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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle activists celebrated a successful campaign to gradually increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 by calling for a national movement to close the income and opportunity gaps between rich and poor. The Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Monday that would give the city the highest minimum wage in the […]
Besides V. Stiviano, Donald Sterling now has another black female problem. Would you believe the LA Clippers owner is being sued by a woman who he fired her after she rejected “a stream of racist and sexist taunts.” TMZ, which obtained a copy of the lawsuit is reporting this: Maiko Maya King says in her […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is expanding into home and health management as the company tries to turn its iPhones, iPads and Mac computers into an interchangeable network of devices that serve as a hub of people’s increasingly digital lives.The new tools for tracking health and controlling household appliances are part of updated operating systems […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina are searching for whoever made a massive, unauthorized withdrawal from a diaper bank. The Diaper Bank of North Carolina says 13,000 diapers were stolen last weekend. The Durham-based nonprofit provides diapers to struggling families. Founder and executive director Michelle Old said she went Monday to pick up […]
This week, an American ritual will repeat itself. Something that within the past century has morphed into a rite of passage for armies of…
Last Friday, the Peace Corps and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity announced a partnership aimed at providing service within the African-American community. Peace Corps Acting Director…
Two-year-old Daylan Walker died instantly last Wednesday morning after falling from the roof of a 4-story building that housed his daycare on the first floor,…
John Ruckh, a 24 year EMS veteran in Forsyth County, North Carolina, has been suspended after comments he made about Oprah Winfrey were picked up…
Malia Obama is growing up, a fact that hit home as her father, President Barack Obama, mentioned that she attended her first prom. “Malia did have her first prom,” the commander-in-chief solemnly said Friday on “Live! With Kelly and Michael.” “It’s fair to say that the first time you see your daughter in heels is […]
When President Barack Obama launched “My Brother’s Keeper” the reactions were mixed. There were those who took the initiative as a sign that Obama did,…
RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) — Police are investigating after finding $3 million worth of missing shoes at a central Kentucky home. Media outlets report that officers with the Radcliff Police Department confiscated thousands of pairs of Nike shoes that were scattered in front of the home. According to a search warrant filed last week, the shoes […]
V. Stiviano, the femme fatale who exposed Los Clippers owner Donald Sterling‘s racism to the world, was captured on tape being pretty racist herself, reports…
