 1870 and followed the Civil War, blacks were ...

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Is it just me, or has fashion at the Mecca been in a serious state of remission? I’ve noticed this for quite some time, but it wasn’t until recently that I decided to share my thoughts.  Take Howard’s Homecoming festivities for exam...

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Although President-elect Barack Obama has yet to take office, the decision-making process has already begun and it is showing insight into the type of administration that Obama will run. Only a few days after he was elected, Obama relinquished his Senate ...

By: Joshua Mitchell

Album: Murs for President Artist: Murs Label: Warner Bros. Records Release Date: September 30, 2008     Introducing Murs, the dread locked Los Angeles rapper who, stylistically, is a hybrid of your favor west coast rapper and your favorite ...

By: Natasha Bethea

Album: I Am...Sasha Fierce Artist: Beyonce Label: Sony Release Date: November 18, 2008     The music world welcomes a new family member to R&B.  She is bold, flashy, and powerful.  For many years, she has been a secret kept by...

By: COURTNEY MIMS

California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is in legal hot water after refusing to release $250 million as the first installment of an $8 billion fund for upgrades of prison medical facilities. In late October, Judge Thelton E. Henderson ordered the stat...

By: CHIOMA OTA

Its policies and strategies have come under scrutiny, there have been conflicts within the organization’s 192 member states and an on-going disagreement over sovereignty vs. humanitarian intervention; however, despite criticisms, the United Nations ...

By: TAMILA MYLES

The United States entered 2008 with a slumping housing market, a mortgage crisis and a declining dollar value. With the slumping economy and the increasing number of families losing homes and jobs in the United States, America may also be ending the year ...

By: Omari Evans

After year-long meetings and deals between Iraq and the United States, 150,000 U.S. troops are set to withdraw from Iraq by 2011. The terms were agreed upon by Iraqi Cabinet members Sunday during a vote.  The White House openly supports the agreement...

By: Amirah Bey

The election of Barack Obama overshadowed a relatively mild election night for democrats a in Congress. In a time of elevated anti-Bush and consequently anti-republican sentiment, many expected the democrats to create a filibuster in the Senate – ho...