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South Carolina police are looking for Gabrielle "Gabby" Swainson, a 15-year-old cheerleader who disappeared on August 18, 2012 while her mother was at work. The girl's mother told police her daughter was asleep in her bedroom before she headed to work on a project at work. According to Derrica Wilson of the Black and Missing […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say 13 people were shot and wounded in a 30-minute spate of violence in Chicago, including eight gunned down on a single street. Authorities have been battling an increase in homicides in the city where some aldermen complain gangs have no fear of the police. Police say a drive-by shooting on […]
Atlanta’s Morris Brown College needs prayer and it needs relief from debt, leaders of the historically black institution say. Saturday, they’ll gather at 1 p.m. at the 131-year-old school to pray and also announce plans to help avoid foreclosure. “Morris Brown can survive,” says Benjamin Harrison, spokesman for the college’s Board of Trustees. “There have […]
If hypocrisy were bat guano, we’d all be hip deep in the stuff by now. Everybody wants to get in his or her two cents worth about Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” quote, and frankly, I can’t blame folks. If there are two words that absolutely, positively do NOT belong together, even in the […]
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rodney King had been drinking and was on drugs when he plunged into a swimming pool and accidentally drowned, a coroner's report released Thursday concluded. The report confirmed a police conclusion that King died by accident and the case will be closed, Rialto police Capt. Randy DeAnda said. "The investigation […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father's attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an audio reel labeled, "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960." He wasn't sure what he had until he borrowed a friend's reel-to-reel player and listened to the […]
It is with extreme sadness that we share the news that Morris Brown College, a Historically Black College established in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is facing foreclosure, according to CBS Atlanta. “This is heartbreaking and not only a sad day in the life of Morris Brown, but in black academia,” said former […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police in Jonesboro say the girlfriend of a man shot to death in the back of a squad car told an investigator he had called her from the car and said he had a gun. In a four-page statement police offered several new details about the investigation into the July […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The NYPD has disciplined 17 employees over racist and offensive remarks on a Facebook page about revelers at last year's West Indian American Day Parade. The comments referred to "savages" and "animals." One person wrote, "Let them kill each other." The raucous annual parade is a heavily policed event. It's one […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An informal adviser to Republican Mitt Romney is representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees suing the Obama administration over its plan to stop deporting many young illegal immigrants and grant them work permits. Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, filed the lawsuit on behalf of 10 ICE employees Thursday in […]
MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man has been sentenced to three years' probation for posting threats against President Barack Obama on Facebook. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Wednesday that 21-year-old Joaquin Serrapio had acted wrongly but there was no evidence he intended to carry out the threats. Prosecutors agreed to the probation. Serrapio […]
Tim Greene, a popular hip hop filmmaker known for a variety of films and finding new acts, including Rapping Granny and the movie "Lil Homeez," has provided free actor/filmmaker workshops in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York and Washington, D.C. At a recent event at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Washington, Greene described […]
