Vickie Marble, a Republican state senator from Colorado, claims she didn’t mean to offend African Americans when she said black people are living in poverty, in part, because they eat too much fried chicken. “When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race,” Marble said during a meeting of the legislature’s […]

Little Known Black History Facts, Originals

In Chicago, 1893, black people were excluded from the activities of the Worlds’ Columbian Exposition, also known as The World’s Fair. The event had been dubbed “the White City” to describe the area at the Court of Honor. At first, blacks could work at the event, but not attend. A young Paul Laurence Dunbar was […]

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So apparently the leader of the free world, President Barack Obama, is so adamant about tipping, that during his last restaurant trip, though his gratuity was already added to bill, he still added to it. Obama stopped for lunch this past Thursday at a deli called Magnolia’s in Rochester, NY. Reports said he ate a […]

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Rodeo clown Tuffy Gessling says he wasn’t “hating on anyone” when he donned an Obama mask two weeks ago at the Missouri State Fair and galloped his way into national headlines. Gessling gave his first on-camera interview to Kansas City’s KCTV to clear the air and reveal that he’s received several death threats since the […]

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CNN’s Don Lemon and music mogul Russell Simmons finally came face to face and discussed Lemon’s controversial critique of the black community, and Simmons’ reaction to it. Simmons previously wrote an open letter to Lemon, which Lemon responded to on the air. Now the two have finally hashed things out in an interview that aired […]

Zoe Saldana may be a part of Hollywood’s elite, she this half-Dominican, half-Puerto Rican beauty has not forgot her roots. According to the Hollywood Reproter,…

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A portrait of a highly isolated young man with disruptions in his education is emerging as a state office investigating the Newtown shooter seeks the release of his school records. Connecticut’s child advocate office is seeking Adam Lanza’s records as part of an investigation with its Child Fatality Review Panel […]

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During a shocking press conference in New York on Friday, Mike Tyson, 47, revealed that he is deep in substance addiction and on the “verge of…

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NEW YORK (AP) — When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom. Now, as the crowds come together to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal event in the civil rights movement, those issues have been joined by others, including one, immigration reform, that wasn’t nearly on the […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — NAACP President Ben Jealous says he plans to turn over petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling on the Department of Justice to pursue charges against George Zimmerman for violating Trayvon Martin‘s civil rights. Zimmerman was acquitted by a Florida court for the February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Martin, who […]

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge signed off Monday on a deal to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen. A civil lawsuit accusing the former Food Network star and her brother of race discrimination and sexual harassment was officially dismissed when U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. in Savannah […]

Robin Thicke attempted to settle the lawsuit filed against him by Marvin Gaye’s family with a six-figure settlement, however, according to Billboard, the offer was…