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CNN) — Restaurant chain KFC has launched a scholarship campaign that aims to keep it short and “tweet.”
Below is a video shot by the Huffington Post in Rep. Charles Rangel’s Harlem District. Many of the Harlem residents in this video believe that Rangel should be let off the hook for his ethics violations. Do you agree with Rangel’s constituents or do you think he deserves everything that is coming his way? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/video/video_3543.html?1290055633 […]
Florida family suing makers of Four Loco saying the drink led to their son’s death. Some are comparing the cheap and easily accessible drink to crack cocaine.
Florida (WBLR)– A 20-year-old Miami, Florida man, Michael Beatty, was gunned down over the weekend in front of several people, including one witness that saw it all: a convenience store video camera.
Nation (TheRoot)– The Root has a good article on the recent news on the disparity between the education levels on Black and white children and how to stop it: Back then, in the early ’70s, Siegfried Engelmann led a government-sponsored investigation called Project Follow Through. It compared nine teaching methods and tracked their results among […]
Tampa Florida (WTSP) — Debt collectors can be relentless and downright rude on the phone, but now Melanie Beacham, a St. Petersburg woman is filing suit alleging the company that financed her car loan began harassing family members over the social networking website Facebook.
Prosecutors say a rural Wisconsin man blasted his TV with a shotgun after watching Bristol Palin’s “Dancing with the Stars” routine, sparking an all-night standoff with a SWAT team.
99 years ago, the Fraternity Omega Psi Phi was founded by Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, students at Howard University on November, 17th 1911. Several prominent African Americans have joined the ranks of Omega Psi Phi, including adviser to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan, political activist, Jesse Jackson, basketball players Shaquille O’Neal […]
// // PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland police officer was fired and three others were suspended in connection with the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, officials said Tuesday. The discipline follows nearly 10 months of protests and tension between police and black leaders over the death of Aaron […]
Los Angeles (NBCNews)–Magic Johnson had some advice from up and coming business owners at a conference in Los Angeles designed to bring together investors and business owners from the inner city. NBC Los Angeles reports: “What you could do is rub elbows with them. Trade information. Tell them what you’re doing, what your business is, […]