Video has surfaced of Seattle self proclaimed super hero, Phoenix Jones arrest showing he pepper sprayed someone who was attacking him. While previous reports claimed the victims of the pepper spray attack claimed they were “just dancing,” the video clearly shows that they were fighting. The video shows Jones saying “call 911” and being attacked […]
LOS ANGELES — A coroner testified Tuesday that there was no evidence that Michael Jackson gave himself the fatal dose of a powerful anesthetic that officials say killed the King of Pop. Dr. Christopher Rogers, who conducted the autopsy on Jackson, refuted the key claim by defense lawyers for Dr. Conrad Murray that Jackson self-administered […]
Police are searching for a man who they say stole $10,000 worth of merchandise from a Philadelphia K-Mart. The man allegedly disabled the alarm and stole video game systems, laptops and televisions before fleeing in an unknown direction. VIDEO: Read more at theGrio.com RELATED: Cornel West: “Cain Needs To Get Off The Symbolic Crackpipe”
The new documentary To Be Heard follows three students from the Bronx during a rough time period as they tell their story of friendship, struggle and making it off the streets when no one else believed they could. Karina Sanchez, Pearl Quick and Anthony Pittman, three best friends better known as “the tripod,” join a […]
NEW YORK — Rihanna says she resented Chris Brown for a time, but she’s put that behind her and is happy Brown has found success in music again.
ATLANTA-Camden County officials are considering a money-saving program that would put inmates in fire stations. The program would put two inmates in each of three existing firehouses in the south Georgia county, The Florida Times-Union reported. Inmates would respond to all emergencies — including residential fires — alongside traditional firefighters, authorities said. What?! Georgia May […]
Terrell Owens has had a tough year. The currently unemployed wide receiver is recovering from a torn ACL – an injury that he went as far as travelling to South Korea for stem cell treatment in an effort to get back on the field. But the hits keep coming. TMZ is reporting that the charismatic […]
HANOVER, N.H. — Mitt Romney’s campaign says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is endorsing him for the GOP presidential nomination. Romney and Christie will hold an event Tuesday in New Hampshire ahead of the presidential debate set at Dartmouth, N.H., where Christie will announce his support, the campaign said. Christie had been considering a presidential […]
While comparisons between the U.S. prison system and American slavery have long been made, the relationship is even more stark when you examine the numbers. According to U.S. Bureau of Justice estimates, as of 2008 more than 846,000 black men were in U.S. prisons, constituting 40.2 percent of all inmates in the system. Michelle Alexander, a […]
Everybody has a story — at least that’s what they say. I was recently discussing the latest in books with tireless blogger and journalist, Jessica Ann Mitchell of http://www.blackbloggersconnect.com, and she told me how many of her bloggers and followers consistently voice an interest in writing, publishing and marketing a book concept; and they are […]
Princeton University professor Cornel West responded to comments by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain claiming that racism no longer holds anyone back in this country. West thought the comments were ludicrous saying that Cain must be “smoking something” to say something of that nature. “Well, black people have been working hard for decades,” West remarked. […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to die at the hands of Republicans opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires. Obama has been waging a campaign-style effort seeking to rally public support behind the $447 billion measure, which will be the subject […]
