Articles Posted by Front Page News
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Elena Popp
Elena Popp is an attorney in private practice specializing enforcing the rights of tenants to live in decent, safe, and affordable housing. She was the founder and former Executive Director of the Eviction Defense Network, a social entrepreneurship project dedicated to ensuring access to justice to the 70,000 tenants that face eviction in L.A. county […]
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Shortage of low-income housing pushes tenants into dangerous situations
Dozens of people shared only three showers in the building that Patricia McDowell called home for the last 2 1/2 years. Roaches skittered across the floor, she said, and lights went out and stayed out. In recent months, McDowell said she had to run an extension cord to another room to keep electricity going. But […]
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Renisha McBride shooter wants new judge
DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for a Detroit-area man who fatally shot a young, unarmed woman on his porch are asking a rookie judge to step aside and are signaling that the victim’s lifestyle should be fair game at a June trial. Several court filings reviewed by The Associated Press show Theodore Wafer plans an aggressive […]
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African Focus
African Focus, Incorporated is a registered non-profit organization based in California that focuses on the growth and well being of Africans all around the world through knowledge and appreciation of one another as well as building a bridge of love and understanding with other people. We were joined by Director and Founder of African Focus […]
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Horace Butler
Horace Butler is a preeminent Scholar and Researcher in the the field of Biblical and Ancient Egyptian writings. While in college on a journalism scholarship, Mr. Butler became deeply curious to know the origins of the biblical writings. That curiosity led him to the writings of Clement, Justinian and other Ancient historians. 21 years into […]
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U.S. secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
WASHINGTON — In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan to build a social media project aimed at undermining Cuba’s communist government. McSpedon and his team of high-tech contractors had come in from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Washington and Denver. Their mission: […]
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DC teen Avery Coffey sought by 5 different Ivy League schools
To say that Washington, D.C. native Avery Coffey has a bright future ahead of him would be a huge understatement. The 17-year-old has maintained a 4.3 grade point average at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, he plays four different team sports and he even built a robot at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory while doing an internship. Now, he […]
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Glenn Ellis
When Glenn Ellis, Sr. enrolled in the pre-med program at the University of Pennsylvania, it was just the first step in his lifelong commitment to ensuring the health and well-being of others. The Birmingham, Alabama native has earned a well-deserved reputation as an internationally respected health educator and complementary medicine consultant. His second book, Information […]
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CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says
A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact […]
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Obamacare Enrollment Heading to 7 Million at Deadline
The first yearly sign-up period for Obamacare closes today, with early returns suggesting the administration may near a projection of 7 million enrollees made before the U.S. health exchange struggled at its startup. The rollout has been under constant attack from Republican foes and faced a key U.S. Supreme Court (1000L:US) decision that allowed states […]
