LUBBOCK, Texas — A former star athlete who posed as a teenager to play high school basketball in West Texas was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after reaching a plea deal, a prosecutor said. Guerdwich Montimere, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and three counts of tampering with government records, […]
The New England Patriots have acquired wide receiver Chad Ochocinco after he accepted a restructured three-year contract from the Patriots, a source told ESPN.com’s John Clayton. Terms of the trade weren’t known. He was scheduled to make $6.35 million for the Bengals this year. The Patriots wanted him to restructure his contract to fit their cap. Ochocinco […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — A  good samaritan who distributed meals to the homeless and less fortunate was killed in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday. Paris Powell, 29, was shot in the head while delivering food from his family’s van on the 1000 block of 47th Avenue in Oakland. Powell’s wife and 3-year-old step daughter were also struck, but […]
When will he learn? Former NBA star Jalen Rose, who was sentenced to 20 days in jail this past Tuesday for a DUI, was cited for speeding a day after his sentencing. Rose was clocked going 46 m.p.h. in a 25-m.p.h. zone shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday night, Clawson Police Chief Harry Anderson said. He […]
ATLANTA — The president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., has died seven months after taking office, the venerable civil rights group said Thursday. Damien Conners, the SCLC’s national program director, said the 57-year-old Creecy died of an apparent heart attack in Atlanta early Thursday. Creecy, pastor of The Olivet […]
BRANDON, Miss. — An ex-convict pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a white supremacist in his rural Mississippi home and returning the next day to set fire to the crime scene.Vincent McGee had been charged with capital murder after Richard Barrett’s body was found beaten, stabbed 16 times and burned in April 2010. But the 23-year-old […]
LOS ANGELES–A crazed woman reportedly grabbed a stranger’s baby from out of a stroller, slammed the infant into a pole and tried to break the baby’s arm off so that she could eat it. The infant’s mother and aunt fought off the suspect Natasha Hubbard, until she fled. With the help of witnesses, the police […]
AFRICA — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reportedly ordered its partners in Africa to give children vaccination shots by gunpoint. The organization has a goal to vaccinate every single child on the planet. Your Black World Reports: According to a recent report in the Malawi Voice, at least 131 Malawian children were vaccinated this […]
BOSTON — Microsoft founder Bill Gates says success should not depend on the race or income of parents. Gates told the National Urban League on Thursday in Boston that people in education  must “end the myth” that poverty needs to be eradicated before reforming education. He also mentioned that he believes a high school degree […]
As the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case continues to unfold, his accuser Nafissatou Diallo is caught in an old, deplorable game of demonizing the woman — and Black women in particular — as sexual aggressors and prostitutes. The media’s continued assault on her character practically forced her to come forward, defend her character and profess her truth. […]
WASHINGTON — The recent terrorist attack in Norway has U.S. officials concerned about right wing extremism in the U.S. The Huffington Post reports: “As it stands today, we have been much more focused than at any time in the last 10 years on threat posed by homegrown terrorism,” a senior DHS counterterrorism official told The […]
With the recent bombing and shootings in Oslo committed by madman Anders Breivik, we decided to take a look back and find the 10 most notorious white terrorists of all-time. When you hear the word terrorist in our national media conversation, you usually hear the words Islamic and Muslim right before it. But rarely do […]
