From AtlantaPost.com: When the time comes for selecting which higher education institution to attend, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are often forgotten, ignored, or viewed as second-rate in comparison with more traditional schools. Parents and prospective students alike are sometimes reluctant to consider these colleges, which they may view as homogeneous, rigid, and dogmatic. […]
From BVBlackSpin.com: Police have charged the father of a 2-year-old boy and his girlfriend with homicide after finding the boy’s body buried under 400 pounds of concrete.
TRENTON, Maine — President Barack Obama brought his family to the coast of Maine Friday for a biking and hiking getaway made even sweeter by a double helping of good news from Congress and the Gulf of Mexico.
From NYDailyNews.com: Gov. Paterson Friday signed into law the controversial stop and frisk legislation that forces the NYPD to delete the names of people questioned – but not arrested – from its electronic database.
From BVonMoney.com: BP is getting criticism from civil rights leaders about African Americans being left out of the highly profitable oil clean up process. According to a recent investigation by the NAACP, minority contractors are not being given an opportunity to make money by cleaning up the spill that has destroyed the livelihoods of so […]
From SFGate.com: Rap superstar Lil Wayne is expected to walk free from jail in November after serving eight months of his yearlong sentence.
While Glenn Beck continues to pathetically assert that he is a modern-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his listeners and viewers are the rightful heirs to the civil rights movement he spearheaded, it may catch some by surprise that tea party leaders claim their movement is about advancing the civil rights of Americans. During […]
From NYTimes.com: Vonetta McGee, a film and television actress originally known for blaxploitation pictures like “Blacula,” “Hammer” and “Shaft in Africa,” died on July 9 in Berkeley, Calif. She was 65 and a Berkeley resident.
VH1’s new dating reality show The Ultimate Catch premiered this week with much anticipation by many viewers. The show’s bachelor and NFL superstar, Chad Ochocinco, recently outraged many when an insider leaked information revealing Ochocinco did not want Black women on his dating show.
From CNN.com: Billionaire businessman Bob Johnson has chosen Liberia for his latest venture, the country’s first top class hotel.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel is again calling for a military draft to highlight the fact that relatively few families are bearing a disproportionate burden in fighting the nation’s wars.