A program aimed at helping jumpstart the local economies of struggling cites is pairing high-performing college graduates and business startups in cities like Detroit, New Orleans and Providence, R.I. Modeled after Teach For America, Venture For America is a two-year program that places recent college graduates into business startups. “Our concrete goal is to generate […]
In a statement released last week, the Department of Justice has declined to reopen the 46-year-old case on the assassination of Civil Rights leader Malcolm X. The department said the statute of limitations has expired on any federal laws that might apply to the case. Despite the DOJ’s dissent, Civil Rights activists are ardently pushing […]
While they appear to surface every dime in a dozen, Anders Breivik’s reported attack in Oslo, Norway brings the “Christian Terrorist” back into the international spotlight. Mark Juergensmeyer of Religion Dispatches explores the uncanny similarities between Breivik and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Aside from being described as Christian extremists, both Breivik and McVeigh sought […]
The NFL lockout is over as the two sides have reached an agreement on a new labor deal. Now the fun starts — the league is re-opening and free agency will soon start. Source: [ione-gallery id=”1100225″ src=”http://newsone.com”%5D
Dr. Conrad Murray‘s lawyers wanted the outtakes to prove Jackson was very ill in the days before his death. The argument goes — he was already dying, so Dr. Murray can’t be held responsible for his death. But Judge Michael Pastor ruled … the outtakes were valuable to Sony Pictures — which objected to turning […]
Investigators may not know what killed singer Amy Winehouse until they get results from lab tests on her blood and tissue, due in about two to four weeks, according to Scotland Yard Monday. An autopsy was completed at St. Pancras Mortuary Monday afternoon, two days after the singer died in her London apartment. “It did […]
OSLO, Norway — Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian alleged mass murderer and terrorist ranted against Hip-Hop music and culture in his manifesto. One of his rants was targeted at early 80’s Philadelphia gangsta rapper, Schooly D. The Philadelphia City Paper reports: I personally know of more than 50 individuals who started with hashish and marijuana […]
Drake will be in town to help Cleveland celebrate it’s 215th birthday at the Ohio Homecoming this Saturday. It seems that he’ll also be throwing the ceremonial first pitch at Progressive Field Friday, July 22nd when the Indians take on the Chicago White Sox.
Kelly Rowland went topless and naked for her new photo shoot for her upcoming “Here I Am” album which is scheduled to out next Tuesday. We just have to ask, why does Kelly feel the need to bare all? Is it because her music sucks? Is it because sex sells? Why Kelly why??? We can’t […]
In the midst of Rep. Allen West’s verbal tit-for-tat with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, politicians on both sides are lining up in support of their perspective party member. As each side amasses, many are questioning whether a double standard exists against West and other Black Republicans when they attack liberals. The Grio explores this asking: […]
The world is definitely flipping upside down and inside out with the constant insanity we hear daily going on in ordinary people’s lives. It seems that killing your parents is becoming a trend amongst disturbed teenagers. Some of them have gone as far as to take out their whole family. But, on Sunday in Port St. Lucie, […]
The Mississippi Delta is the kind of place where everyone shows up for a funeral. It was on such a day in 1997 that Lucas McCarty and his grandfather had come to pay their respects to a young man who’d been killed in a car crash. John Woods was there to bury his son. Lucas […]