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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida A & M University’s Marching 100 had played at a Super Bowl and before U.S. presidents. But one of the nation’s most-celebrated marching bands had a dark secret: members were occasionally beaten with mallets, fists and drumsticks in a hazing initiation known as “crossing” Bus C. The trial of four […]
MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — Tribal members played drums and sang songs in a gymnasium as students and parents gathered to support each other following a deadly shooting by a popular Washington state high school student. Young people hugged each other and cried and speakers urged people to come together during a community meeting Sunday afternoon […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Cannon remembers when youngsters often approached him, telling him that the 2002 film Drumline influenced them to attend a historically black college and university. Cannon believes the sequel could have the same impact. “People told me back then they went to an HBCU because of that movie,” said Cannon, who starred […]
Eddie Murphy will be returning to the big screen in his first major film since 2011’s Tower Heist with the New Orleans-set dramedy, Cook. Murphy has been taking a break from the entertainment industry, but since he’s a huge box office heavyweight, he can afford to do that. Nevertheless, one of the hardest working men in showbiz, […]
Eight-year-old Relisha Rudd has been missing since March 1st. She is believed to have been taken from a D.C. homeless shelter by a man named Khalil Tatum, a janitor at the shelter. Rudd’s mother, a resident at the shelter delayed investigators almost a month because she told school officials Tatum was a doctor and that the […]
Some days it’s good to be Sean “Diddy” Combs. Other days it’s not so good. Especially when it involves money owed. Combs has come under fire from Citibank, which has filed a lawsuit against the rap mogul Misa Hylton-Brim, the mother of his oldest son, Justin Combs. The company accuses the pair of defaulting a $712k loan […]
Alabama State’s season of promise continued to unravel Saturday in the 73rd Magic City Classic at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala., in front of 67,710 fans, the largest crowd for a game between two Football Championship Subdivision teams this season. The Hornets, ranked No. 1 among HBCUs at the start of this month, blew a […]
Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was accused of not being Black enough and essentially called an ‘Uncle Tom,’ within the confines of his own locker room. It’s unfortunate that every person in that locker room that looks like Wilson doesn’t see him a as a brother because Wilson embodies everything that is Black and […]
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has edited a Black woman into his campaign ad in an attempt to win back some of the minority vote. The…
Spike Lee directed a new Chevrolet commercial for the World Series starring 13-year-old Little League superstar Mo’ne Davis, who burst into all of our lives…
D.C. substitute teacher Symone Greene, 22, is charged with felony, first-degree sexual abuse of a minor for allegedly performed oral sex on a male student…