LOS ANGELES — E! Online has a post on their website with Michelle Obama and Gayle King wearing the same dress titled “Bitch Stole My Look.” Its not the first time E! Online has done something of the sort. They have used the “Bitch Stole My Look” theme for Rihanna, Leighton Meester, and Brandy vs […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The NAACP’s president is urging South Carolina’s Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that flies near her Statehouse office. NAACP protests led in 2000 to the flag being moved from atop the Statehouse dome and from House and Senate chambers to a monument outside the Statehouse. But NAACP head Benjamin Jealous said at the group’s […]
BOSTON – The National Urban League will host its annual conference this year in Boston, a city that carries a racially tense history stemming back to the 1970s, in which a court ruled that Black and white students would have to attend schools in different neighborhoods. The ugly race reality in Boston has stained its […]
A new study presented some disturbing, yet expected news about the sad state of economic affairs within the African American community. According to the study, the wealth gap between white and Black Americans has become the widest that it’s been in the last 25 years. As it stands, whites have a wealth level that is […]
WISCONSIN — Actor Morgan Freeman is livid with conservatives for using what he believes to be his voice in a campaign ad against a democratic opponent in the state of Wisconsin. Freeman made it clear that he did not authorize the use of his voice or its likeness for the video. Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice will sue Wells Fargo bank for preying on African American borrowers and giving them high cost sub prime loans. The Huffington Post reports: In an April 5 report to Congress, Perez’s unit said that some of these investigations would lead to lawsuits or settlements this year. “We’re a majority […]
FULLERTON, Calif — Fullerton Police officers tased and beat Kelly Thomas, a mentally unstable homeless man to death in an incident that was caught on video. KABC reports: “They kept beating him and Tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn’t even moving,” said Turgeon. “He had one arm in front of him like […]
WASHINGTON — Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin says breaking the debt stalemate is still possible if House Republicans drop “my way or the highway” thinking. The Illinois Democrat tells NBC’s “Today” show that attitude “just doesn’t work when you’ve got the economy at stake.” Durbin says he understands public frustration with Congress, conceding people […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Tyler Thompson is an unlikely star in the world of Chinese opera. The black teenager from Oakland has captivated audiences in the U.S. and China with his ability to sing pitch-perfect Mandarin and perform the ancient Chinese art form. “As soon as he opens his mouth and sings in Chinese, the Chinese […]
DETROIT — About 16,000 employees at five Detroit-based companies will be offered $4 million in loans and rent subsidies to move in or near the city’s downtown under an incentive program announced Monday aimed at rebuilding the city’s residential base. Officials with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Compuware Corp. ( CPWR – news – […]
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Frank Foster, a jazz saxophonist who played with the Count Basie Orchestra and composed the band’s hit, “Shiny Stockings,” died Tuesday. He was 82. Foster died Tuesday morning at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia, of complications from kidney failure, according to Cecilia Foster, his wife of 45 years. Foster was recognized in […]
MIAMI — A former Miami Beach police officer was charged Tuesday with four felonies in an alleged drunken all-terrain vehicle crash that seriously injured two people, one of several incidents within the last two years to stain the popular tourist destination’s police force. Derik Kuilan, who had been an officer for six years before he […]
