The Republican Party has become what Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill described to me as a “race to the bottom,” where the easiest way to lose traction in your candidacy is to prove yourself qualified for the job. SEE ALSO: Haitian Children Remain In Adoption Limbo Now that some of the best Republican candidates […]
From CBS News: There’s been a new twist in the Florida A&M hazing investigation, as the parents of a student who was beaten to death in November tell CBS News something previously unknown about him: Robert Champion Jr. was gay. SEE ALSO: Beverly Johnson Reveals “Price” Of Fame Haitian Children Remain In Adoption Limbo CBS […]
The Shelby County school board in Birmingham, Alabama, is being forced to defend its decision to reinstate 4th grade teacher Danny Acker (pictured), after he was accused of molesting a student nearly 20 years ago. Now that the man is behind bars for doing the same thing to countless other children, the board’s feet are […]
Former fashion model Nicole Weider is leading a Change.org campaign demanding that Cosmopolitan Magazine be sold in a non-transparent wrapper to adults. She feels it does nothing but promote disorder.
In 2002, stripper Tamara Greene was rumored to have performed for then-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the city’s Manoogian Mansion. Months later, she turned up dead. SEE ALSO: Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat N’Dour Halts Music Career For Presidency In Detroit and elsewhere, the murder of Greene has been the subject of whispers and […]
By Joy-Ann Reid Responding to criticism over his statement that he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better with other people’s money,” Rick Santorum said that far from holding negative views about African-Americans, he worked closely with black former congressman J.C. Watts and former RNC chairman Michael Steele, and was a champion of black […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his chief of staff William Daley is resigning after a year on the job to return to his native Chicago and spend more time with his family. Obama says Daley will be replaced by Budget Director Jack Lew, whom Obama called the “clear choice” for one of the […]
Tavis Smiley was set to deliver the keynote address at an MLK luncheon hosted by the Peoria Civic Center next week in central Illinois until a group of Obama supporters demanded that he be replaced or face a boycott, Politico reports. SEE ALSO: School Used Slavery Theme For Math Lesson Has No Child Left Behind […]
U.S. federal agents helped a Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian suppliers launder and smuggle money across the world according to a new report from the New York Times. Agents would help, Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, also known as “The Rabbit” launder money, through wire transfers and smuggling and even helped Poveda-Ortega ship and even escorted […]
Across the nation, black men are killing each other at an alarming rates and the problem is only getting worse, Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. SEE ALSO: Terrence Howard’s Nasty Divorce Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat While John-Hall reports that black male-on-black male killings are a national issue, she uses her home […]