Nation

LOS ANGELES- — A reporter for KABC-TV channel 7 in Los Angeles was shot with a BB gun during a live  newscast last week. Leanne Suter, who was standing near a highway when she was reporting on a story, was shot with a BB gun and it was caught on video. The Huffington Post Reports: […]

NEW YORK-Professors from New York colleges including NYU, Barnard and Columbia as well as their archaeology students have uncovered a lost Black village under Central Park in New York City. BET.com reports: At its height, Seneca Village was a robust community of nearly 300 people that existed between between the 1820s and 1850s. Though it […]

NEW YORK — Due to the recession and rising college fees, many female students are turning to older men with money or “sugar daddies” to help them pay their college loan debt. The article talks about the website, Seekingarrangement.com, which is home to “college tuition sugar daddies.” The pieces focuses on a young, New York […]

MONEY, Miss.— The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is providing $152,000 to restore a gas station as part of the story of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was lynched for whistling at a white woman in 1955. Ben Roy’s Service Station stands next to what used to be Bryant’s Grocery and […]

NEW YORK — A Bronx high school principal has been connected to white supremacist groups and philosophies. Frank Borzellieri, a principal at Our Lady of School Mount Carmel in the Bronx, has a majority student population of Blacks and Latino students which makes this even more shocking to many parents. The New York Daily News […]

President Obama and leaders of the Senate say they’ve cut a deal to head off a historic American default. “Leaders from both parties have come together for the sake of our economy to reach a historic, bipartisan compromise that ends this dangerous standoff,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on the Senate floor Sunday […]

Controversial shock-jock Rush Limbaugh recently said that helping President Obama on anything “hurts the country.” The quote by Limbaugh came in response to a comment made by a Washington Post columnist, Colbert King. “So for Colbert king to say, ‘Rush Limbaugh, his biggest concern was Republicans should do nothing to help Obama.’ Damn right. Damn […]

The remnants of an entire black community pushed out by the creation of Central Park in the 1850s are being given new life thanks to a team of anthropologists and historians who have been busy digging up the items for the past eight weeks. Settled in the 1820s, Seneca Village was a mostly black community […]

A CBS news station is under fire after it misquoted a 4-year-old boy making him purposely sound violent on the air. In the video, the child tells a reporter from WBBM that the shootings don’t scare him and that, when he grows up, “I’m going to have me a gun.” The comment made it seem […]

The George Clinton concert wasn’t the only funky thing going on this Saturday in Cleveland. An unidentified person fired numerous shots nearby a Clinton concert in Cleveland on Sunday, police said. Police spokesman Sergeant Sammy Morris confirmed that a 16-year-old shot in the head Saturday night died early Sunday at a hospital. Read more here […]

WASHINGTON  — Republicans have muscled legislation to extend the government’s borrowing authority and cutting spending through the House over solid Democratic opposition. LINK: Sharpton: Debt Fight About ‘Your Mama,’ Not Obama LINK:Will President Obama Invoke The 14th Amendment And Raise The Debt Ceiling? The 218-210 vote sets up a confrontation with the Democratic-controlled Senate and […]

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the FBI to uncover information on possible unconstitutional investigations of certain racial and ethnic groups. The ACLU would like to expose the use of the FBI’s Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide, which they believe may have been used to map people and businesses in Michigan considered “ethnic oriented.” Mark […]