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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 […]
Torrie Lynn Emery, 23, of Pontiac, was ordered held without bond by 50th District Judge Preston Thomas. She is charged with second-degree murder, assault with intent to commit great bodily harm and child abuse.
The Tom Joyner Morning Show’s Roland Martin Interviews the lawyer for Bishop Eddie Long regarding his client’s recent sex abuse allegations. The bishop was originally slated to appear on the show but because a third person made allegations against Long he cancelled his appearance. Long’s lawyer spoke on the matter with the show.
Former New Orleans Police Officer Jeffrey Lehrmann was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for his part in the cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported today.