Fannie M. Richards was born (1841). She became an educator and civil rights activist. Black and white abolitionists smashed into a courtroom at Syracuse, NY, and rescued a fugitive slave (1851). John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University (1868), the first in a black school. Morgan State College was founded […]
“Tony Curtis has left an indelible imprint of himself in the hearts and minds of fellow human beings around the globe. He has shared his lust for life with them. There was a bright side forever present, not only in his artistry, but also throughout much of his daily life. He was open, always, to […]
The body of Tyler Clementi was found in the Rutgers suicide near the Hudson River. A body fished from the water north of the George Washington Bridge was identified Thursday as Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who killed himself after his sex life was exposed on the internet. The 18-year-old New Jersey man was […]
A Kentucky doctor is charged with sodomy after police said he sexually assaulted a female patient. According to arrest records, Dr. Ashok Alur admitted to the act.
The city has told 200 families on the brink of homelessness to fend for themselves in an experiment that has cruelly turned them into virtual lab rats.
Feds claim men lied under oath about convention center shooting. Two New Orleans police officers were charged Thursday with lying under oath about the shooting death of a man outside the city’s convention center in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, the latest case generated by a broad Justice Department probe of the police department.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson has a good article at the Grio on Kentucky GOP Senate candidate, Rand Paul and his relationship to the white supremacist community. Rand Paul was previously criticized for having a white supremacist, Chris Hightower, as a campaign operative and for criticizing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his father, Ron Paul […]
Comedian Greg Giraldo died Wednesday (September 29) at age 44 from a reportedly accidental prescription-drug overdose. Giraldo had been hospitalized in New Brunswick, New Jersey, after he overdosed on prescription pills last weekend. According to TMZ, the overdose was not a suicide attempt.
Worth an estimated $2.1bn, Aliko Dangote is one of the richest men in Africa.
Spencer LeGrande says he decided to speak out after seeing others come forward with their stories.