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They made a lot of news recently when they were unceremoniously kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train for laughing and having a good time. In their first televised interview since the incident on August 22, members of the book club “Sistahs on the Reading Edge” sit down with “The Real” hosts to discuss what […]
Louisville campus police now say they are reviewing allegations that a former men’s basketball staffer hired escorts to dance and have sex with recruits and players in a dormitory. Katina Powell has alleged in a book released online over the weekend that former Cardinals director of basketball operation Andre McGee paid her $10,000 for dancers […]
Grace Lee Boggs - a champion for civil rights, labor rights, feminism, and the Black Power movement - has died.
A school is defending the suspension of a 12-year-old Black student who allegedly "intimidated" a White student during a staring contest.
The family of Vachel Howard, who was killed in police custody in 2012, will receive a $3 million pay-out from the city over his death.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration will try to harness the sounds, style and attitudes of hip-hop into a multi-million dollar anti-smoking campaign to discourage young African Americans, Hispanics and other groups from using tobacco. The federal agency says it will spend $128 million on advertising, events and local outreach as part of […]
Years after the Rev. Jeremiah Wright made waves with saying “G**damn America!” the controversial pastor appears to still carry a grudge against President Barack Obama. According to The Atlantic, Wright didn’t call out the commander-in-chief by name while speaking at the United Church of Chapel Hill last month, but it was obvious who he was […]
Gerod Roth somehow thought it was a good idea to post a picture on his Facebook page of his coworker’s young son. Unfortunately for him, his friends thought the post was their outlet for a number of racial slurs and comments they wrote on the page. When an Detroit woman, Ife Johari, caught wind of […]
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The gunman who executed nine people at an Oregon community college before killing himself ranted in writings he left behind about not having a girlfriend and thinking everyone else was crazy, a law enforcement official said Monday. The official also said the mother of 26-year-old gunman Christopher Harper-Mercer has told investigators […]
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told NBC’s Chuck Todd during the Washington Ideas Forum, hosted by AtlanticLIVE and the Aspen Institute, that the federal government should not require police…
If you stand for nothing, you fall for anything, and Roni Dean-Burren wasn’t going to stand for her ninth-grade son taking in erroneous information in his history book. The mom vented on Instagram about a misleading interpretation of history in World Geography by McGraw-Hill Education, according to Buzzfeed. A passage in the textbook, “Patterns of Immigration,” got history all wrong: The […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE: If there was ever a murder case perfectly suited for media and public consumption it was the O.J. Simpson murder trial. It had it all: A former football star charged with killing his ex-wife and her friend. A slow-speed police chase seen by millions on TV that involved the […]
