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A ten-year-old Black chef is spreading healthy eating to his peers. After watching his friends not eating right at school, Chazz Darby decided to do something about it. Darby, with the help of his mom Dorette Darby, created “My Own Food” interactive cooking for children of all ages with adult supervision. With meals like heavenly banana wrap […]

ST. ELMO, ALA.– A former candidate for one of Alabama’s U.S. Senate seats is being sought by authorities in Alabama after he allegedly tased a pastor during a church knife fight. While the exact details are not clear, various accounts are surfacing. In one account, Simone De Moore tased a pastor at New Welcome Baptist Church in St. […]

Dorothy Brunson, the first African-American woman to own a radio station, has died at 72-years-old. Brunson died Sunday of complications from ovarian cancer at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, according to Baltimore Sun. The media pioneer acquired Baltimore’s WEBB-AM in 1979 and later added stations in Atlanta and Wilmington, N.C., as well as a […]

Conservative cable news pundit Glenn Beck is once again back in the news for making controversial racially based remarks. This time, Beck said Obama would ignite race riots if he is not re-elected. “I firmly believe that race riots are on the way,” Beck told listeners of his radio show. “They are being encouraged…[the Obama administration] […]

​In a meeting with the Sun-Sentinel‘s editorial board Tuesday, Rep. Allen West compared being gay to liking chocolate chip ice cream or riding scooters. It’s part of his belief that being gay is a “behavior,” and he has frequently said that people “can change their behavior” but that he can’t change something like his skin color. Now, […]

OWENSBORO, Kentuck — Bob Howe points to an overgrown, muddy patch of land in a cemetery in Owensboro, gesturing to where the grave of the last man publicly executed in the United States may be. “I think it was over there,” said Howe, an 81-year-old lifelong Owensboro resident and retired county coroner. “I used to […]

WASHINGTON  — The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs. Facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and set up its own benefit systems. Congressional approval would be […]

Cops have taken another Uzi off the street – this one a 16-year-old girl charged with killing a rival gang member. Sahiah (Uzi) Davis, a freshly minted member of the Wave Gang, was ordered to rub out someone in her former crew, the Hood Starz, police sources said. “They wanted her to do this to […]

HOLLAND, Mich. — Seeking to align himself with a public beleaguered by economic uncertainty and frustrated by Washington, President Barack Obama declared Thursday: “There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics.” His toughly worded message — he said there was frustration in his voice, in case anyone missed the […]

CLEVELAND— A serial killer will be put to death for murdering 11 women and dumping their bodies around his property, a judge ruled Friday. Anthony Sowell should die by lethal injection for his crimes, Judge Dick Ambrose ruled, accepting the sentencing recommendation of the jury that convicted Sowell of aggravated murder. Sowell, 51, never looked […]

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s announcement of a $127 million project to help young black and Latino men was met with praise, but also some criticism over its funding on Thursday. The Young Men’s Initiative targets about 315,000 black and Latino men between the ages of 16 and 24, a demographic that has seen […]

NEW YORK — The U.S. Ski Team has dismissed an 18-year-old member of its development squad after he was accused of getting drunk and then urinating on a fellow passenger aboard a JetBlue flight to New York City. Robert “Sandy” Vietze (VEETZ), of Warren, Vt., was detained by police at New York’s Kennedy Airport Wednesday […]