Bring That Week Back: Elmo Puppeteer Resigns
Elmo quits, farmers allege discrimination, plus more news.
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Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash Resigns - Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash resigns amid sex scandal, Frederick Douglass heads to Capitol Hill, Black farmers cry racial discrimination, plus more news headlines. —Dorkys RamosKevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, resigned Tuesday after a second lawsuit involving allegations of sex abuse was filed against him. Cecil Singleton claims Clash engaged in a gay phone chat with him in 1993, when he was 15 and Clash was 32. (Photo: AP Photo/Victoria Will, file)
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Sherrilyn Ifill Named NAACP LDF President - The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has named Sherrilyn Ifill as its new president and director-counsel. Ifill, who will take on the position in January, once served as an assistant counsel for the LDF's New York office and has been teaching at the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law since 1993. (Photo: University of Maryland School of Law)
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Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that while Black women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white women, once they're diagnosed, their death rate from the disease is 41 percent higher. By the time Black women are diagnosed with breast cancer, the disease has spread to other organs in 45 percent of cases compared to 35 percent of cases among white women. (Photo: GettyImages)
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Frederick Douglass Heads to Capitol Hill - A statue of Frederick Douglass will be moved from a government office in Washington, D.C., to Capitol Hill's Emancipation Hall. His will be one of three figures depicting African-American icons including the busts of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sojourner Truth. (Photo: Courtesy of The LA Times/ Weitzman Studios)
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Nine-Year-Old Charged With Brother's Murder - A nine-year-old St. Louis, Illinois, boy has been charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder for beating his 14-month-old brother to death last August. The boy is currently under the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services. (Photo: News One)
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Alabama Black Farmers Sue USDA - Half a dozen Black farmers in Alabama have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture claiming they were denied loans provided for white farmers. In addition to allegations of discrimination, the farmers are saying the government is forcing them to sell their properties. (Photo: Courtesy of WBRC NEWS)
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Michigan's Affirmative Action Ban Struck Down - Michigan's six-year-old affirmative action ban was deemed unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. Opponents of the law hope the ruling will affect anti-affirmative action policies around the country. Defenders of the ban plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: AP Photo/Free Press, Kathleen Galligan/file)
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Minority Communities Suffer From Coal-Fired Power Plants - An NAACP report found that coal-fired power plant pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. Environmental groups studied the outputs of power plants and the environment of nearby neighborhoods to discover that the six million who live within three miles of coal power plants have a per capita income of $18,400 per year and minority communities represent 39 percent of that group. (Photo: Glen Argov /Landov)
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Mayor Cory Booker Takes on Food Stamps Challenge - Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker says he will live off of food stamps for a week. The challenge, which was spurred from a Twitter conversation with an anti-socialism and communism follower, will force the two to spend only $35 per person per week on food. (Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Bing)
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A New Suspect in O.J. Simpson Case - A documentary on the murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and her friend reveals that a convicted killer in Florida might have been involved. The film looks into Glen Rogers' serial killings in California and other states and suspects that the death row inmate was behind the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (Photo: Phil Poynter/The Richmond Register/AP)
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Trayvon Martin Case Witness Names Leaked - Bernie de la Rionda, the lead prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case, accidentally leaked the names of witnesses by placing their names in a public file while delivering new evidence on Nov. 8. The leaked names are not expected to affect the trial. (Photo: Red Huber/The Orlando Sentinel-Pool/Getty Images)