The NAACP has given a man who was convicted of a murder in 1992 an academic scholarship, numerous news sources reported Monday. Over two decades ago, Bruce Reilly, 38, was convicted of murder after he stabbed and Emerson College professor, Charles Russell, to death. Reilly plead no contest to second-degree murder and robbery and spent […]

According to a Wall Street Journal article from 2008, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s former campaign manager Kent Snyder, died of pneumonia in 2008 because he didn’t have any health insurance. The resurfacing of this article comes on the heels of Paul’s statement last week at the Tea Party debate about individuals with no health […]

Beginning today, voting for the 27th Annual Stellar Awards is open to the public and continues through through October 17, 2011. Your votes will help to determine the final nominees and winners in each category. To vote, simply visit the Stellar Awards website at www.thestellarawards.com. Be careful– music starts automatically on the site, so turn […]

NEW YORK — Reggae star Denroy Morgan was arrested in the Bronx after police claimed they found him with 25 pounds of marijuana in his car. Morgan is the father of the popular reggae group, Morgan Heritage. The arrest of the 66-year-old Morgan led to the apartment he was coming from being raided. Police claim […]

Rapper 50 Cent is on a campaign to tackle world hunger. His new energy shot drink, Street King, donates a portion of the revenue from each bottle sold to the United Nation’s World Food Program. See also: 50 Cent Selling “Sketchy Penny Stocks” On Twitter 50 Cent says Street King and its robust marketing campaign will […]

The White House recently rejected a bid to posthumously pardon Marcus Garvey. The campaign, led by a Jamaican lawyer in Florida, would overturn Garvey’s 1920s mail fraud conviction that imprisoned the Black leader for almost three years before he was released and deported to Jamaica. Garvey, who led the greatest mass movement of Blacks in […]

Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy. Also read: Chicago Soul Food Restaurants Disappear As Black Residents Leave With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example. “I know that […]

Former Atlanta Schools Head: “I Knew Nothing About The Cheating” Lie Detectors Uncover More Cheating In 5 Georgia Schools NEW YORK-A Bronx high school principal is being investigated for tampering with grades and creating fake courses to increase grade point averages. Eximius College Preparatory Academy Principal Tammy Smith is accused by the DOE for boosting […]

A re-emergence of Squeegee men, panhandlers who wash the windshields of your car in hopes of a small tip, is signifying desperate times for the jobless in New York City. Groups of men are now flocking to the busy streets of Manhattan to make a few dollars, as many jobless did back in the 1980s […]

CHICAGO — Police are searching for Soulchartirya Terry who was last seen in her military uniform leaving Phoenix Military Academy on Campbell Ave in Chicago. Terry has been missing for a week now and police are actively looking for leads. RELATED: 12-Year-Old Girl Solves Crime When Police Couldn’t RELATED: Family Blames Police After Missing 12-Year-Old […]