Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. sold social-networking site MySpace yesterday for $35 million. The sale was a disappointing one for Murdoch who bought the company at $580 million years ago when it was at its most popular peak. With the decrease in users and popularity over at MySpace, we wanted to ask you our audience, your […]
There is a petition on Change.Org to send to President Obama to encourage him to clear the name of Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican activist who started the “Back To Africa” movement in the 1920s in Harlem. President Calvin Coolidge granted Marcus Mosiah Garvey a pardon on November 18, 1927. However, he was deported to Jamaica […]
With millions of Americans unemployed, many economists believe a job growth program powered by another stimulus will help get Americans back into the workplace. While many Washington insiders heard Obama mention the word “slashing” throughout his news conference yesterday, many failed to miss the most important part which had to do with spurring growth. “One […]
Computer hackers have shut down the internet network Al-Qaeda was using to communicate its messages to the world, according to a terrorism expert. Hackers recently carried out a similar counter-terrorism effort by replacing bomb making tutorials with cupcake recipes. “Al-Qaida’s online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it does not have a single trusted distribution […]
NEW YORK — A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have been steadily draining […]
