From TheState.com: Authorities have found the body of 2-year-old Rodricus Fred Williams in a trash can in rural Orangeburg County, sources say.
From TheRoot.com: The trailer for the French film My Baby Is Black (Les Lâches Vivent D’espoir), originally released in 1961, is making its rounds on the web again.
From TheGrio.com: If you know anything about gospel music the name Tonex will strike a chord. In 2004 he took the gospel world by storm when he released his Grammy nominated album Out The Box. Not only was it number one on the gospel charts, it also made a mark on the Top R&B charts.
From BostonGlobe.com: Every night at bedtime, former Celtic Ray Williams locks the doors of his home: a broken-down 1992 Buick, rusting on a back street where he ran out of everything.
From Bloomberg.com: The music industry has long sold black culture to white Americans. Now McDonald’s Corp. is doing much the same. It’s taking cues from blacks, Hispanics and Asians to develop menus and advertising, in an effort to encourage middle-class whites to buy smoothies and snack wraps as avidly as they consume hip-hop and rock […]
Nominations for the 2010 Primetime Emmys were announced this morning, and the list of nominees is sorely lacking in racial diversity. Only one Black actor was nominated in the major categories: Andre Braugher received a Best Supporting Actor nod for his portrayal of Owen Thoreau Jr. TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age.”
From RadarOnline.com: Mel Gibson has been caught on tape making ANOTHER bigoted remark, this time against Latinos, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
From WashingtonPost.com: If this scenario, starring one Mary J. Blige, seemed somewhat improbable early Tuesday, by the end of the day it appeared — well, who knows, maybe possible, someday. But not this year.
From NYTimes.com: A former Justice Department lawyer hired during the Bush administration alleged on Tuesday that the department scaled down a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party last year because his former colleagues do not want to protect white people’s civil rights.
LOS ANGELES – A former police mechanic suspected of killing 10 people and stumping detectives for more than two decades was finally arrested Wednesday after police used DNA from his son to track him down.
i tried to play this one right down the middle but i'm sure i'll be accused of being both anti-Semite AND an enemy of a Free Palestine.