(NNPA) - As Congress considers how best to reconcile differences in financial reform and consumer protections, key national advocates recently released updated data on how consumers continue to pay steep rates for small loans.

Rand Paul, the Tea Party Republican Senate nominee from Kentucky, recently made it clear in a series of media interviews that he disagrees with the public accommodations provision in the Civil Rights Act on the grounds that it intrudes on the rights of private business owners.

Despite widespread global condemnation of Israel's decision to attack a flotilla of boats carrying unarmed civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Srip, U.S. officials have refused to publicly criticize Israel and the American media has reported the conflict through what one media monitoring group called "Israel's Eyes."

Two Virginia teachers have recently been suspended for using materials that teach about police encounters in a twelfth grade government class.

Amid the uproar over Israel's deadly raid on the flotilla bringing aid to the Gaza strip, it's important to note what is not happening.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's all so last millennium, that filthy business in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

DETROIT (NNPA) - It was a somber affair at the Second Ebenezer Baptist Church in Detroit May 15. Family, friends and others came to pay their respects to the family of Aiyana Jones, who died at the hands of the Detroit Police Department.

(NNPA) - On Sunday, May 22, two students were absent from "walking the Lawn" as graduates of the University of Virginia—one is dead and one is in jail, charged with the other's murder.

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - If you are really angry about immigration …then you should be asking questions about US foreign policy.

(NNPA) - I couldn't believe the headlines in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times which asked whether President Obama had responsibility for the oil spill on the Louisiana, Miss. coastline.