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HOUSTON (AP) — Court documents indicate a deadly shooting at a house party in suburban Houston that left two teenagers dead and 19 hurt might not have started as a result of celebratory gunfire. Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia had said Saturday’s shooting began when someone fired a pistol in the air in celebration and […]
Magdalene Bedi, 17, a student at Northwest Rankin High School in Rankin County, Mississippi is suing the Rankin County School District for forcing students to…
(AP)- Supporters of a 14-year-old black boy executed in 1944 for killing two white girls are asking a South Carolina judge to take the unheard-of move of granting him a new trial in hopes he will be cleared of the charges. George Stinney was convicted on a shaky confession in a segregated society that wanted […]
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) – A Duval County School Board member has formally requested that the board consider changing the name of Nathan B. Forrest High…
Ever since Pinky became a popular actress in adult films, rumors have persisted that she had contracted HIV while working in the high-risk porn industry.…
The New York Police Department allegedly forced Quinshon Shingles to rap in order to avoid arrest, and now the 27-year-old aspiring rapper is filing a lawsuit,…
General Colin Powell has achieved well beyond his distinguished 35 years in the military. Not only was he the first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black Secretary of State, he was at one point a legitimate Republican political candidate. Powell is part of the proud history of Black veterans […]
Bethany Arceneaux, 29, who was taken hostage by her ex-boyfriend Scott Thomas on Wednesday, was rescued from an abandoned Louisiana house Friday afternoon by family…
According to a new study, NBA players are more likely to come from two-parent, wealthier family homes than that old notion of trying to escape from poverty. This new bombshell goes totally against the previous presumptive narrative that most elite black athletes overcome poverty on their way to the top. It seems LeBron James, who […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager was in police custody Sunday after a shooting at a crowded Manhattan ice-skating rink that left two people wounded and blood splattered across the ice. The violence late Saturday at the Bryant Park rink sent skaters stampeding in all directions to safety. Authorities said a 14-year-old boy was struck […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday offered his Republican Party a prescription to win: show up. Christie, fresh off a 22-percentage point win for re-election, said the GOP must go into Hispanic and black communities, talk with seniors and campaign in traditionally Democratic-leaning areas. It’s what helped him become the first […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement maker Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person in a gorilla mask in between them and asked: “Which drummer is not like the others?” The tweet, from Home Depot’s official Twitter account, @HomeDepot, was part of […]
