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Barbershops are central to the narrative of Black manhood in the United States. It is where jokes are cracked, friends are made, issues debated, and,…
A figurine of a smiling President Barack Obama was spotted in a men’s urinal at the GOP’s Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference on Friday. The Huffington Post’s…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been charged with attempted murder after throwing a pan of hot grease and grits at a man who was on his front porch. Edward Holley told investigators that he had gotten into an argument with Darryl Blacknell on Tuesday night. When he saw Blacknell on his porch […]
Joyner and Hart doing big things for the community! Tom Joyner confirmed that while Kevin Hart was co-hosting for 3 hours on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show leading into the release of his latest movie ‘Think Like a Man Too’, Hart offered to donate $50,000 to send the Texas Southern University’s band to […]
When a severe flu pandemic closed the doors of Lela Burden’s (pictured) high school 96 years ago for a time, she decided to work two jobs…
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said ‘Justice delayed is justice denied,’ but for the Central Park Five, justice has come at last. The New York Times is reporting that the City of New York has agreed to a $40 million settlement in the infamous case. In 1989, five Black and Hispanic teenagers […]
Surely the Stockton police department had no idea that posting the photos of several men caught up in a weapons raid would go viral. When Jeremy Meeks, 30 and Terry Bailey, 22 had their mugshots posted on Facebook in a self-congratulatory post by the Stockton Police, their captors were unprepared for the social media response. […]
A 31-year-old Texas man is facing 95 years in jail after spreading HIV to a 15-year-old girl. Matthew Louis Reese may possibly be spending the…
William “Bill” Rawls, Jr. became the first African-American mayor in the city of Brownsville in Tennessee. The historic mark is additionally noteworthy as Rawls defeated…
Daniel Saenz, 37, was fatally shot by El Paso, Texas police officer Jose Flores, 40, while handcuffed on the ground, and newly released surveillance video captured the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shelly Sterling’s attorneys will ask a judge Thursday to order Donald Sterling and his attorneys to stop threatening, harassing or intimidating his wife’s legal team and the doctors who determined the Los Angeles Clippers’ co-owner was mentally incapacitated. A person with knowledge of the legal proceedings told The Associated Press that […]
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — Michigan authorities say a man tried to throw a football loaded with drugs and cellphones into the yard of a state prison. State Trooper Toby Baker says Sunday’s throw in Jackson fell short, with the football landing between two fences, not in the yard where prisoners exercise. An officer at the […]
