Entertainment

The 2012 season wasn’t kind to the black college football old guard. Most of the names that we have grown accustomed to seeing atop the conference standings and national rankings were conspicuous by their absence at the end of the season. Traditional powers Grambling State, Florida A&M , South Carolina State and Albany State were […]

National News, News

Jeffrey Blanck, a civil rights attorney in Reno, Nev., has become the first non-Black leader of the Reno-Sparks NAACP in the branch’s 66-year history, according to the group’s web page this week. Blanck will be replacing outgoing President Lonnie Feemster, who has just completed his last of four two-year terms at the organization. Blanck’s involvement […]

Music

Prince will be honored with a March 7th benefit concert to be held at Carnegie Hall and double as a fundraiser for music education programs, reports the New York Times. Scheduled acts for the show include Talib Kweli, the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Roots. The event will mark the ninth year that City […]

National News

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A customer’s request to put ketchup on a Philly cheesesteak caused a ruckus in an Orlando Subway shop. Sandwich maker Lawrence Ordone told customer Luis Martinez that Subway doesn’t have ketchup when the order was placed on New Year’s night. There are differing accounts on what happened next, but Orlando television […]

Life & Style

When your job is a headache, the children don’t listen and your spouse isn’t supportive of or even willing to acknowledge all you do, it’s all too easy to see them as the problem. It’s not that there are no challenges in life; it is how one responds that determines whether they are problems or […]

Entertainment

The chick featured in Michael Jackson’s Thriller video has won her lawsuit against the Jackson estate. Former video vixen, Ola Ray, who starred as Jackson’s girlfriend in the 1983 music video, sued the Jackson estate in 2009 over a breach of contract a month before the pop star’s death. She claimed that she was still […]

Entertainment

In a special addition of “Farrakhan Speaks,” during which he is asked a wide-range of questions from the staff of the Final Call, Minister Louis Farrakhan calls film-maker and humanitarian, Tyler Perry, one of the most brilliant young entrepreneurs of our time. He said that he is grateful to him for bringing ‘Madea’ to the […]

Little Known Black History Facts

Recently at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a diary documenting the life of a freed black woman, Emilie (Emily) Davis, was restored. Emilie Davis was a young black woman living in Pennsylvania who began writing in her journal the day President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She expresses that she was thankful that her life […]

Football, HBCU Sports

The 2012 season wasn’t kind to the black college football old guard. Most of the names that we have grown accustomed to seeing atop the conference standings and national rankings were conspicuous by their absence at the end of the season.   The 2012 season wasn’t kind to the black college football old guard. Most […]

Entertainment

CeeLo Green has joined the list of celebrities making the commitment to lose weight. The singer has teamed up with eDiets, an online dieting service, in an effort to transform his physique. In a video called “CeeLo’s Journey,” Green says he chose to lose weight because he has much more creative work to do and […]

Entertainment

CeeLo Green has joined the list of celebrities making the commitment to lose weight. The singer has teamed up with eDiets, an online dieting service, in an effort to transform his physique. In a video called “CeeLo’s Journey,” Green says he chose to lose weight because he has much more creative work to do and […]

National News, News

KINGS PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a New York man has killed his grandmother after they argued over what TV show to watch. They say Clarence Newcomb was arrested Friday at the home he shared with 82-year-old Kathleen Newcomb in Kings Park, on New York’s Long Island. Suffolk County police say a man called […]