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DETROIT (AP) — Gates Brown, an outfielder who played his entire 13-year major league career with the Detroit Tigers, has died. He was 74. The team confirmed Brown’s death Friday. Brown, jailed for armed robbery in Ohio before starting his baseball career, played on Detroit’s 1968 team that won the World Series, and was part […]
MIAMI (AP) — When the first black residents of South Florida arrived in the 1880s from the Bahamas to work at the Peacock Inn on Biscayne Bay, they established the Village West neighborhood in Miami’s Coconut Grove section. The neighborhood thrived in the early 1900s with many black-owned businesses and single-family homes. But after World […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Evelyn Lowery, a pioneer in civil rights and women’s empowerment and the wife of the Rev. Joseph Lowery, died Thursday at her home in Georgia, a family spokeswoman said. Family spokeswoman Diane Larche said the 88-year-old Lowery died Thursday morning. She had been hospitalized since Sept. 18 after suffering a severe stroke […]
The Mass Media Arts Department at Clark Atlanta University (CAU) has formally adopted an academic internship program facilitated by the African American Film Critics Association…
Not long after 7-year-old Jakiyah McKoy won the title of the new Miss Chiquita Delaware did questions about her heritage lead to her being stripped of the title. McKoy is a Brooklyn, New York native who’s grandmother was born in the providence of La Vega in the Dominican Republic. Many people apparently felt Miss McKoy […]
Some people in this world are absolute nut jobs. A man got into a car accident and fatally shot the other driver and the…
When married couples have issues with their relationship, many take the traditional route of hashing out their differences under the guidance of a counselor or…
Michelle Harris, 28, the mother of 23-month-old Zion Harris who died from a laceration to her liver on September 24, was arrested and charged with…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Twitter is U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker’s preferred method of communication. He’s often seen at public events pecking away at his phone, sending his 1.4 million followers staccato updates, inspirational quotations, shoutouts to campaign volunteers and nerdy musings on “Star Trek.” But his social media habit raised some eyebrows this week […]
An Austin, Texas man is making headlines today for his ad seeking folks to help him find a girlfriend — just not a “black girl.” Not even “if she looks like Halle Berry.” Larry Busby, 39, is offering to pay anyone who finds him a girlfriend a $1,500 “finder’s fee.” But there are specific racial […]
The retailer that targets teens and young adults, Forever 21, has got itself in a bit of a PR pickle. The clothing company recently came up with a line of “Compton” t-shirts that are controversial to say the least. Actually, the t-shirts may never see the light of day at this point … at least […]
A Florida appeals court is ordering a new trial for a woman sentenced to 20 years to prison after she fired a warning shot in a wall during a dispute with her husband. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that a judge did not properly instruct the jury handling the case of Marissa Alexander. […]
