WASHINGTON — The federal government is escalating security around the country in preparation for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and conducting confidential briefings with state and local law enforcement organizations. But officials say there is no specific indication that a terror plot against the U.S. is under way. Americans can expect more security […]

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck tackled a particularly sticky issue when it comes to race. How does it make any sort of sense, he wanted to know, to refer to all Black persons as “African American,” particularly when so many Black individuals don’t live in the U.S.? Beck notes that, in South Africa, […]

MIAMI — African American congressman Andre Carson from Indiana had harsh words for the Tea Party at a recent Congressional Black Caucus event in Miami. He compared the Tea Party movement to the efforts of Jim Crow and directly addressed members of congress affiliated with the movement. The Huffington Post reports: “This is the effort […]

Rabbi Capers Funnye, a prominent African-American rabbi from Chicago and cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, wants to diversify the Jewish faith. “The color of a person’s skin should not matter. It is what is in that person’s heart and in that person’s soul that matters,” he told a Beverly Hills congregation on Friday. A staunch […]

NEW YORK— 15 Muslims were arrested after a fight broke out at an amusement park in Westchester County after they were told they’d be denied access to rides over their religious clothing. More than 3,000 Muslims came to Rye Playland to celebrate the end of Ramadan. 60 police were called after clashes between Playland staff […]

MEMPHIS — A high school counselor named Cinnamon Davis was charged with having sex with a high school student after there were reports that she spent a weekend with a 17-year-old male student. After the student’s mother became concerned that she had not seen him for a weekend and he hadn’t called, he told her […]

It’s becoming increasingly difficult for parents and students to pay for college tuition. If it wasn’t for Pell Grants, Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) and the Education Opportunity Fund (EOF), 24-year-old Vanessa Denis would have graduated from Montclair State University with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. “My high school was a college prep school […]

President Obama said during a Tuesday radio show that hiring discrimination against the jobless “makes absolutely no sense” and that he supports legislation to ban the practice. Sybil Wilkes, a co-host of the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” asked the president about long-term unemployment and businesses that tell applicants, “If you’re unemployed, we don’t want to […]

Rev. Jesse Jackson recently wrote an opinion piece for the Huffington Post speaking about Hurricane Irene and how he believes conservatives only hate government until they need it. Check out a few excerpts below. Irene has hit, leaving destruction in its wake. We could track Irene and prepare for it; we could not stop it. […]

I laughed when comedian Katt Williams began flipping out and insulting a Mexican (or Mexican-American) heckler for over 7 straight minutes on video this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona. Some of the stuff was funny. Some of it—like Mr. Williams said “we were slaves, b*tch. Ya’ll just work like that at the landscapers”—was objectionable. Initially, […]

Berkshire Hathaway, the  eighth-largest public company in the world owned by billionaire Warren Buffet is behind on its taxes, the New York post reports. According to the Post, Berkshire Hathaway owes back taxes from as far back as 2002. The news comes just weeks after Buffet wrote an in-depth editorial chiding the low tax rates […]

Jennifer O’Brien, a teacher in Paterson, New Jersey is in serious trouble after remarks she made about her first graders on Facebook.  The teacher, who’d grown frustrated with her class, went to Facebook to state that some of her students were “future criminals.” The bulk of O’Brien’s students are Black and hispanic. During her peculiar […]