Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama in Iowa recently on the issue of food stamps, saying that the President lavishly gives government aid to people who use the money for vacations. SEE ALSO: Biggest Villains of 2011 Biggest Christmas Toy Fads The presidential candidate compared food stamps to credit cards in his rant at a “slice […]
Herman Cain’s rise and fall would have been more surprising had he not been a Black politician. From Adam Clayton Powell to Marion Barry, from Charles Rangel to David Patterson, many Black voters expect their leaders to be taken down at some point by the powers that be. With Cain, Black America held its breath, […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa.– Ex-Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has posted $250,000 bail after spending a night in jail following new child sex abuse charges filed against him. RELATED: Sandusky Accuser: “I Screamed For Help From His Wife” Court records Thursday morning show Sandusky posted bail using $200,000 in real estate holdings and a $50,000 certified […]
Ramie Grimmer, the daughter of Rachelle Grimmer the woman who killed herself and shot her two children after being denied welfare at a benefits office in Laredo, Texas has died from her wounds. Before she died Ramie Grimmer posted “May Die 3day on her Facebook page. The New York Daily News reports: Her 10-year-old brother, […]
SAN ANTONIO-Natalie Johnson was fired for refusing to let a transgender woman use the womans dressing room at a Macy’s in San Antonio. Johnson claimed that her religious beliefs conflict with Macy’s transgender policy and that she was protecting female customers. KENS5 reports: “They wanted me to believe that the young man I was looking […]
A North Carolina school district forced a principal into retirement and issued an apology after 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett was suspended for calling his teacher “cute.” SEE ALSO: Hacker Steals A Half Million From Rich White Lady Alec Baldwin’s PERFECT Tracey Morgan Impression
CNN reports that 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike of Compton, Calif. has become the youngest Black woman in history to fly solo across America. She was coached by a Tuskeegee Airman. This story courtesy of YourBlackWorld TV: SEE ALSO: Hacker Steals A Half Million From Rich White Lady Alec Baldwin’s PERFECT Tracey Morgan Impression
WASHINGTON (AP) — Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional lines between rich and poor, according to new census data. Their migration is widening the income gap between whites and the inner-city blacks who remain behind, while making blacks less monolithic as a group and […]
New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In diplomatically polite terms, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper remained at odds Wednesday over a proposed oil pipeline from Canada through the United States, with Obama showing no interest in speeding up a project that the Canadian leader sees as vital to his nation’s economy. SEE ALSO: Obama […]