NEW YORK — Former NYPD officer Jorge Arbaje-Diaz was sentenced to 20 years in jail for robbing drug dealers. Arbaje-Dia claimed he turned to robbing drug dealers to make mortgage payments on his new house. The New York Daily News reports: Defense lawyer Priya Chaudhry tried to win sympathy for his client in sentencing papers […]
An African-American soldier alleges that he experienced racial harassment while serving in Afghanistan. Slurs and a noose strung up outside his barracks were among the alleged forms of harassment he filed in a complaint this week. Specialist Adam Jarrell, the only African American in a unit of 216 soldiers of the New Mexico Army National […]
WASHINGTON– Tea Party front-runner Herman Cain said that African Americans are too poor to join the Tea Party, and that he refuses to remain on the “Democrat plantation,” according to TPMDC.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met with the Prince of Bahrain on Tuesday to urge the ruler to investigate alleged human-rights abuses by its security forces.
Rep. Anthony Weiner has been blasted for lying to his wife and having creepy sexual predilections. Many have been able to forgive his dishonesty, seeing sending kinky sext pics as treading a fine line, yet remaining on the right side of fidelity. And who hasn’t lied? To err is human, and Weiner’s crimes of the […]
Smokey Fontaine joins Roland Martin on Washington Watch to discuss Bishop Eddie Long privately mediating and settling the civil case filed against him by four young men who claim he sexually coerced them.
LOS ANGELES — A Latino gang conspired to rid a Southern California city of its black residents through intimidation, threats and violence dating back to the early 1990s to exert its influence and show its loyalty to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. LINKS: Jill Scott Reveals Her 3 […]
The most telling thing, I think, about a couple of the recent come-ons by white political figures towards women of color, Black women especially (Schwarzenegger not considered), is that they have been overwhelmingly physical in nature. No, these men didn’t discuss Proust or quote Kerouac, they went right for the c*#&shots and topless photos. First, […]
Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced via his twitter account Tuesday afternoon that he is returning to the ring for the first time after taking a 16-month layoff. He will be fighting against welterweight titlist Victor Ortiz on September 17th. It is unknown where the fight will take place, but insiders believe it will be at the […]
High school pranks are usually a sign that the school year is a coming to a close. However, one prank went from harmless to scary real fast for school officials first but now for the student accused of pulling the prank. Tyell Morton ,a senior at Rushville High in Indiana, said he thought it would […]
Although the thrill of a comeback win seemed to put the Mavericks back on track in the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat responded with a huge win on Sunday night. They now lead the series 2 to 1. There are key ways that Dallas can even the series up and get back into the swing […]
I recently read a New York Times article that explained the interesting concept of “perceptual learning,” which involves training the mind to memorize patterns rather than just learning concepts straight off. This method is being investigated by a small group of scientists who have evidence that proficiency improves when students in schools are groomed to […]