Ernest Osel Addo (pictured) was arrested at his home in Austell, Ga., for allegedly posing as a doctor in South Carolina for more than six…

In South Carolina, Venisha Brown, the daughter of the late James Brown, is being charged with theft by taking a motor vehicle in Richmond County and is being held for North Augusta authorities, according to Richmond County sheriff’s Investigator Billy Dixon. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/entertainment/gossip/james-brown%E2%80%99s-daughter-jailed-auto-theft-and-assault

Politics

Jackson predicts that tactics used by Ginrich will spell defeat for him — and for Republicans if they choose to go that way.  EURWeb.com has the complete story.  Read More:

Politics

According to the AP, Civil rights leaders bothered by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s stance on issues like requiring voters to show their IDs at the polls are reminding the governor that she is a minority, too. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/36452

South Carolina authorities will bring murder charges against a woman who admitted she suffocated two of her children, who were found in a car submerged in a river, Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said in a news conference Tuesday. Shaquan Duley, 29, told police she smothered her toddler sons at the Trumps Inn motel in […]

National

UPDATE: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina. Officials believe the men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case. Black landowners […]

VIA CNN: (CNN) — Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory. Nearly 100 years had passed since his great-uncles, Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin, were wrongfully executed in South Carolina. On Wednesday, a board voted 7-0 to pardon both men, clearing their names in the 1913 killing of a veteran of […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nine Black men arrested for integrating a Whites-only South Carolina lunch counter 54 years ago may be heroes in the historic record,…