A few months prior to the horrific tragedy of 9/11, my personal life was already shattered into a million pieces. In a matter of minutes, an issue that too often impacts the lives of African Americans hit directly home. My two-year-old son’s father was shot and killed; our lives left hanging in the balance. But […]
A man who won a $2 million dollar lottery jackpot is still collecting food stamps and he could care less what anybody thinks about it. Leroy Fick of Bay County, Michigan won the “Make Me Rich” lottery last June. After taxes he took home about $850,000. The state wants him off food stamps, but the […]
ATLANTA-Former RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, is going after his former Republican colleagues over a racist skit and a comparison of health care. He criticized Rush Limbaugh for a skit that mocked President Barack Obama and the way Black people talked and Rand Paul for saying that Universal Health Care is “slavery.” The Redding News reports: […]
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History will feature 1970’s funk band Parliament Funkadelic’s Mothership as a permanent piece of its music exhibition when it open its door in 2015. First appearing in 1977, the smoke-spewing stage prop quickly became an emblem of the band’s eclectic spirit and a symbol of the post civil […]
WASHINGTON — United States Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stated that there was no evidence that anyone in the upper echelons of Pakistan’s leadership knew that Osama Bin Laden was hiding in their country. The New York Times reports: “I have seen no evidence at all that the senior leadership knew,” Mr. Gates said. “In […]
DALLAS, Tx. — A Dallas mother alleges that her 12-year-old son was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by classmates even as a teacher stood by and ignored the attack. VIDEO: The NY Daily News reports: The woman said his hands were taped to the chair, he was wrapped with a telephone […]
So meet the man responsible for the choreography of Beyonce’s video for “Run the World (Girls)” .
A recent article on the New York Times is about the way in which college graduates are facing greater and greater difficulty in finding employment after leaving school. The New York Times reports: Employment rates for new college graduates have fallen sharply in the last two years, as have starting salaries for those who can […]
DETROIT — Don Barden, a prominent Detroit businessman who sold vegetables from the road as a child before making millions in casinos, cable TV and real estate, died Thursday. He was 67.
Bad Girls Club star Christina Hopkins was caught in a racist rant saying the N-Word twelve times when speaking about a Black woman while she was eating at a restaurant.
GEORGIA– Coleman Eaton, a 60-year-old substitute teacher, is accused of exposing himself to 30 students as he allegedly urinated in a classroom trash bin at Riverdale Elementary School.
In the history of African-Americans who fought for the rights of our people, a conversation cannot go by without mentioning the great Malcolm X. Today, May 19th, would have been the 86th birthday of the great civil rights leader who was killed by an assassin’s bullet. It would have been interesting to see what he’d […]