Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos. According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms: On June 30, a young African-American […]
Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans is the latest premiere NFL holdout to demand more money. Johnson wants to be the highest paid running back in the NFL, requesting a contract extension worth a reported $39 million over the first three years. And while his statistics speak for themselves, a more relevant dynamic is on […]
Everybody is worried about the U.S. debt ceiling. But it’s even more important to worry about your own. Ryan Mack shows you how to obtain and use credit cards to establish a credit history: Read all of Ryan Mack’s financial tips in Your Money In The Black. More from Ryan Mack: Building Your Credit Score […]
Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress spoke to Bryant Gumbel recently about how his race may have affected the jury’s decision in the 2009 gun possession case that landed him in prison for two years. Burress, who was charged with illegally carrying and firing a gun at a Manhattan nightclub, told Gumbel that he […]
It seems that Rush Limbaugh never gets tired of trying to expose the president on some front. On his radio show, Limbaugh started saying that President Obama hasn’t been vetted because his past classmates, girlfriends, and others have never come out to speak against him. “I got one of these email things,” Limbaugh said on […]
Like the rest of the country, I couldn’t help but notice the occurrence of Black teen ‘”flash mobs” around the country. For those who haven’t been made hip to the game, flash mobs are random groups of people who get together and do “stuff.” The acts committed by flash mobs can be naïve and cute, […]
SHEBEDINO, Ethiopia — Malnourished children are flocking into feeding centers in this forested corner of southern Ethiopia after a drought in East Africa extended into this normally fertile region. While the famine in southern Somalia has grabbed headlines, southern Ethiopia is teetering on the brink of a food crisis. The Ethiopian government says 250,000 people […]
Two members of the famous Buffalo Soldiers were honored yesterday in the South Bronx when a renovated park was named after them. Officially renamed the Charlton Thompson Memorial Garden, the once neglected park’s renovations were a six-year effort by veterans who wanted to honor the two Bronx heroes for their sacrifice. Army Sgt. Cornelius Charlton and […]
NEW YORK — The former president of the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization for Black firefighters in New York City, recounted numerous incidents of racial discrimination, saying Black firefighters were”effectively ostracized” by their white colleagues, yesterday in a discrimination trial agaisnt New York City’s Fire Department. Paul Washington, 49, described rampant use of the N-word and […]
TULSA, Okla — A 25-year-old man who has struggled with mental illness surrendered to police after staying on top of a TV tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma for six days. William Boyd Sturdivant II was taken to a hospital and later a mental health facility after finally getting off the tower. The New York Daily News reports: […]
Every successful financial plan needs to have clean credit and a high FICO score. If we are to see more home and business ownership having good credit is the first step towards accomplishing this goal. Too many times I have personally seen many opportunities missed because we have not taken the time to “clean” our […]
New York University paid an African worker $210,000 in a settlement suit after his supervisor called him a “monkey” and a “gorilla.” “Do you want a banana?” NYU employee Osei Agyemang was asked by his boss at NYU’s Bobst Library. According to Agyemang, his boss taunted him with such racially inflammatory remarks for nearly two years. The […]
