Des Moines police are investigating a string of attacks centered around the Iowa State Fair, and say they may be racially motivated.
The Army is ending a program that helped nearly 3,000 high school dropouts earn high school equivalency certificates and become soldiers.
A Queens man was sentenced to 37 months in prison Wednesday for his role in a counterfeiting scheme that included trafficking more than one million fake Trojan condoms.
A 4-year-old child may now have a sexually transmitted disease because of a used condom he found in an Atlanta hotel room.
An NYPD cop whose wife called 911 for help against a gang of thugs says he was brutally beaten by baton-wielding fellow officers who stormed his Queens home.
President Obama's approval rating may be on the decline, but that hasn't diminished his star power as fundraiser-in-chief. In fact, demand for the president has grown in what will be a contentious mid-term election, with Republicans planning to sweep Congress.
Today at 6pm at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center (165 W. 65th St.) the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement in conjunction with ImageNation will host the world premiere of the film “Black August: A Hip-Hop Documentary Concert,”directed by dream hampton. The night kicks off with a performance by Ghanian emcee Blitz the Ambassador and […]
Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republican National Committee between 2005 and 2007, has come out in an interview with the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder: Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become […]
Black Enterprise, the nation’s premier business and wealth building resource for African Americans, announced that a digital edition of the publication designed exclusively for the Apple iPad will be now available for download. The release makes Black Enterprise the first African American-owned and operated magazine to provide its content through the iPad app.
These are the results of the recent poll conducted on BlackPlanet.com centering around the mosque controversy and President Obama?
A status update nobody wants to see: Three Colombian teenagers have been killed after their names appeared, along with 97 others, on a multipart “hit list” posted on Facebook, according to multiple international reports.
Like a clear majority of Americans, I too oppose the building of the proposed Cordoba Mosque near the former World Trade Center in New York City.