On Thursday, February 28, 2008, the residents of hip-hop’s birthplace finally recieved the results they’ve been fighting months for.

At about 5 a.m. this morning, after 49 years as leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro officially resigned.

“The Root”, is reporting that the ancestors of President George W. Bush enslaved 30 people 175 years ago.

Vote Hope, a grassroots California based political network, wants to encourage youth and underrepresented communites to vote for Obama during the February 5 primary.

1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the building where DJ Kool Herc organized the first hip hop house party, is in danger of being sold.

Yesterday, the Washington Post launched “The Root” - an online that aims to be a “Slate for black readers,” according to the site’s co-founder and Editor-In-Chief, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

According to the economic stimulus package proposed by President Bush, come June as many as 116 million American families could be receiving a fat check in the mail. Word.

10 years after calling Bill Clinton our “first Black President”, Morrison now endorses Obama

Newly-elected Mayor Michal Nutter has appointed former Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington D.C. as the new police commissioner.

New York Time’s columnist Maureen Dowd wrote this editorial, titled Two Against One, about Bill and Hillary Clinton teaming up against Barak Obama in recent months. It was the second most emailed article on the New York Time’s website today.