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Applebee’s issued an apology after gaining national attention for kicking a family out of one of its locations because the children were unruly. A spokesperson for Applebee’s admits the location’s management mishandled the situation. KEYETV reports: It began on Sunday night when Eli Gau and Lillian Maliti took their two young sons to an Applebee’s […]
Blatant racism has seeped into the U.S. Open tennis tournament – and I’m waiting for heads to roll. Scott Dennison, 56, a vice president for special events at Contemporary Services Corp., — the firm that handles security for the U.S. Open — repeatedly used the N-word and called blacks “scum suckers” and “worthless” in e-mails […]
CHICAGO (AP) — With the authenticity of a guitar supposedly signed by Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen called into question, authorities pulled the plug Friday on an online auction of personal belongings forfeited by Illinois’ prison-bound former congressman, Jesse Jackson Jr. The U.S. Marshals Service began the auction earlier this week to recoup part […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Those behind a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded, including a 3-year-old, used an assault-style weapon to spray the crowd with bullets, making it “a miracle” no one was killed, the city’s police superintendent said Friday. Ballistics evidence shows that those behind Thursday night’s attack […]
10-year-old Asia Newson has become Detroit’s youngest and cutest entrepreneur. The Grio is reporting that Asia sells candles with her dad and has already displayed…
A Connecticut school is under fire from parents who say a field trip that purported to immerse students in the underground railroad experience went way too far. James and Sandra Baker, parents of a student at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy, testified at a Hartford Board of Education hearing on Tuesday night–as the Hartford Court […]
High school students in Randolph County, North Carolina will no longer have the pleasure of reading Ralph Ellison’s landmark novel, “Invisible Man.” With a 5-2…
A Michigan mother is upset she wasn’t notified by her son’s school after he came home with multiple stab wounds he sustained while in class…
Pastor Corey Brooks of the New Beginnings Church in Chicago made headlines last year when he crisscrossed the country on a walking tour to raise money to build a community center on the site of an abandoned building near his church. Moved by his story, Tyler Perry made a donation to help defray building costs. […]
The annual Congressional Black Caucus weekend is this weekend and that means that there’s a lot going on. Although it’s become Known as one of the biggest Black events on the annual social calendar , there is a serious side to the gathering. Congresswomen Marcia Fudge, who represents Ohio’s 11th district, says that this year […]
The Mount Vernon Baptist Church congregation approved a $14.5 million deal to move, in order for the Atlanta Falcons to build a new stadium. Church members voted 116 to 16 to accept the $14.5 million buyout on Thursday night. A longtime church member, Vickie Johnson, told WSBTV, “I think it’s an abomination in the sight […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A 3-year-old boy who was among 13 people wounded in a late-night attack on a southwest Chicago park was alert when he arrived at the hospital and was apparently doing well, his family and friends said early Friday. The attack late Thursday in the city’s Back of the Yard neighborhood left three […]
