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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police were investigating a drive-by shooting Monday that killed a man and an 18-year-old woman and wounded five other people, three of them children. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Sunday in the city’s Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and has struggled with […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to resolve allegations that minorities were singled out as suspected shoplifters at its flagship store, part of a spate of racial profiling complaints against major retailers last year. Barneys shoppers and ex-employees complained that detectives followed minority customers around — even after staffers identified them […]
The heirs of Anna Short Harrington, the lady who became the Aunt Jemima character, represented by D.W. Hunter, have filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo, The Quaker Oats Company, Pinnacle Foods Group and The Hillshire Brands Company. Hunter – the great grandson of Harrington – is seeking $2 billion, plus punitive damages to be determined at […]
An unarmed black teenager who was supposed to start college on Monday won’t make it there. Instead, his family is planning his funeral after he was shot by police in Ferguson, MO, a suburb of St. Louis. The St. Louis County Police Department held a press conference Sunday morning where they said Mike Brown, 18, was […]
This father-daughter song about the joys of hanging out together will be the best thing you watch today. The video was posted to Youtube by…
A diploma belonging to Harvard’s first African-American graduate, Richard T. Greener, has been the subject of concern after the man who discovered it threatened to…
A single mom from Philadelphia didn’t know it was illegal to bring the gun she was legally licensed to carry in Philadelphia into New Jersey and as a result could face 11 years in prison. Shaneen Allen was pulled over for a minor traffic offense and told the police about the gun and was arrested […]
What would you do if you were told your son’s funeral would be cancelled because he was gay? A Tampa, Florida mom got the chiling phone call one day before her son was scheduled to be laid to rest. According to WFLA.com: TAMPA, FL (WFLA) -Julie Atwood was standing at her son’s casket when the […]
Roland Martin, Traci Braxton and Natasha Eubanks chop up this week’s craziest stories on “WTH?! Thursday.” This week’s crazy list of stores include a woman…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Former TV judge Joe Brown has lost his bid to become the district attorney for the Tennessee county that includes Memphis.…
Here we go again. In ‘Things White People Think Of” news, there’s a new app called Sketch Finder. It’s aim: to help people avoid “sketchy” neighborhoods and people. Of course, given all the Black-on-white crime out there (sarcasm intended, it’s far more likely for both Blacks and whites to be maimed and murdered by their […]
Ten years ago, a bad relaxer led a teen girl to launch her own natural hair product company. Jasmine Lawrence appeared on “The Oprah Show” back…
