National

Hundreds of people in the Washington, DC area gathered at the National Cathedral to pay tribute to Dr. Dorothy Height. See what our Radio One correspondent had to say about today's events.

From the Washington Post: PORT-AU-PRINCE — They pound concrete. Smash it over and over. Smash it until it powders. Click here to view photos. The pounding starts at dawn, when the men with the calloused hands crawl by the hundreds, antlike, over and into the ruins of this broken city, from the toppled old market-houses […]

He was turned down for parole 16 times, but the 17th attempt has led to freedom Malcolm X’s only confessed assassin.

From the Huffington Post: Finally, the oft-rumored “Whitey tape” has surfaced in the form of a video of President Barack Obama attempting to get some vital portions of the coalition that put him in office in 2008 to maybe get interested in voting again in 2010. That coalition: people who voted for the first time […]

President Barack Obama certainly hasn’t made it a secret that he believes in prayer, and Sunday he became the 11th American President to counsel with Evangelist Billy Graham. 

From HuffingtonPost.com: Rush Limbaugh has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled “Liberals and the Violence Card.”

LOS ANGELES – Sobs overcome Susanne McGraham-Paisley when she thinks about her mentally ill brother who lived for years on a city sidewalk — John McGraham died when a man doused him with gasoline and set him ablaze.

NORFOLK, Virginia — Eleven suspected Somali pirates accused in separate attacks on two U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Africa were indicted in federal court on Friday.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there: a constituent who needed her kidney.

This years cruise was definitly one to remember. Thank you to all the loyal listeners that sailed with us, as well as those that sailed with us for the first time. Take a look at some of the fun that you missed, and come join the fun and sail with us in 2011!