Category: National

Crenshaw High graduate Lynne Adrienne Duke, described in the Washington Post as a journalist “who brought an emotional clarity to the most trenchant stories, from the crack epidemic that terrorized a Miami housing project once known as ‘the Graveyard’ to the legacy of apartheid South Africa,” died April 19 at her home in Silver Spring. She was 56.

On June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated for his efforts to overturn segregation in Mississippi. Fifty years later, President Barack Obama met with Evers’ widow, now Myrlie Evers-Williams, and the Evers children and grandchildren in the Oval Office before the official ceremony commemorating his death.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Black people are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people despite comparable usage rates, according to a report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — A vacant building being demolished collapsed onto a thrift store in Philadelphia Wednesday morning, trapping more than a dozen people under the rubble, some for hours, city officials said.

MOODY, Tex. — A Texas man died after a swarm of Africanized bees disturbed by his tractor attacked, stinging him more than 1,000 times Saturday.

NOGALES, Mex. — An American woman who was released from a Mexican jail cried out for joy when she crossed the border into Arizona. “I’m home! Finally!” Yanira Maldonado exclaimed.