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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are attending parent-teacher conferences for their daughters. Obama and the first lady left the White House by motorcade on Tuesday morning for the drive to the private Sidwell Friends School in northwest Washington. Fifteen-year-old Malia and 12-year-old Sasha are students at the exclusive school.
Davion Only is a 15-year-old orphan who desperately wants something many people take for granted: A family. “I’ll take anyone,” Davion said as he stood in the pulpit of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida on a recent Sunday morning. “Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don’t care. […]
Philip Nace should thank his lucky stars he’s never run across anyone like Mumia Abu Jamal. Nace is the lead character in a YouTube video that was recently posted. Nace, a white Philadelphia cop, and his partner – also white – subjected two black men to what is known as a “stop and frisk” on […]
A few weeks ago we spoke with DJ and engineer Young Guru about teaching at USC. Following in the footsteps of artists like Bun B…
The University of Alabama recently came under fire for never allowing Black women to pledge in any of their sororities. So they did what any…
A Georgia man upset with his beard trimming, was stabbed with a straight razor by the barber who performed the cut last Wednesday. Carl Gilbert turned…
Michael Jackson is the Bret “The Hitman” Hart of music. He is the best there is, the best there was, and the best there…
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he doesn’t believe raising the city’s cigarette tax by 75 cents a pack will result in a larger local black market for cigarettes. Emanuel said Monday he has long supported cigarette tax hikes to provide “health care for others.” He says least $2 million of the $10 […]
BREINIGSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — If you ever had your lunch disappear from the office refrigerator, consider what one southeastern Pennsylvania man did: He called the cops. KYW-TV in Philadelphia reports that Upper Macungie Township police were called Oct. 10. That’s when, according to a police news release, an employee at Wakefern Food Corp. reported “that […]
GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Naquan Smith and his Grambling football teammates have no regrets about a nearly weeklong boycott that forced the university to forfeit its game against Jackson State on Saturday. Grambling players stood behind Smith Monday during a press conference outside of the Eddie Robinson Museum on campus. Smith said the entire team […]
It looks like “Christopher Wallace Way” is a no-go. According to reports, Brooklyn community board members objected to naming the intersection of St. James Place…
In a bizarre home invasion case, a Detroit family was in the process of letting their cat back into their residence when three men suddenly barged…
