From NYDailyNews.com: Police Officer James Atkins disobeyed a direct order from his sergeant – and it saved her life.

From HuffingtonPost.com: Former White House green jobs czar Van Jones — best known, perhaps, for his messy departure from the Obama administration — urged a room full of student progressive activists on Wednesday to turn off “the little idiot box” [cable news] that was trying to “depress them” and to ignore the “fearmongers” who peddle […]

From HuffingtonPost.com: The managing director of a hedge fund group accused of being a $378 million Ponzi scheme, ran into the ocean Saturday morning and shot himself as Spanish authorities tried to take him into custody.

The study found that African-Americans and Latinos continue to be more likely to own cellphones than whites and more likely to use their phones for a greater range of activities.

Eastpointe, MI-Imagine going out to get your mail and finding a letter telling you to move out of the neighborhood or be killed. That’s what happened to several Eastpointe, Michigan families.

From DailyPress.com: Hampton University has just launched a virtual campus that offers a myriad of associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees.

CNN Contributor Roland Martin was on hand to talk with the celebrities as they arrived on the red carpet for the McDonald’s 365Black Awards ceremony at Essence Music Festival. The annual event was hosted by Tom Joyner, nationally syndicated radio personality and one of the first recipients of the 365Black Award, along with Sherri Shepherd, […]

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking "repair of my people from the damage" he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries.

From The Urban Daily: It’s not “conscious” hip-hop, it’s reality based music. Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek took on this topic before the oil spill in the gulf but this video, couldn’t be more timely.