BART's police chief asked for patience from the public on Sunday after video footage surfaced showing one of his officers fatally shooting an unarmed man who was on the ground on a station platform on New Year's Day, and after an attorney for the dead man's family said he planned to sue the transit agency for $25 million.

An Israeli patrol boat struck a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, witnesses and Israeli officials said.  "I would call it ramming. Let's just call it as it is," Cynthia McKinney said after the boat docked in Lebanon. "Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side."

Toni Bunton landed in a Michigan prison after being convicted for participating in a drug deal that led to a murder. She and other female inmates say they became victims there, helpless to defend themselves against male guards’ sexual advances.

Sensing an opening in the race for the RNC chairmanship, rivals of Chip Saltsman are criticizing the candidate for sending out a CD to members with a song called “Barack the Magic Negro.”

 Rush Limbaugh plays "Barack The Magic Negro" on his show...but it is based on a Los Angeles Times piece.

The San Francisco 49ers followed Joe Nedney's game-ending field goal with an even bigger bang, swiftly confirming that interim head coach Mike Singletary will be back next year as a permanent fixture.

Having trouble paying your bills? You’re not alone. Arizona utilities are seeing significant increases in the number of residential power shut offs

Baltimore police say a gunman walked up to a crowd of people and opened fire Sunday afternoon, leaving five people wounded, including two critically.

Rashad Evans was walking around Brooklyn, N.Y., earlier this year, spending a couple of weeks hanging out with friends. He spent much of his time in a predominantly African-American neighborhood, and although Evans is one of the best-known fighters in the UFC, he was hardly recognized by people of color.

'The Nation' broke a story complete with video-taped admissions from White vigilantes in Algiers Point who say they shot Black men on sight for being in the neighborhood during Katrina.  Donnell Herrington was one of the Black men shot that lived to tell about it.

Although the federal government is pouring billions of dollars into the nation's banks, minority-owned financial institutions serving African-American and Latino communities face their own unique challenges, such as higher unemployment rates and less access to credit. Bill Cunningham, of Creative Investment Research and Luis Pastor, of the Latino Community Credit Union, discuss helping their clients through economic crisis.

Detroit School Board members Monday night fired Superintendent Connie Calloway.

Prepare Yourself.  Consumer investigator Adam Murphy has this week's best and worst health inspection scores.

Sister Souljah, is a best selling author, scholar and most importantly still an uncompromising community activist and organizer. She's still the type of person who makes you straighten up your shoulders and step up your game when she enters the room. You step up, not because you're intimidated or brow beaten, but because her energy is infectious and you simply can't help yourself.

The grassroots community organization, ACORN, is fighting for a new law it says will save lives.  "Stop the Bullet" is a campaign that would make it harder for felons to buy ammunition from stores.

There were cheers for William Jefferson at his post-election get together on Saturday night, but there was no victory. The nine-term congressman fell 1,829 votes short in the race for the second congressional district, despite the political odds seemingly in his favor

A financial crisis is threatening to close the doors of a South Jersey hospital for good.  If the hospital does not raise $5 million by January 16, it could be forced to close its doors forever.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen one of his campaign's foreign policy advisers to help shape American diplomacy. Rice is praised as a conscientious, hard worker with a solid diplomatic background. She faces Senate hearings and a confirmation vote before she could become, at 44 years old, the second-youngest U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

Ghana went to the polls in large numbers on Sunday to choose between two foreign-trained lawyers, Nana Akufo-Addo and John Atta Mills, in elections that may set an example for African democracy.

The ways in which aging black congregations are trying to reach youth without alienating older members.

A Documentary On The Case of Mumia Abu Jamal

Teddy Atlas Provides The Brutal Analysis.  "He's Not The Golden Boy.  He's The Black and Blue Boy...He Loses All of His Big Fights."