WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama directed the government Friday to set the first-ever mileage and pollution limits for big trucks and to tighten rules for future cars and SUVs, setting the nation’s sights on vehicles that run on half the fuel they now use and give off half the pollution.
Julianna Farrait, the 70-year old spouse of the infamous heroine dealer Frank Lucas, was recently arrested in Puerto Rico. Authorities found her trying to sell 2 kilograms (4 pounds) of cocaine at a hotel. She is being charged with conspiracy to violate narcotics law and has not yet entered a plea. Frank Lucas was made […]
From TheLoop21.com: Last year, BET Networks and Johnson & Johnson made a commitment to support emerging African-American filmmakers through the BET original series and short film competition Lens on Talent.
Our friends at the White House Flickr posted all-new, behind-the-scenes photos from the State Dinner. Check out the decor, the dinner discussions and the president’s dancing face.
From TheRoot.com: Washington D.C.’s Calvin Coolidge High School needed a new varsity head football coach.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Who is discriminated against in America? More Americans say Hispanics than blacks or women — and it is far from just Hispanics who feel that way.
From TheGrio.com: With five Grammys to his credit, Usher is accustomed to the spotlight. Usher Raymond IV released his first album when he was just fourteen years old. And now, at age 31, his third consecutive album recently debuted at the top of the billboard charts.
From HipHopWired.com: A convicted pimp in New Jersey who identifies himself as “Prince” has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for running a human trafficking and prostitution ring.
Today, and every Friday, NewsOne editor Ashton Lattimore joins the Rev. Al Sharpton on his radio show, “Keeping It Real,” for the NewsOne news hour.
I just read a pilot study that CNN released on the racial attitudes of children. And nearly 60 years after the watershed Brown v. Board of Education case – in which the Supreme Court invalidated Jim Crow school segregation – it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
