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A candlelight vigil will be held Friday night to mark the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. NBCWashington reports: The vigil will begin at 7 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is scheduled to speak at the vigil. King was shot and killed at […]
21-year-old Ameena Ruffin and 18-year-od Korey Johnson have been named the first Black women to win a national debate championship tournament! Beating out 170 other teams the Towsend University students dominated during the Cross Examination Debate Association national championship held in Indiana. Thie national championship has tobe the “Super Bowl“ of debate championships. Ruffin and Johnson sealed their win with their argument […]
Irea Nall (pictured) was arrested and charged with assault, inciting a panic, and aggravated trespassing when she reportedly forced her way in to Ohio’s Groveport Madison…
A Morgan State University professor was convicted Tuesday in connection with a scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation and his students. The Baltimore Sun reports: Manoj Kumar Jha, 46, of Severn faces 20 years in prison for each of four counts of wire fraud, and for one count each of mail fraud and falsification […]
The body of Angela Rabotte, 26, a popular Atlanta stripper who had been missing since last Friday, was discovered in Norcross, Georgia and one person…
In the United States, fat-shaming and fat-phobia are as American as apple pie. While the Black community is more likely to embrace obesity as curvy, that…
Best supporting actress winner Lupita Nyong’o joins the ranks of Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts as an ambassador for the French beauty house Lancome. Ads featuring the “12 Years a Slave” star will begin poppingup in September. “I am truly honored to join the Maison Lancôme, a brand with such a prestigious history that I […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added jobs at a solid pace in March and hired more in January and February than previously thought. Friday’s government report sent a reassuring signal that the economy withstood a harsh winter that had slowed growth. The economy gained 192,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department said Friday, slightly below […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A wildly popular Georgia restaurant at the center of a lawsuit that left the reputation of famed Southern celebrity cook Paula Deen in shambles has reportedly closed. The Savannah Morning News and WSAV television both reported Thursday that Uncle Bubba’s Seafood & Oyster House announced the closure on its Facebook page. […]
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Two ships with sophisticated equipment for searching underwater zeroed in Friday on a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean in a desperate hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet’s black boxes, whose batteries will soon run out. An arduous weeks-long hunt has not turned up a single piece of wreckage, which […]
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member prior to the attack, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday. The base’s senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said there is a “strong possibility” that Spc. […]
Neshanna Turner is upset because she claims her fifth grade, asthmatic son, Henry (pictured), was ordered to clean toilets last Wednesday for arguing with another…
