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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A self-described pimp who once posted online images of himself with fists full of cash told a Las Vegas judge on Wednesday that he had no money to hire a lawyer to defend himself against charges that he killed three people in a shooting and fiery crash Feb. 21 on the […]
Diane Cervelli (pictured right) and Taeko Bufford (pictured), a lesbian couple who claim they were denied a room at a Hawaii Bed and Breakfast because of their sexual orientation, have won their lawsuit against the lodging establishment, according to The Blaze. When Cervelli and Bufford were booking a room at the Aloha Bed And Breakfast in 2007, owner Phyllis Young inquired about their […]
A mother and her daughter bled to death on a road in Jaipur, India after being hit by a truck and left to die, the Hindustan Times reports. A truck hit the family of four as they rode on a motorcycle in Jaipur Monday. They were going through a tunnel where motorcycles are not permitted. Though people illegally drive […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator that tested positive for poisonous ricin are related and both are postmarked Memphis, Tenn., the FBI said Wednesday. A senator said police have a suspect in mind. Several other reports of suspicious mail to government officials were being checked. In an intelligence […]
In today’s edition of bizarre news, three men attending a music festival in Saudi Arabia were deported for allegedly being “too handsome.” According to reports, the young men, who are citizens of the United Arab Emirates, traveled to the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh for an annual culture festival. However upon arrival, the religious police evicted […]
The youngest daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. returned Tuesday to the place in Birmingham where her father penned his famous “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”, one the most significant documents generated during the turbulent civil rights movement of the 1960s. The experience for Elder Bernice King was much different from what her father […]
Three years ago, Heriberto Espino, the Afro-Cuban president of the Fernando Ortiz Foundation in Havana, talked to me and a group of black journalists about realities in Cuba. Racism, he said, is a problem. But, he said, Cubans want to fix the problem themselves. “We want to change it,” Espino said. “And we want you […]
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority mourns the passing of Mary Shy Scott, of Atlanta, Ga., on April 15, who served as the Sorority’s 23rd International president from 1990-1994. The theme of her administration was Creative Strategies for Action: Addressing the Crises of the 1990’s. Speaking on behalf of Alpha Kappa Alpha’s 260,000 members worldwide, the Sorority’s […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Karnamaya Mongar survived 20 years in a refugee camp after fleeing war-torn Bhutan, but died months after arriving in the U.S. in 2009 and seeking an abortion. Mongar, 41, is the subject of one of eight murder counts in the ongoing Philadelphia trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell, an abortion provider, is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pronounced the deadly Boston Marathon explosions an act of terrorism on Tuesday as individuals close to the investigation said the two bombs were made of pressure cookers packed with ball bearings and metal shards that cut into the victims. Speaking at the White House, Obama said investigators do not […]
Samuel Little, 72, was arrested for being in possession of a crack pipe and now finds himself accused of being a notorious serial killer responsible for the murders of women in Los Angeles dating back to 1989, reports ABC News. Little, an alleged career criminal, was discovered in a Kentucky homeless shelter and was extradited to […]
The persistence of 8-year-old Aamira Fetuga (pictured above) played a pivotal role in causing (R) to drop a discriminatory bill and may have changed the course of Tennessee welfare reform, reports Colorlines.com. Tennessee parents of under-performing students risked losing their welfare benefits if they did not show up for at least two parent-teacher conferences. As Campfield explained to Fetuga, […]
