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NEW YORK (AP) — Target’s massive data breach has now cost the company’s CEO his job. Target announced Monday that Chairman, President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel is out nearly five months after the retailer disclosed the breach, which has hurt its reputation among customers and has derailed its business. The nation’s third-largest retailer said Steinhafel, […]
05/05/14 – Let’s be real. HBCUs are under a microscope and have been for a while now. The constant scrutiny and questions surrounding the relevancy of our institutions and low retention and graduation rates often overshadow the rich history and cultural achievements graduates from HBCUs have achieved. It certainly feels good to have an international corporation like […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused a support frame to collapse during an aerial hair-hanging stunt during a circus performance, sending eight acrobats crashing to the ground and onto a dancer below. At least three remained in critical condition Monday morning, hospital officials said. The accident occurred Sunday during the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Coca-Cola is dropping a controversial ingredient from its Powerade sports drink, after a similar move by PepsiCo’s Gatorade last year. The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, had been the target of a petition by a Mississippi teenager, who questioned why it was being used in a drink marketed toward health-conscious athletes. The […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while deeply dividing the world’s Anglicans, plans to divorce his husband. Bishop Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where […]
A man was killed by a toilet bowl thrown from the stands at a soccer game in Brazil. The New York Daily News reports: Soccer riots in Brazil claimed the life of a man who was killed by a toilet bowl thrown from the stands at Arruda Stadium, the latest scene of fan violence that […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A leader of a protest march for 276 missing schoolgirls says Nigeria’s First Lady abused them, expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the terrorist network blamed for the abductions. Then she ordered two of them arrested. Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town said State Security […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met with security, school and state officials and ordered that “everything must be done” to free the 276 girls held captive by Islamic extremists, one of his advisers said Sunday amid growing national outrage at the government’s response to the abduction. Jonathan said in a televised “media […]
Kwasi Enin has made his decision. With as much fanfare as a sought-after athlete finally choosing his college, the New York high school student accepted by all eight Ivy League schools — Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton and Cornell – announced Wednesday that he will continue his education at Yale University. […]
Usually on The Lookout I share my views on at least five stories concerning Black folks in the media but this week, all anybody…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don’t snap that selfie. Graduates at the University of South Florida and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., have been asked to refrain from taking self-portraits with their cell phones as they collect their diplomas. The seemingly simple directive is standing out for placing the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A subway train derailed in a Queens tunnel on Friday, but authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries. The express F train was bound for Manhattan and Brooklyn when it derailed at 10:40 a.m. about 1,200 feet from the 65th station in Woodside, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation […]
