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For more than two decades, the 52-year-old former Hawthorne, Calif., police officer has made a living embarrassing cops with a video camera. Stung by the rough treatment of his father during a 1987 traffic stop by another California department, Diop Kamau turned to a second career recording police across the country in compromising — often […]
October 15-17 are Community Healing Days We’re coming up on an annual celebration that not everyone is familiar with, but is tremendously important to the Black community. It’s called Community Healing Days, a three day period on the third weekend of every October designed to focus Black people on eliminating the tired, but powerful, myth […]
Singer Alicia Keys gave birth to bouncing baby boy today with husband Swizz Beatz in the ninth month of pregnancy. The couple recently married and announced Alicia Keys’ pregnancy.
Bakari Kitwana speaks with Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute for the Black World 21st Century, about the midterm elections and what’s at stake for African Americans this election season.
Allhiphop is reporting that Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a Columbia University Professor and former Fox News correspondent, is suing the Philadelphia Police Department over harassment. According to the lawsuit, the incident unfolded on June 17th in the city of Philadelphia, when Dr. Hill to produce his vehicle registration, to which Hill complied. After questioning why […]
Yesterday, President Barack Obama sat down with MTV News’ Sway, BET’s April Woodard, CMT’s Katie Cook, a group of young people and the entire Internet community for a conversation about whatever is on your mind. In an historic live event, MTV News and BET News presented “A Conversation With President Obama,” a frank town hall […]
These UFO sightings are getting out of control. I’ll believe them when I see them. Well the NYC “UFO” sighting turned out to be just a bunch of balloons for a teacher’s engagement party. Here’s the New York Daily News report. “UFO? They’re crazy – those are our balloons!” said Angela Freeman, head of the […]
ATLANTA — Health officials estimate that 1 in 22 black Americans will be diagnosed with the AIDS virus in their lifetime – more than twice the risk for Hispanics and eight times that of whites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the numbers Thursday. The report says the lifetime risk is 1 in […]
Things got so heated between Bill O’Reilly, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” that the co-hosts walked off the set of the show. The incident occurred during a fiery exchange about the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. O’Reilly said President Obama’s qualified support of the center was evidence of the “gulf” […]
People are already anointing the Miami Heat as the greatest NBA team of all time. Even if they play their best with no injuries or chemistry issues, I doubt they could have beat the Top 3 Teams listed here. Here are the Top 10 NBA Teams of All Time. sorry old folks but I don’t […]