With reality TV shows like Basketball Wives and Bad Girls Club dominating prime time television, it appears a growing number of impressionable young women are beginning to emulate the drama-filled behavior being broadcast on TV. Yesterday, Atlanta’s V-103 invited local teachers to discuss the effects of reality TV on their students. According to the teachers […]
A promo of the film Hole in the Head is making its way around the Web. The promo features the late Vertus Hardiman, who, along with nine other children, was experimented on with radiation in 1927. The children all attended the same elementary school in Lyles Station, Ind., and were severely irradiated during a medical experiment […]
If you see the news today you should know that that we are still in the midst of an unemployment crisis. Even though things have improved since the height of the recent recession, unemployment levels still are at an all time high. The areas that appear to be the hardest hit are places with high […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police on Thursday began searching for the car belonging to actor John Showers. The body of the actor in the HBO series Treme was pulled from the Mississippi River on Wednesday after it was spotted by the captain of the riverboat Natchez. Showers played a police officer on the cable drama. […]
ABUJA, Nigeria — A car loaded with explosives crashed into the main United Nations’ building in Nigeria’s capital and exploded Friday, killing at least 18 people in one of the deadliest assaults on the international body in a decade. A radical Muslim sect blamed for a series of attacks in the country claimed responsibility for […]
CHICAGO-Tiawanda Moore was acquitted of a felony charge for recording two police officers who were trying to get her to drop a sexual harassment claim on her Blackberry. In Illinois, it is a felony to record police officers without their knowledge. The Chicago Tribune Reports: In the recording, which the one juror said was replayed […]
According to the United States surgeon general, Black women are harming their health avoiding physical activity because they’ve invested considerable amounts of time and money in their hair. Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, who is Black herself, knows the issues Black women have when it comes to “sweating out” their hair. “Oftentimes you get women saying, […]
A one-year-old girl fell victim to senseless violence Tuesday when she was shot in the head by a gunmen in the Southside of Chicago. The girl was walking with her aunt and the family dog, when two gunmen, between the ages of 16 and 19, targeted a man riding a bicycle, according to reports. After […]
Eddie Long’s two other accusers come forward to talk about what happened to them and tell why they are speaking up now. Last week Centrino came forward to talk about the abuse at Long’s hands. Now, Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande talked to local CBS TV to say they knew they were risking the money […]
Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson recently caused controversy when he told #1 draft pick Cam Newton that he is forbidden from having tattoos or earrings. “I said, ‘Do you have any tattoos?’” Richardson recalled of his first meeting with the Auburn product. “He said, ‘No, sir. I don’t have any.’ I said, ‘Do you have […]
Despite the fact that emails directly connect Indiana Republican Phil Hinkle to 18-year-old African American male prostitute, Kameryn Gibson, Hinkle claims that he isn’t gay. In the emails, which Hinkle admits sending, he arranged to pay up to $140 for a “real good time.” Hinkle has also admitted meeting Gibson who posted he was looking […]
A Washington D.C. pastor believes the gay rights movement is a battle the Black community should be fighting. According to Reverend Dennis W. Wiley, gay rights are inextricably linked to Black America’s struggle for civil rights. He added that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive he would be one of the LGBT movement’s […]
