National News – Capital Outlook

Cosby’s publicist blames National Enquirer for drone

February 12, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent It wasn’t exactly an unidentified object that flew over the prison that houses Bill Cosby this week. Not, according to Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt, who noted the timing of the drone that was discovered above the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute Phoenix in Collegeville,

2018 was the year of Black voting victories; but voting lessons are yet to be learned

February 1, 2019

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire At this time last year, political observers around the nation were expecting a landslide turnout in the mid-term elections Nov. 6, 2018, demonstrating the power of Black voters – among others – to flip the then Republican-dominated House of Representatives. Ten months

Crump calls for ETS to release student’s score for consideration by FSU

February 1, 2019

Special to the Outlook MIAMI — Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump recently a demand to Educational Testing Service, calling on the company that administers the SAT to release Miami Gardens student Kamilah Campbell’s SAT score within two weeks so that she can be considered for admission

Cosby attorneys list 11 problematic rulings for Appeals Court

January 3, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent Bill Cosby’s attorneys are confident that there are significant legal (and more importantly, appealable) issues stemming from his trial last spring on aggravated sexual assault. The responsibility for what they believe to be problematic rulings and errors and oversight rest squarely on

Democrats Take the House, Win Sweeping Power in Congress

November 7, 2018

Gillum loses governor’s race in Florida, Abrams awaiting final ballots in Georgia By Frederick H. Lowe Democrats took over the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections, which will boost the power and influence of representatives Maxine Waters, John Lewis, and Elijah Cummings. Under the new order, Waters, a

Inside a Trump rally: What are Black Trump supporters thinking?

November 7, 2018

We went. We saw. We asked. By Lee Eric Smith, Tri-State Defender Memphis By now, no one should be surprised that Kanye West is a fan of President Donald Trump. It’s been months since he first posted a selfie wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, so the surprise should

Private Facility Offers Clues for Rethinking Stubborn Challenges in U.S. Incarceration

October 29, 2018

Part 2 of 2-part Series: By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has described the U. S. government’s use of for-profit private prisons as “an embarrassing and degrading stain on our democracy”. The organization contends “the maintenance and treatment of those who

An inmate hopes this prison program will give him the tools for a new life: Part 1 of 2-part series

October 22, 2018

By Hazel Trice Edney Special to the Outlook Elvin Colton (Not his real name) is a 32-year-old ninth-grade dropout and recovering drug addict in prison for the fourth time. But later this year when he goes home to his children and family, he believes he will have spent his final

CBCF Conference: Health, ‘The Dream’ & impeachment

September 27, 2018

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia An estimated 10,000 people filled the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest Washington, D.C., over five days to hear vital issues facing African Americans and other minorities at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. Organizers left no stone unturned

Camille Cosby appears at judicial conduct review board

September 27, 2018

By Stacy M. Brown Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Camille Cosby has filed an official complaint about her husband’s judge to the Judicial Conduct Review Board of Pennsylvania. One week before iconic comedian Bill Cosby faces sentencing in his assault case and just a week after defense attorneys filed a motion asking