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All too often we see celebrities, politicians, and corporations make tragic mistakes which offend or harm the people within the Black community.
German singer Nadja Benaissa was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a man who contracted H.I.V. after having unprotected sex with her admitted in court on Monday that she had concealed the fact that she was infected with the virus from the man, and from two other sexual partners.
Dashawn Longfellow, a former U.S. Marine, was in Thailand for vacation and to study Muay Thai, or Thai boxing – and that may have been what got him killed, according to Thai police.
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US retail sales rose in July after two months of declines, largely due to an increase in car sales, figures show. Total sales climbed 0.4% from the previous month, when sales dropped by a revised 0.3%, the Commerce Department said. Without the impact of car sales, overall retail sales rose by 0.2%. US retail sales […]
In the last few months, the amount of police brutality incidents against African-Americans and Latinos have seemed to be on the rise. Just the other day, the NYPD shot a young man 21 times; and that’s not the only incident to garner national attention. There have been stories about officers punching females, dragging pregnant women, […]
On Tuesday, writer Farhad Manjoo posted a controversial article titled, “How Black People Use Twitter” on Slate.com. The writer attempted to expose Black people’s behavior on Twitter, describing popular Trending Topics like “Black Ghetto Baby Names” or “If Santa Were Black,” as a game of racial insults and buffoonery which involves a large sector of […]
Some say Montana Fishburne got just what she wanted. Attention. The sort of mainstream attention she said she was seeking in the way that Kim Kardashian has achieved. She has done the media circuit —some wondering why with the familial connections she had would she resort to porn, others lauding her as an empowered “post-racial” […]
Actress Jennifer Freeman who starred in “My Wife & Kids,” has been accused of viciously attacking her NBA player husband, Earl Watson. Earl filed divorce papers last week claiming Jennifer not only hit him, but bit him until he bled and tried to go upside his head with an iron. Read more at our sister […]