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Vote for him privately, secretly on thursday. well see if thats the case. the strategy is confusing to some, thats for sure. >> indeed. its always complicated on capitol hill. thanks so much. now to the battle for the white house and the surprising surge from bernie sanders in the democratic race. thousands flocking to see the self-described socialist in boston over the weekend. while sanders scored big in the polls, numbers show he trails front-runner hillary clinton when it comes to certain ...

University of oklahoma. >> we are not here because we are interested in a legal solution. we seek to have some other resolution of this matter. we are interested where needed to act to protect the due process rights the first amendment rights and the 14th amendment rights of the members. i think there was a premature rush to judgment. i think it would have been better to have taken a more measured response. >> today saes national organization distanced it self from the local chapter saying it ha...

Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense. martins family has said theyre disappointed but undeterred if their mission to empower others who demand justice and peace. indeed calls for justice are on the rise. right now the justice department is still working two separate investigations sparked by the fatal police shootings of unarmed ferguson teenager michael brown over the summer and theres a federal investigation into the apparent chokehold death of staten island man eric garner and that too, is...

With a tweet that read in part, i have already have drinking games in mind. when williams with the republican national committee tweeted he hoped that the senior editor could encourage diversity of thought, he said, oh great, heres a white dude telling me how to do the black thing. the part of the issue is williams to whom the tweet was addressed is black. the gop in a letter called for an apology and "ebony" said, quote, nearly 70 years ago this magazine began on the principle that as black peo...

General eric holder signed off on the search warrant for fox news james rosen. >> this would be a good time to have a special counsel come forward or some independent group to look at it. james rosen is a lot of things but a criminal co-conspirator hes not. were beginning to criminalize journalism. when classified information something leaked into the public that puts our operations in harms way, we have to find a way to pursue that but this is an overreach. >> gregg: there are calls for a speci...

Quite divided on the topic. we actually ran a poll on our website, ebony.com, asking whether or not we think the one drop rule should still apply. and a surprising 79% of our website users said that no, they dont think that the one drop rule should still apply. at the same time ive received so many letters in reaction to the multiracial feature in our may issue about, well, of course, you know, biracial people are black, but naturally halle berrys daughter is black. so its really a matter of deb...

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