CNN reports that 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike of Compton, Calif. has become the youngest Black woman in history to fly solo across America. She was coached by a Tuskeegee Airman. This story courtesy of YourBlackWorld TV: SEE ALSO: Hacker Steals A Half Million From Rich White Lady Alec Baldwin’s PERFECT Tracey Morgan Impression
New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before […]
Anyone who has followed the career of the Rev. Al Sharpton has witnessed a remarkable fitness transformation. The once-portly pompadoured preacher is now a fitness junkie. The Wall Street Journal just published a rather flattering profile of the now-svelte Black leader and talk-show host: SEE ALSO: Gingrich And Trump Propose “Apprentice” For Poor Kids Rev. […]
Sharron Smalls, the principal of Jane Addams High School in The Bronx, landed in hot water on Friday over the possibility that she improperly gave class credits to students. Now HALF of the entire senior class is in danger of not graduating because they do not have enough credits to do so. SEE ALSO: 7-Year-Old […]
In an exclusive video interview with the New York Times, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky denied allegations that he sexually abused dozens of boys over the last few decades, using his charity The Second Mile as a kind of “farm team” to pick his victims: “They’ve taken everything that I ever did […]
After much controversy about the hiring of the Rev. Al Sharpton to fill the MSNBC time slot vacated by liberal pundit Cenk Uygur, the new TV ratings are in, and Sharpton’s show is a smash. RELATED: Why Is The Media Scared Of Rev. Al Sharpton? While MSNBC has never been able to trump the conservative […]
In this week’s Newsweek, producer/director Tyler Perry has penned an open letter to one of the alleged victims of Jerry Sandusky in the scandal that has rocked Penn State University and the entire country: SEE ALSO: The Sex Addiction Epidemic I don’t know your name, but I know your face. I don’t know your journey, […]
Five years ago today, Sean Bell was shot dead by New York City police. The New York Times recalls the details of the shooting: In the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2006, Sean Bell, a 23-year-old New York City man due to be married later that day, walked out of a Queens strip club, […]
UPDATE — Via MSNBC: Violence erupted at Black Friday sales across the U.S. with one bargain-hunter left critically injured after being shot during a robbery and 15 other people injured when an angry shopper used pepper spray. Several of the incidents took place at Wal-Mart stores as millions of Americans loaded up on holiday purchases. Update 11:57 a.m. ET: An off-duty police officer […]
Pat Robertson never fails to deliver. More foolishness from America’s favorite crypto-Christian conservative crackpot. This via the Huffington Post: Pat Robertson appeared confused about macaroni and cheese while hosting “The 700 Club” Wednesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network following a clip of host Kristi Watts interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the clip, […]
@Questlove is one of our favorite folks to follow on “The Twitters.” But we notice that the normally loquacious Roots drummer has fallen loudly silent on his timeline since Fallon himself apologized to Bachmann for The Roots’ selection of the 1985 Fishbone song “Lyin’ A** B*tch” as her walk-on music. Read this piece here about […]
By this time tomorrow, many of us will be smacking our lips and filling our bellies. We’ll have the freedom to go to church to celebrate Thanksgiving, or not. And, if we want to take a YouTube jab at an elected official we don’t care for, we’ll be able to do that, too. But too […]