Authorities scuttle skinhead plot to assassinate Obama.

 Two neo-Nazi skinheads are in jail today after law-enforcement officials broke up their plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or behead 99 Black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said Monday. Authorities disrupted the plans of the two would-be assassins to rob a gun store and target a predominately African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee, federal officials said, in court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn. All together, the two men planned to kill 88 people, including 14 African Americans by beheading, said Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF’s Nashville field office. Read the rest here, and watch the video below.

Governor To Decide Kilpatrick’s Fate

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s poltical future now rests in the hands of the governor.  Gov. Jennifer Granholm said on Tuesday that she may use a provision in the state constitution to have him removed from office for misconduct, The Associated Press reports. Read more about the city counci’s appeal to the governor and the charges Kilpatrick faces at BET.com/News.

Skin head gets 25 years for murdering a Black man. The justice system is finally bringing some closure to the nearly 20-year-old murder of a Black man in Philly. Thomas Gibison, a White supremacist, was convicted of conspiracy in the 1989 shooting death of Aaron Wood and was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison, The Associated Press reports. A friend of Gibison testified during the trial that they went to North Philadelphia to find a Black man to kill so they could earn a White supremacist tattoo. Gibison already is serving time in prison for unrelated weapons offenses charges.

March on Washington anniversary remembered. Forty-five years ago, thousands descended on D.C., and changed America forever. See the photos here.