JARRATT, Va. — The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia on Thursday for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment. Teresa Lewis, 41, died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. She became the first woman executed […]
Bishop Eddie L. Long maintained a consistent presence on Twitter and Facebook before sexual coercion charges were brought up against him on Tuesday, September 21st. But he’s been understandably absent from the social networks since then. On Thursday (September 24th), Bishop Long sent a message to his Facebook friends and Twitter followers that simply reads: […]
Take a Giant Step, a play by Louis Peterson, opened on Broadway (1953). Patrick Kelly, an African-American designer who became famous in Paris, born (1954). President Eisenhower orders federal troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. to prevent interference with school integration of nine Black students (1957). U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered […]
For the first time ever, New York Fashion Week debuted a plus-size-only runway show hosted by OneStopPlus.com. It was the first ever plus-size fashion show to take place at a Major Fashion week. OneStopPlus.com is a company that sells plus-size clothing for full-figured women sizes 12 to 44, as well as lingerie, accessories and wide-width […]
The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that the percentage of minority news directors rose in both television and radio in 2009 but, overall, the percentage of minorities in both radio and television fell for the third straight year, although the drop in television was small.
A woman is claiming that she was stabbed after her daughter made a comment about another woman’s 4-year-old baby being ugly according to NBC Chicago. Tiffany Scott, 39, says she was stabbed several times over comments her 18-year-old daughter made about a friend’s 4-day-old baby on the social networking site. “When you read the comments […]
A Massachusetts woman has been charged with disguising herself as a man so she could rob her own 79-year-old grandmother.
Andrew Young, the former black civil rights leader and confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., was asked about the recent revelation that famed civil rights photographer Ernest Withers spied on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the FBI. A growing number of people believe Young downplayed the significance of this betrayal.
James Brienzo, a man who is suspected of robbing a Wal-Mart in Alliance, Ohio who hid in a dumpster was compacted, the Huffington Post is reporting. A suspected Walmart shoplifter who hid from police in a dumpster may have chosen too good of a hiding spot. The suspect, identified as James Brienzo, saw the police […]
All across the airwaves, media outlets reported long standing children’s’ show, “Sesame Street” was pulling the skit of singer Katy Perry and Elmo’s remix of “Hot and Cold” off their season premiere episode due to excessive comments from parents complaining about too much cleavage from the “I Kissed A Girl” star.