NEW YORK— New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men. Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg will kick in $30 million from his foundation and hedge fund manager George Soros will match that amount, according to the mayor’s office. The remaining $67.5 million will be paid by the city.

As state and federal jobs are being cut due to the economy, African Americans are being affected the most by the cuts. The Huffington Post reports: The cuts fall with marked impact on African Americans. Nearly 21 percent of the nation’s working black adults hold government jobs, as compared to some 17 percent of white workers and 15 percent of Latinos.

WASHINGTON, D.C – A man in a wheelchair was slammed to the ground by two Metro Transit Police Officers late last week. The incident was caught on tape by a bystander who uploaded the video to the Internet.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Amnesty International on Monday urged Jamaica’s government to seriously investigate human rights abuses allegedly committed during last year’s bloody operation to catch a reputed underworld boss.

WASHINGTON –The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California’s cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.

WASHINGTON — Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting the political and racial dynamics in cities once dominated by whites and blacks.

TheGrio.Com’s Janelle Richards is reporting that a former gay employee of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition has filed a discrimination complaint against Jackson and numerous staff members.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she’s not worried about skin cancer. READ MORE HERE!

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said the United States lacks the moral authority to attack the forces of embattled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

A Pennsylvania woman who claims Donald Duck groped her at Disney’s Epcot theme park can have her day in court, a federal judge has ruled. Disney must defend April Magolon’s claims that the character grabbed her breast as she held her child at the Walt Disney World park and then joked about it.