From BBCNews.com: North Korea says it will use its “nuclear deterrent” in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend. Pyongyang was ready to launch a “retaliatory sacred war” at any time, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Washington and Seoul say the war games are to deter North Korean aggression. Tensions […]
From Freep.com: The wife and father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have asked a federal judge to quash a request to depose them in the lawsuit involving a slain stripper who was said to have danced at a long-rumored party at the mayoral Manoogian Mansion.
From Journalism.org: As a group, African Americans attracted relatively little attention in the U.S. mainstream news media during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency — and what coverage there was tended to focus more on specific episodes than on examining how broader issues and trends affected the lives of blacks generally, according to a […]
A Cherokee County man found a hidden treasure in a painting he bought at an auction: four pounds of marijuana. Gordon Clement, 80, discovered the pot stashed inside of the painting, which he bought at a post office auction about five years ago.
From Clutchmagonline.com: On Friday evening, cultural critic and writer Michaela angela Davis tweeted: “It is with a heavy heavy heart I have learned that Essence magazine has engaged a white fashion director, this hurts, literally, spiritually.” Michaela’s tweet erupted a series of reactions, re-tweets, and scores of Facebook comments. Responses ranged from shock, disappointment to utter confusion.
From TheRoot.com: In 1998, when President Bill Clinton was allowing Cuban artists to travel relatively easily in and out of the United States, I invited a well-known Cuban visual artist to visit my graduate class at Columbia College in Chicago. I wanted her to show the students her work and talk a little about what […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two Drexel University basketball players face robbery and weapons charges after an armed robbery at a fellow student’s apartment in which they went looking for cash but came away only with two cell phones, police said.
From NBCNewYork.com: Crackpot movie director Oliver Stone is out to do for Hitler and Stalin what he’s tried to do for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
According to the rookie first-round pick, Roy Williams and the other veteran receivers can carry their own shoulder pads after practice. Dez Bryant wouldn't take part in innocent rookie hazing at the hands of Roy Williams.
Earlier this week, The Council of Urban Professionals launched their inaugural “Digital Summit” at the SVA Theatre in midtown Manhattan. The summit which featured our own Chief Content Officer, Smokey Fontaine, was created to convene a mix of innovators in a provocative dialogue about the digital marketplace. Panels revolving around multi-cultural audiences online and the […]
