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LAS VEGAS (AP) — It took just nine fateful minutes for a valet stand dispute to escalate to a deadly Las Vegas Strip shooting, crash and fireball. Nearly every second was captured by video, audio and witness accounts and detailed in a Las Vegas police report made public after a weeklong manhunt led to the […]
Sometimes we take things too damn far. This next story is one of those situations. A college in New York named Hunter College has come under fire for a sick and twisted game some of their students were filmed playing. The name of the horrific game is “Abortion Battles.” The game is rather simple. Students […]
Bulging eyes. Swollen lips. Bare feet. Clownish facial expressions. Many of us assumed that such hurtful racial images died in the 1960s with Jim Crow. But this week Bloomberg’s Businessweek magazine revived some of that racist iconography when it published a cover featuring Blacks as greedy, bug-eyed opportunists. Now, many politicians, pundits and Black leaders […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Michelle Obama says it was “absolutely not surprising” to her that her satellite appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony provoked a national conversation about whether it was appropriate, after some conservative critics accused her of selfishly crashing the event in an attempt to upstage it. She attributed the chatter to a culture […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate in the Mississippi Delta. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian. McMillian, 34, was a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A felon sought in a shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip was taken into custody Thursday in Los Angeles, police said. Ammar Harris was arrested by a team of police and federal agents in North Hollywood, Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones said. The […]
There is some new information on the four Joliet, Ill., suspects who are facing first-degree murder charges for the strangulation deaths of two 22-year-old Black men who were allegedly robbed, killed, and partially dismembered in January. Police investigators have now learned that three of the accused murderers may have had sex on top of the corpses, reports […]
In the 1980s, we saw a large scale dismantling of civil rights gains and the triumph of “trickle-down” economics. As part of the trickle – down economics strategy, government implemented broad financial deregulation, specifically in the mortgage industry. Unfortunately, the strategy set the stage for the 2008 housing crisis. Since the Great Depression, the U.S. […]
The Tom Joyner Morning Show crew takes a funny but critical look at Pope Benedict XVI, the Roman Catholic Church and HBO’s “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God” documentary which reveals the history of sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic church. ————— TOM JOYNER: The Pope was clean this morning. J. ANTHONY […]
Seven Indianapolis hairdressers at Lou’s Creative Styles are battling it out in court with a co-worker over a $9.5 million willing lottery ticket. The stylists are claiming Christina Shaw cheated them out of their share of a $9.5 million Hoosier Lotto Jackpot for a ticket they all put their money into. Meanwhile, the woman claims […]
If you’re someone who feels that “nigga” is a term of endearment that empowers Black people by removing the sting of racism from the word, or if you’re a rapper who loves your “niggas” like you all escaped from Candieland plantation together and call each other “my nigga” to remember where you came from, then Abena […]
Have you ever sat back and said to yourself that you’d like a pet, but, in this unstable economy, don’t think you’d have the money to support one? If you answered yes to that question, then Pet Food Stamps is for you! Pet Food Stamps, is a donation-based program based in New York which aims to […]
