In today’s top news, Chavis Carter’s final autopsy report rules his death a suicide, President Obama blasts Rep. Tod Akin’s comments about pregnancy and rape and the New Black Panther Party is protesting the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida.
Chavis Carter’s final autopsy report rules his death a suicide. [CBS]
President Obama blasts Rep. Tod Akin’s comments about pregnancy and rape. [BET]
The New Black Panther Party is protesting the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida. [BET]
Diggy Simmons gets original movie pilot. [BET]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies at age 57. [CSM]
A number of new voter ID laws are tied to conservative group ALEC. [News 21]
Illinois’ governor has authorized a tax on strip clubs that will benefit rape crisis centers. [GMA]
An Afghani insurgent rocket hit the plane of U.S. Army chief Gen. Martin Dempsey. [BBC]
Tuskegee Airman George Hickman dies at age 88. [BET]
A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama public schools may not check the immigration status of new students. [AP]
