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On Wednesday, Black Twitter officially received its own Wikipedia page. SEE ALSO: Lee Daniels Perpetuates Black Myths That Need To Die On Wikipedia, Black Twitter…
Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Antoinette Tuff, the bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., who is responsible for talking an armed gunman out of killing tons of innocent children and adults. Tuff explained how her faith in God allowed her to be a hero that day, telling Reid […]
Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. received a forfeiture order from the United States District Court, asking the embattled politician to fork over $750,000 and give up some of his prized possessions. Jackson Jr. has to cough up a wide array of items, reports NBC Chicago, including: $10,000 worth of Bruce Lee memorabilia $5,000 football […]
Gabrielle Union will be at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington on Saturday but don’t expect to see boyfriend Dwyane Wade there with her. She told the Tom Joyner Morning Show that Wade and his two sons, Zaire and Zion are on their annual “mancation” and won’t be back until tomorrow. You can […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department sued Texas on Thursday over the state’s voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over its redistricting laws that minority groups complain are discriminatory, but Texas Republicans insist are designed to protect the state’s elections from fraud. Attorney General Eric Holder said the action […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the U.S. achieved Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream of a colorblind society? Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made substantial progress in the past 50 years toward racial equality, a new poll shows. Despite a heightened sense of racial progress immediately following the 2008 election of the […]
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The 15-year-old co-defendant of a man accused of fatally shooting a baby in a stroller during a robbery attempt in coastal Georgia said the 18-year-old counted down twice before firing the shot that killed the baby. Dominique Lang testified Thursday he was walking with Elkins March 21 when they saw Sherry […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly two decades after they made the nation gawk by forming its first unionized strip club, the dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady are hanging up their thongs. The employee-owned, co-op club will close in two weeks because it can no longer afford its rent. General manager Scott Farrell tells the […]
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a man whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park. The indictment was returned Thursday. It charges Hernandez with the killing of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Calling higher education an “economic imperative,” President Barack Obama is pushing for an ambitious new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance and ultimately determine how federal financial aid is distributed. The rating system, which the president wants implemented before the 2015 school year, would […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City council members say they will make history with a vote to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s vetoes on police oversight bills. At a rally on Thursday before the vote, activists cheered and held signs that read “override.” The council voted to create an inspector general for the police department […]
Manoucheka Fortin, 27 (pictured above), is in trouble with police after abandoning her infant in a Florida Walmart with a man she met through Facebook, reports…
