Video has surfaced online of a police officer pepper spraying students from the University of California Davis who were conducting a peaceful protest on campus. The video has led the chancellor of the university to call for an official investigation. See Also: Explore The Great Town Of Los Angeles, California “The use of the pepper […]
Kris Jenkins gave a decade of his life to pro football, first for the Carolina Panthers and then the N.Y. Jets. But he may spend the rest of his life recovering from the toll it took on his body. Jenkins explains in a compelling piece in the New York Times: N.F.L. fans, people outside, they […]
Harlem has long been a spiritual patchwork of storefront churches, lofty Christian congregations, mosques, synagogues, Five-Percenter meeting halls, and more. But now New York’s legendary Black neighborhood is home to a new and controversial denomination: Scientology. Terrell Starr reports: When you step inside, it feels more like a bookstore than a place of worship. The […]
LOS ANGELES — Walt Hazzard, the former UCLA and NBA star who played on the Bruins’ first NCAA championship basketball team in 1964 and later coached the team for four seasons in the 1980s, died Friday. He was 69. Hazzard’s family said he had been recuperating for a long time from complications following heart surgery. […]
Here’s a video making the rounds of the Black blogosphere today: This 6-minute video is a MUST-SEE! This gentleman quietly, decisively, and succinctly sums up why President Barack Obama is the epitome of “Promises Made and Promises Kept” and why some progressives and liberals are misguided in their expectations and criticisms of the POTUS. Check […]
NEW YORK — An ambitious and disciplined identity-theft ring recruited waiters at steakhouses and other high-end New York restaurants to steal diners’ credit-card information, then used it for luxury shopping sprees, authorities said Friday.
NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says the women who have accused him of making unwanted sexual advances are all lying.
TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam – the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large – was captured as he traveled with aides in a convoy in Libya’s southern desert, Libyan officials said Saturday. Thunderous celebratory gunfire shook the Libyan capital as the news spread. A spokesman for […]
ATLANTA — Black lawmakers have lost clout in Southern state capitols as their overwhelming allegiance to the Democratic Party has left them without power in increasingly GOP-controlled state legislatures.
WASHINGTON — When you’re a president running for reelection, it apparently helps to be a hoops junky, especially when the National Basketball Association is on hiatus. See Also: Visit The MLK Memorial In Washington D.C. With scant press attention, the Obama for America campaign has set up what it is billing as “The First Ever […]
