‘Justice’ Archives
Tennessee GOP Staffer depicts President Obama as a Golliwog
Sherri Goforth depicts President Obama as a Golliwog Sherri Goforth, a staffer in the office of Tennessee Grand Old Party (GOP) state senator Diane Black emailed a picture of the American presidents. The problem is the slot representing the 44th president, President Obama, [Read More]
Does Israel really really really want peace?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In his speech on Sunday at the Bar Elan University, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel could accept a peace agreement with a "demilitarized Palestinian state" as its neighbor among other things: [Read More]
Judge Sotomayor – Qualified and Desiring Supreme Court Nominee
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 54 year-old, nominated to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Tuesday, May 26, 2009, will be recorded as a great day in the history of the United States of America. As was expected, President Barack Obama exercised his [Read More]
Rapper T.I. new address Forrest City, Arkansas 72335
T. I. mug shotRapper Clifford Harris, Jr. popularly known as T.I. is expected to have a change of address by midday Tuesday, May 26, 2009. His new address will be in Forrest City, Arkansas, Zip Code 72335 at a minimum security prison. Just in case you plan on calling him, [Read More]
Rapper Dolla gunned down in Los Angeles
Dolla's CD Cover Photo Source: Dolla Myspace web siteDespite not knowing about Dolla, it saddens me to hear about another young person getting kill especially while trying to make some positive changes to his life. His killing comes 12 years after rapper, Notorious B.I.G., [Read More]
Is Familycide the White Men Solution to Hardship?
If you don’t know what familycide is, do not feel bad because few months ago, I had not heard of it or knew what it meant. The word familycide is a combination of the words family and suicide. If I was given the task to define the word for Webster Dictionary, I [Read More]
Resolution to undo U.S. racist crime against boxer John Johnson
John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing ChampionOn April 1, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representative Peter King (R-NY) introduced a resolution to pardon John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African [Read More]
T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the Rapper Goes to Jail
Rapper T.I. aka Clifford Harris heads to prsion in May. Photo: Bazemore/APT.I., real name is Clifford Harris, the Grammy-award winning artist was sentenced Friday in Atlanta to one year and one day behind bars on federal gun charges. Two years ago, he was arrested [Read More]
Detroit’s Kwame Kilpartick released from prison
At 12:35 a.m. Tuesday morning, Detroit‘s former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, 38-year-old, strolled out of the Wayne County Jail. He said nothing to reporters as he was whisked into a Chevy Suburban. The former mayor spent 99 days in an isolated cell. "He’s [Read More]
Life Term for robbery – Cruel and Unusual for Ian Manuel?
Ian Manuel - sentenced to die in prison for an offense in a robbery and non-homicidal caseIn 1990, when Ian Manuel was 13, gang members instructed him to commit a robbery. During the botched robbery attempt in downtown Tampa, Florida, Ian shot and wounded a woman. He turned [Read More]
Life Term for Rape – Cruel and Unusual for Joe Sullivan?
Joe Harris Sullivan, now 35-year-old, is still serving a life term for a non-homicide crime committed, since 13-year-old, for raping a 72-year-old elderly white woman. Image Source:Agence France-Presse/Getty Images On May 4, 1989, someone robbed a 72-year-old White woman in [Read More]
Chicago School bans visiting fans from sport events
The Public League of the Chicago Public School (CPS) announced that it is taking striking and necessary actions by banning fans of visiting teams from attending sports events. This dramatic measure is to curb a rash of violence that has erupted at CPS basketball games. [Read More]
3.4 million Stalking Victimization in the United States
According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) today, an estimated 3.4 million persons identified themselves as victims of stalking during a 12-month period in 2005 and 2006. About half of these victims [Read More]
Son of Former Liberian Prez Taylor sentenced
By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo A sketch of Charles Chuckie Taylor in courtCharles "Chuckie" Taylor, 31-year-old, U.S.-born citizen and the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor Sr. was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for charges including torture and [Read More]
Jim Crow, Roland Burris and the 111th Congress
By Charles Mombo Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris With an uncomfortable resemblance of scenes from the Jim Crow era, the Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris, who is an African American was escorted out of the Capitol in the rain after being turned away when he [Read More]
Running Amok – Black Youths Murder Rate
By Charles Mombo A scene from a music video with an African American male pointing a gun Both James Alan Fox, Ph.D., the Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Law, Policy and Society and Marc L. Swatt, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. of [Read More]
Judge jailed African American for wearing hijab
An African American woman wearing hijab photo credit: Dexter BrowneMs. Lisa Valentine, 40, an African American Muslim woman was arrested on Tuesday for refusing to take off her head scarf prior to entering the courthouse security checkpoint in Douglasville, a suburb west of [Read More]
Illinois Governor Blagojevich in Federal Custody
Illinois' Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Illinois’ Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was arrested this morning at his Chicago Northside home for conspiring to sell an appointment to president-elect Barack Obama’s recently open US senate seat, prosecutors said. Patrick [Read More]
Chicago Transit rape suspect will not face charges
Chicago Transit rape suspectA suspect in the rape of a woman on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line platform at Clyburn has surrendered to police, but he will not face charges. Investigators say the woman was waiting for train on the CTA Platform at 1599 N. Clybourn [Read More]
Custom official arrested for harboring illegal alien
Lorraine Henderson, Boston, Massachusetts-area port director Lorraine Henderson, Boston, Massachusetts-area port director for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was arrested today on suspicion of encouraging one of her cleaning ladies, an alleged illegal immigrant to [Read More]
FBI Arrest Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo Mayor Larry LangfordBIRMINGHAM, Alabama – FBI spokesman Paul Daymond, announced today that Mayor Larry Langford, 60-year-old, was arrested and taken into custody around 7 a.m. on federal bribery and fraud charges connected to a [Read More]
Couple sued McDonald over nude photos
McDonaldA Fayetteville, Arkansas husband and his wife are suing McDonald’s for $3m after nude photos of the wife, which were on her husband’s cell phone, appeared on the Internet. The husband, Phillip Sherman says he accidentally left his phone, with the [Read More]
VP Cheney Indicted for Organized Criminal Activity
Willacy County CourthouseKRGV-TV, News Channel 5 of Weslaco, Texas is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in Willacy County, a South Texas county. The seven [Read More]
It Pays to be a Convicted Senator
Convicted Felon Sen. Ted StevensUnited States Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and the most senior Republican in the Senate, is now a convicted felon. A jury on Monday found Stevens, 84-years-old, guilty on seven counts of trying to hide more than $250,000 in free home [Read More]
Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets 4 months
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick & Christine BeattyWayne County Circuit Judge David Groner ordered Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to prison for 4 months. The sentence was announced nine months after a newspaper story was published about text messages that ignited a [Read More]
Was McCain involved in secret arm sales to Iran?
By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo For: http://www.ChocolateCity.cc/blog Reagan and McCainIt is a popular and well known idiom that “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones!,” or should I paraphrase the idiom by saying “people who live in 7 glass [Read More]
McCain and the Keating Five, guilty by association
By: Charles Mombo For: http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog The nerve and audicity of Sen. John McCain and his dumb vice presidential candidate to launched an all out swift boat-style attacks against Barack instead of addressing the country’s real problems. The fact is [Read More]
Sgt. Rafael Peralta family may reject military’s medal
The mother of the late Sgt. Rafael Peralta, Rosa Peralta, said she may reject the new medal, the military plans to award to her son for valor. The office of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates downgraded the award after a special investigation involving medical experts, a [Read More]
Simpson goes to trial without Cochran or Black Juriors
O. J. SimpsonThe O.J. Simpson murder case was a highly publicized U.S. criminal trial in which O.J. Simpson, former NFL star and actor, was accused of killing his white ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her white friend Ronald Goldman. The County believed it had a solid [Read More]
Duke Rape Accuser’s Questionable Last Dance
Crystal Gayle MangumSince three former Duke Lacrosse players; David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, were declared innocent of rape and assault charges, the alleged victim in the highly publicized Duke Lacrosse case, Crystal Gayle Mangum, has remained out of [Read More]
Rapper Da Brat gets three years for assault
Da BratDa Brat was assigned a new zip code, Dekalb County Prison, for three years on Friday for assault. The recordings artist was sentenced to three years in Dekalb County prison for hitting a hostess in the head with a rum bottle during an altercation at a suburban [Read More]
Sharon Brown versus Victoria Osteen in Houston’s court
Flight attendant Sharon BrownVictoria Osteen, the wife of TV evangelist and mega-church pastor Joel Osteen was in a Houston, Texas court on Friday regarding a lawsuit brought against her by Sharon Brown. Brown, a Continental Airlines flight attendant is accusing Victoria [Read More]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Guilty of the freedom to choose
By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 38-year-old, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She was raised a Muslim and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya. In 1992, Hirsi Ali moved to the Netherlands as a refugee escaping a forced marriage [Read More]
Donaghy: I brought shame on myself and family
Folding his arms but showing no other emotion, the 41-year-old Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy apologized to the court by saying "I brought shame on myself and my family," during his sentencing today in Brooklyn federal court. Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty in [Read More]
Bush gives the OK to execute Black Army Private
Ronald A. Gray, 42President Bush on Monday approved the execution of Ronald A. Gray, 42, a former army cook and an Army private. Ronald A. Gray is an African American. President George W. Bush will be the first president in over a half-century to affirmed a death sentence [Read More]
Rapper DMX raps in court after denying charges
Rapper DMXRapper DMX raps in court after denying charges The 37-year-old, Rapper DMX, a.k.a (Earl Simmons) appeared in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix yesterday and pleaded not guilty to a pair of felony theft charges. He also treated reporters to an off-the-cuff [Read More]
Bush pardons himself against possible war crime
President George W. Bush U.S. President George W. Bush has given himself and members of his administration immunity against possible war crimes. Why would George W. Bush grant himself immunity if he did not do any thing wrong, one might ask? Well, the American-led [Read More]
Jesse Jackson: Barack telling niggers how to behave
Barack Obama & Rev. JackosnFox News confirmed Wednesday that Rev. Jesse Jackson also used the word nigger during his recent off-air gaffe where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama for talking down to Blacks. Fox News held back the nigger portion of the [Read More]
Rev. Jackson wants to cut Obama’s nuts off
By: http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog Barack Obama and Jesse JacksonOn Sunday as Jackson was talking to a fellow interviewee, Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, UnitedHealth Group executive, an open microphone picked up Jackson whispering, "See, Barack’s been talking down [Read More]
Is the Crack Law Racially Bias?
By: http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog Smoking CrackOn December 09, 2007, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that judges can impose shorter prison terms for crack cocaine possession below the current recommended term of the 100:1 (cocaine powder versus crack cocaine) [Read More]
Father strangles daughter in barbaric honor Killing
Chaudhry RashidIn another apparent honor killing, A Georgia father of Pakistani descent allegedly strangled his 25-year-old daughter with a bungee cord because she wanted to get out of an arranged marriage to a man she had not seen in three months, according to police in [Read More]
Indian man gets life for black daughter-in-law death
The case of an apparent honor killing concluded with a life sentence to life in prison without parole for a native Indian father-in-law. Chiman Rai 69, an Indiana businessman and a former Maths instructor at a historically black college, Alcorn State University in [Read More]
D-Day: California 06/16/08
With a state Supreme Court ruling set to become a law on June 16, 2008, there is much anticipation amongst gay couple that are ready to tie the knot. The California Supreme Court, approved same-sex nuptials in a historic ruling on May 15. Marriage to same-sex or [Read More]
McCain and Obama reacts to Guantanamo ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 ruling rebuked the Bush’s administration for the third time for its treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The court ruled that the 270 foreign suspects have the right under the US Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian [Read More]
Gay Marriage in California
On Thursday, May 15, 2008, California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, “does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.” The justices wrote [Read More]
Chicken Comes Home to Roost
During one of Malcolm X speeches, he said “chickens have come home to roost.” he was believed that he was speaking on the occasion of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What did Rev. Jeremiah Wright mean when he said “chickens have come home to roost.” [Read More]
Executors of Sean Bell Not Guilty
The scene unfolded outside the courthouse Friday as three police officers were cleared of all charges in the 2006 shooting of Bell, who died in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day. On the dawn of his wedding day, Bell, 23, was killed by four rounds while leaving his [Read More]
