HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico corrections officers say an inmate escaped his jail cell by breaking a window bar with a razor blade and a Popsicle stick but changed his mind once he got outside. Carlos Garcia told police it took about five months to break the bar on his cell window at the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Ne-Yo channeled Michael Jackson on the late singer's 54th birthday at an event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the King of Pop's multiplatinum "Bad" album. Ne-Yo performed "Smooth Criminal," ''I Just Can't Stop Loving You" and "The Way You Make Me Feel" on Wednesday night at New York's Gotham Hall, […]
Ken Smukler of the "Trickery Report" lightened the mood before breaking down the dour voter identification laws in the United States, joking, "Do you want to know a Little black history fact about Janesville, Wisconsin. There is no black history in Janesville, Wisconsin," the hometown of VP candidate Paul Ryan. Smukler wants you to know […]
Huggy Lowdown says the Republicans are as believable as "Taye Diggs playing a Jamaican in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."" Listen to hear more things "as believable", his opinion on Condoleezza Rice's hair and more.
Guy Torry talks with the crew about his latest projects and his current comedy tour across the United States.
Claressa Shields just became the first U.S. fighter, and African-American fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing. It was America’s first women’s Olympic boxing event. At sixteen years old, Shields held a 19-0 record. Nicknamed the “16-year old sensation,” Shields, who is now 17, has been compared to Muhammad Ali for her […]
Under the surface at the RNC convention, there is a concern about the count. Beyond the official delegate count for the Romney Ryan ticket, there is another count folks are expressing quiet concern about: the number of African-American delegates at the Republican National Convention. The interest in the numbers stems from a recent Wall Street […]
Kris Humphries is being sued by a woman who claims he gave her herpes. TMZ has learned that a woman named Kayla Goldberg is accusing the baller of infecting her with herpes two summers ago. According to the lawsuit, the two met in L.A. and after hitting it off, met up later that evening. After […]
I guess comedian Damon Williams wasn't the only person who noticed the lack of black people at the Republican National Convention because singer and former "American Idol" runner-up took to Twitter to make a funny comment about the white-dominated event. Aiken tweeted: "Playing drinking game with my brother now. We drink every time we see […]
According to reports, Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, has tied the knot with boyfriend/god-brother Nick Gordon. Over the weekend, photos surfaced of Bobbi-Kristina wearing a dazzling, blue rock on her ring finger which led people to speculate Gordon proposed. But now people believe they actually got hitched over the weekend and the Houston family is […]
As the civil rights movement and Brown vs. Board of Education was blatantly being ignored in most of Mississippi, the decision to send a young Chicago boy who needed structure to the South was made by his widowed mother, Mamie Till. Unaware of the depth of racism and Jim Crow in the South, 14-year-old Emmett […]
So by now, you may have heard of Hampton University’s MBA Program’s ban on cornrows and locks, a controversial ban that got national attention this past week even though it has actually been in place since 2001. So, male students in Hampton’s MBA program are not allowed to wear cornrows or locks to […]