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The USDA’s food pyramid might be a few slices short of a loaf. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, if we eat the right…
Nathan Ferguson (pictured) has traveled here 108 times and now, he has taken his 109th trip—that would be directly to jail! It seems that Ferguson…
Earvin “Magic” Johnson continues to inspire the very community that reveres his aspiring legacy, as it’s just been declared Johnson along with Kimbra and Mark…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A South Side neighborhood in Chicago is getting long-sought federal protection from President Barack Obama, whose visit on Thursday could also provide a political lift to the city’s mayor. Obama will formally designate the neighborhood where African-American railroad workers won a historic labor agreement in the 1930s. In the process, the president’s […]
Warning: Explicit, NSFW language. They say there is nothing like a woman scorned. Well, such was the case when an angry woman slashed the tires and wrecked her ex-boyfriend’s car. Cue Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Bust The Windows’. Watch the video above! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. (Photo/Video Source: YouTube)
Oh well, back to the drawing board. Last August, two men – Dannez W. Hunter and Larnell Evans, Jr. – who claimed to be the great-grandsons of Anna Short Harrington, who portrayed syrup and pancake figurehead Aunt Jemima filed suit against PepsiCo and the Quaker Oats Company, claiming that the defendants had failed to pay […]
DENVER (AP) — Denver’s police chief told officers not to intervene but to stand by and watch as protesters threw red paint on a memorial for fallen officers during a weekend march against police brutality. The stand-down order upset some officers, who said it sends a message that protesters can get away with increasingly brazen […]
Editor’s Note: StartClass.com who originally reported and gathered the data for the list of “The 25 Most Dangerous Colleges” has released the following statement regarding inaccurate information in their findings: We identified an error in the original analysis of the data used in the Feb. 3, 2015 report on dangerous colleges in the United States, […]
PARIS (AP) — A group of Chelsea fans have been filmed preventing a black man from boarding a subway train in France before the team’s Champions League game at Paris Saint-Germain. After twice pushing the man away, the group — some of whom chanted “Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea” moments before Tuesday’s incident — then sing “we’re […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis area authorities planning for a grand jury announcement had proposed stationing Missouri National Guard troops and armored Humvees in a Ferguson neighborhood where Michael Brown had been shot by a policeman, according to records released Tuesday detailing the state’s preparations. The Guard wasn’t preemptively deployed to Ferguson’s most […]
MIAMI – Arnold Donald has swag. Not the phony suburban swag, but that old-school, down-home New Orleans Black neighborhood kind of swag that signals the confident chief executive strolling into the board room is clearly in charge. As Carnival Corporation’s first African-American CEO, Donald has prepared for this high-level, high-profile, high-paid position all his life. […]
During a recent meeting in Washington, Dr. William Harvey, longtime president of Hampton University and Chairman of President Obama’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs expressed his…
