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Varnette Honeywood, an artist whose paintings adorned the walls of the set of “The Cosby Show” and whose strikingly colorful images depicted tender moments in black family life, has died. She was 59.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty fell to challenger Vincent Gray in a grueling Democratic primary that left candidates and voters waiting until 1:30 a.m. Wednesday before definitive unofficial results were announced. If Mr. Gray’s lead holds and Mr. Gray wins in November, it will mark the first time in the city’s history that a council chairman […]
Bronx voters sent scandal-scarred state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. back to Mamaroneck on Tuesday.
The Tea Party movement scored another victory on Tuesday, helping to propel a dissident Republican, Christine O’Donnell, to an upset win over Representative Michael N. Castle in the race for the United States Senate nomination in Delaware.
Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel prevailed in a crowded Democratic primary Tuesday, with voters in his New York City district signaling they are willing to stand by the 40-year House veteran despite more than a dozen ethics charges pending against him.
The HBCU Network, a “24/7,” 365 days a year sports, “edutainment” and lifestyle network dedicated to the 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) across the United States, will launch in 2011, it was announced today by holding company C3 Media, LLC. Designed to fill a void in the cable industry, the channel will be […]
The opening of the massive Comic-con convention a few months ago provided days of comic book related news coverage. However, few of the images from that event were of African Americans. The dearth of African American perspectives in mainstream comic books inspired many black artists to create webcomics. Read more at Blackweb2.0 Click here to […]
A federal inmate who has filed more than 3,800 lawsuits and targeted the famous, the infamous and even the long-dead is now being sued by federal officials who want him to knock it off.
This past weekend, the NY Daily News released a shocking story claiming that respected Hip-Hop manager, Jimmy “Henchmen” Rosemond was a federal informant. The paper claims that Rosemond’s “snitching” led to a Brooklyn man being sent to jail. Earlier this morning, a stream of statements repudiating the NY Daily News reports came from musicians, legal […]
A 3-year-old girl died Sunday after being left in a car in a Tampa church’s parking lot for 90 minutes, police said Monday.