By Keosha Johnson A Pressley is currently shaping history, and it’s not Elvis. SEE ALSO: Eddie Murphy Is Back With New Movie Who Is Steward Alexander? It’s Ayanna Pressley who was recently elected to the Boston City Council in its 101-year history. She won the seat in 2009 and has made waves in the local […]

For many centuries, the epitome of African American achievement has been to become the first black president. We once talked about it like it was the impossible dream, or the ultimate sign that we have arrived. Well, Barack Obama didn’t just talk about the dream, he went out and turned it into a reality. So, […]

Kevin Lewis started out at the White House as a press assistant, traveling all over the country and the world with President Obama. He was promoted to White House director of African American media, replacing Corey Ealons, who left in 2010 to take a position as senior vice president for a public affairs and communications […]

Retailer Target decided to yank a line of greeting cards that mentions the late Whitney Houston in a comment that is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek but is now viewed as distasteful, reports TMZ. RELATED: Cissy Calls On Authorities To Find Out Who Leaked Death Scene Photos The card line, which was available before the legendary songstress unexpectedly […]

WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama has released rules that get rid of the the controversial piece of the recent National Defense Authorization Act that allow American citizens to be indefinitely detained by the military. The indefinite detention part of the NDAA resulted in opposition from both the left and the right who where concerned about the rights […]

Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr. (pictured) is charged with making threats to President Barack Obama through Facebook, reports The Miami Herald. SEE ALSO: Mitt Romney’s Cultural Divide The 20-year-old man made the threats under the Facebook name “Jay Valor” and posted his comments during President Obama’s visit to the University of Miami last Thursday. Serrapio’s first posting was entered […]

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is now stepping down as president of Bennett College.  The historically Black all-women’s college is losing one of the nation’s most-respected economists, writers, and leaders, but the move appears to be the right one for Dr. Malveaux. SEE ALSO: The Grio’s 100: Slideshow Of Top 10 African Americans In Politics “Five years […]

PHOENIX-Ben Patrick, who played tight end for the Arizona Cardinals from 2007 to 2010, rescued a group of people trapped in a van that flipped over in Phoenix, Arizona. Patrick was driving on the highway when he noticed the van laying on its side and pulled over. After smelling gas, he began pulling people out […]

METHUEN, Mass. — School officials in a Massachusetts town are apologizing for sending home a lunch menu that listed KKK Chicken Tenders as an option. SEE ALSO: Eddie Murphy Is Back With New Movie About 6,500 students in four Methuen (muh-THOO’-in) schools went home with new menus Tuesday, a day after the original one mistakenly […]

WASHINGTON  — Richard Nixon threw a huge gala for former Vietnam POWs. Harry Truman cheered at multiple parades honoring veterans of World War II. Andrew Johnson presided over the pageantry of a two-day review of Union troops at the end of the Civil War. SEE ALSO: How The Right Invented “Barack X” Now President Barack […]