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Four Georgia women are suing a nursing company because they say their management wouldn’t send Black nurses to take care of white patients. Also read: Bistro Chez Lucienne: French in the Heart of Harlem Also read: Ex-Cop To Be Sentenced For Cover-up Of Hurricane Katrina Shootings The women claim Accord Services violated their civil rights […]

As former football star Terrell Owens sorts out his financial trouble, one of his children’s mother, Monique Reynolds, is being asked to accept reduced child support payments. A rep for Owens said “His child support payments should mirror his income today and not be based on his income from over four years ago.” See also: Terrell Owens […]

The Human Rights Campaign has launched a campaign featuring prominent African Americans in support of same sex marriage. NAACP head Julian Bond, comedian Mo’Nique, and Newark Mayor Corey Booker have all made video testimonials supporting gay marriage. Also read: Bistro Chez Lucienne: French in the Heart of Harlem Also read: Ex-Cop To Be Sentenced For […]

NEW YORK — An accused rapist who is currently on trial for sexually assaulting five women in New York was accused of plagiarism by prosecutors. Prosecutors claimed that Hugues Akassy used quotes that were really from PBS talk show host, Charlie Rose. Also read: Bistro Chez Lucienne: French in the Heart of Harlem Also read: Ex-Cop […]

The National Restaurant Association paid $35,000 in severance pay in the late 1990s to one of the women who accused then chief executive, Herman Cain, of sexually inappropriate behavior, sources said on Tuesday. See also: Rush Limbaugh: Herman Cain Harassment Story ‘Unconscionable, Racially Stereotypical Attack’ The details of the incident are still murky, but according […]

Glendale, Arizona homicide detectives are now overseeing the missing-persons case of 5-year-old Jahessye (Jesse) Shockley, the Arizona Republic reports. See also: Jahessye Shockley’s Family Claims Police Let Race, Mom’s Criminal Past, Stand In Way Of Search Mother of missing 5-year-old Glendale girl gives birth Shockley has been missing since Oct. 11 after she wandered from […]

Our sister site HelloBeautiful.com recently took to the streets of downtown Manhattan to explore and profile the Black female faces of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. See Also: Black Travel In NYC: Head To The Coffee Shop In Union Square See Also: DSK Rape Case To Be Turned Into Porn Film? Here is an excerpt […]

In response to the recent murder of Zurana Horton, a 34-year-old mother of 13 who was killed by a stray bullet last Friday,  Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for an end to gun possession in African-American communities. See Also: Does Kim Kardashian Want To Be Elizabeth Taylor? See Also: Black Travel: Visit Nashville, Tennessee For Some Country

A series of shootings occurred last night in Washington D.C. as the city celebrated Halloween. Various confrontations between area youth sparked the gunfire which started in the Georgetown neighborhood. See Also: Black Travel: Visit Washington D.C. See Also: Heidi Klum, Seal Do Gorillas For Halloween According to WJLA-TV/ABC7, a confrontation started between two groups of […]

The NAACP has recently started a campaign aimed at securing the nomination of a Black judge to a predominantly Black district in North Carolina. Leaders of the state chapter of the NAACP say that there has never been a Black federal judge in the Eastern or Western District court.  Roughly half the state’s African-American population […]