The War on Poverty is still being fought 50 years later, and we have yet to make any real strides on the majority of Americans being able to live above the poverty line. Topics of whether the minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour and how to help Americans keep up with the […]
Target continues to work on rectifying 110 million customers’ credit card information being stolen during the holiday shopping season. High-end retailer Neiman Marcus also revealed that a breach of credit card data also occurred at their stores recently. Target is offering all of their customers a year of free credit monitoring as a result of […]
Losing weight can be a struggle for some, but Eric and Maleka Beal prove that when you make smarter choices, it can be easier than you think. The Beals, of Better Choices, lost 288 pounds by choosing to focus on little changes that made big differences such as drinking more water to take off the […]
Kanye West allegedly got in to a fight with a teenage at a Los Angeles chiropractor’s office, after the man called him the N-word and Kim Kardashian a “N*gger Lover,” TMZ reports. Kanye and Kim were at a Beverly Hills medical building, when they were surrounded by photographers. In the middle of all of this, […]
A 63-year-old Louisiana grandmother prayed to God as she shot down the teenage home invader who dared to rob her for the second time in a month, KSLA 12 reports. Elzie Pipkins told the news station that the boy, 16-year old Devon Antonio White, forced himself inside of her Shreveport home in December demanding cash […]
Racism may cause accelerated aging in Black males, according to a recent study at the University Of Maryland. RELATED: 50 Percent Of Black Men Arrested By Age 23? Not So Fast Researchers reportedly found advanced cellular aging in Black men who experienced high amounts of racial discrimination and held self-hatred attitudes. “We examined a biomarker […]
When Raeana Roberson (pictured) appeared for jury duty at the Queens, N. Y., county courthouse on Monday, she was taken aback when she saw “Negro” as one of the options in the self-identifier portion of a court document she filled out, according to The Huffington Post. Roberson, who is a teacher, was angered by the […]
“Saturday Night Live” writer Seth Myers has tapped Chicago’s Amber Ruffin (pictured) for the writing staff on his upcoming “Late Night With Seth Myers” talk show, according to Jezebel. SEE ALSO: Doctors Say Cutting Food Stamps Could Backfire With the official announcement last Wednesday, Ruffin makes history as the first woman of color to write for […]
The curious death of Georgia teen Kendrick Johnson (pictured below) remains one of the most-baffling cases to date. On January 11, 2013, the 17-year-old Lowndes High School student’s body was found rolled in a wrestling mat inside the school’s gymnasium. Despite a shoddy investigation by local authorities and growing evidence that surveillance video may have […]
CeCe McDonald (pictured right) was released from a men’s Minnesota prison this morning after serving 19 months of her 41-month sentence, BuzzFeed reports. McDonald, a transgerder woman who was convicted of for fatally stabbing a man who attacked her during a hate crime in Minneapolis on the night of June 5, 2011, will be supervised […]
A video posted on LiveLeak shows a little girl being taken by surprise when her father takes her to visit his identical brother for the first time. When the girl’s father introduces her to her uncle, you could tell that she was truly confused. “There’s two of us,” her father says in the video. The […]