For iPhone: A brilliant, up and coming, young doctor goes missing leaving a whole lot of questions for her family, her friends and her loved ones. But 30-year old Dr. Teleka Patrick’s disappearance and the information coming out in the months since she went missing on December 5th of last year are painting a picture […]
For iPhone: The whole country is watching New York City to see with it does with its controversial “Stop and Frisk” policy. The new Mayor Bill de Blasio knows it. That’s why he’s tasked his newly-appointed police commissioner Bill Bratton to figure it out. Part of that figuring it out process is to try to […]
For iPhone; What’s the truth about Obamacare? Is it a success or not? Those are good questions considering the deadline to sign up without penalty ran out at midnight. So let’s remove the partisan posturing and bias and just stick to the facts when it comes to “The Affordable Care Act.” The facts are the program started […]
For iPhone; Ever heard of Connor Smallnut? If you haven’t, get ready. Connor Smallnut is Nick Cannon- Nick Cannon dressed in white face, a plaid shirt and a skull cap. Connor Smallnut is the white character Nick Cannon is using as a stunt vehicle to promote his new album titled, “White People Party Music.” Cannon […]
For iPhone; Something I truly never thought about or never experienced when I was growing up is a child being suspended from preschool. It is surprising that it does happen. But it’s sad that those who are suspended most often are black children- children who because the history of this country, are already starting out […]
For iPhone; Where is that missing plane? That is the million dollar question. It has been two weeks since Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared, and now there are signs that they may have found pieces of it off the Australian coast. How in this day and age with all the technology- satellites, cameras, radar, cellphones- can something […]
For iPhone; I ask because not so long ago, had I said a celebrity had been kicked out of rehab again and had to report back to jail, the first person you’d think I was talking about was Lindsay Lohan. Why?— In and out of rehab, jail, fights, nightclub scuffles, odd pictures on the internet, […]
For iPhone users: For the past few days we have been inundated with mysteries and tragedies in the news. One is the mysterious disappearance of an airplane. One of the tragedies is the violent explosion of two residential buildings right here in New York City. In both instances lives and attitudes changed immediately. Paul Weeks […]
Is Don Lemon ready for his weekly close up? Things seem to point in that direction. According to The Huffington Post, CNN is experimenting with a new weekly show hosted by the “CNN Newsroom” anchor. The series, called “The Don Lemon Show,” will air “tentatively” at 10 p.m. Monday nights for approximately five weeks. Lemon’s […]
For iPhone users: We first learned and I first reported on the power of Black Twitter back in the summer after the George Zimmerman verdict. Remember Juror B-37, the first to speak out after the George Zimmerman trial? She had clinched a deal to write a book about her experiences during the trial. That was […]
For iPhone users: Except for news stories or commentaries, I can’t remember the last time I used the N-word. I don’t use it in my private life, not even to refer to my friends or buddies. I don’t call people my N-words. I don’t see it as a term of endearment. And by no means […]
CNN’s Don Lemon has an emotional reaction to President Barack Obama‘s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative. What do you think about Obama’s plan for young men of color? Want to see more videos like this? Head over to “The Black Beat” to see what other viral videos and stories we’re sharing! Visit HERE
