Department of education officials in New York are investigating a Bronx high school accused of giving students credit for courses they never took. See also:Â Surge In Free School Lunches Reflects Economic Crisis According to the New York Daily News, Jane Addams High School principal Sharron Smalls is under investigation for alledgedly awarding bogus credits to […]
GOP Presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich has attacked President Barack Obama’s past as a community organizer by claiming that Obama believes in “Saul Alinsky Radicalism.” Saul Alinsky was an author and community activist who worked in the same impoverished neighborhoods in Chicago that Obama did and authored the book, “Rules For Radicals” and has become a […]
In 2006 William Brawner revealed in a magazine article that he had AIDS. The news shocked his friend and former Howard University classmates. Brawner was somewhat of a ladies man and was so in denial of his status that he often practiced unprotected sex. SEE ALSO: World Records Broken In 2011 Now he is on […]
PARIS (AP) — A new book purports to give Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s version of events of what happened in that New York hotel suite. See also:Â Dominique Strauss-Kahn Porn Film: Sexual Assault Case To Be Made Into Porn In “DSK Affairs: The Second Inquiry,” Strauss-Kahn’s biographer says when a hotel maid locked eyes with the then head […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has been charged with four crimes against humanity and taken into custody by the International Criminal Court. He is the first former head of state charged by the court since it was established in 2002. A filing posted on the court’s website early Wednesday says […]
HARTFORD, Conn. – A jogger who saved a suicidal teenager from drowning herself in a Connecticut lake was a convicted child molester on the lam from Georgia for six years, police said Wednesday. Michael Rogers, 49, said shortly after the rescue that he could not bear to walk away and have the girl’s death on […]
After facing some criticism for being involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement despite his capitalist credentials, including his debit card, The Rush Card, Russell Simmons has defended himself in an open letter to The Huffington Post. Simmons had been criticized by NewsOne blogger, Ryan Mack who called him “officially part of the 1%” and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the spread of the disease. Standard practice has been to have patients put […]
It was Adele’s year, and when the Grammy Awards are revealed next February, it very well may be her night. But on Wednesday night, the British songstress shared in the Grammy nominations glory. While she was nominated for six trophies, including album of the year for “21” and record and song of the year for […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — He’s plotting an aggressive campaign schedule across several states, but Herman Cain has begun to outline a possible exit strategy from the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The former business executive, facing a woman’s allegation of a 13-year extramarital affair, says a heavy emotional toll on his family – particularly […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Blending governing with re-election politics, President Barack Obama roused a cheering northeast Pennsylvania crowd Wednesday as he warned of a “massive blow to the economy” if Republicans block a payroll tax extension. But hours later, addressing donors in New York, he toned his rhetoric down and declared progress was possible. Obama […]
