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TEXAS– A local Texas reporter who interrupted President Obama during an interview received kind words of advice from the Commander in Chief: “Let Me Finish My Answers’ Next Time”

BROOKLYN, NY-The NYPD has released a video of 18-year-old Andre Pitts being shot by an unknown assailant in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The New York Daily News reports: In the security video footage, the suspect can be seen following his victim out of an elevator and firing his gun several times. His face is clearly visible on […]

NEW YORK-According to a recent study by the Nielson, which provides rating for TV, Black people watch two hours more TV a day than the national average of five hours and eleven minutes, amounting to 40% more than the national average. The report, which studied adults ages 18-49, also looked at programming patterns. It found […]

NEW YORK–   Few African Americans are saving money for retirement, according to a new study released by Prudential Financial.

WASHINGTON — An air traffic controller has been suspended for watching a movie when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft, deepening the Federal Aviation Administration’s embarrassment following at least five cases of controllers sleeping on the job.

IRVINE, Calif. — A Southern California GOP official who sent out an e-mail picturing President Barack Obama’s face on the body of a baby chimpanzee issued an apology late Monday after a weekend of criticism that ended with a strongly worded public rebuke from the local Republican Party chairman, who also called for an ethics […]

NEW YORK– The NAACP criticized the United States in a report recently saying that prison funding is at a higher priority than school funding.

Miami — Former 2 Live Crew frontman, Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, officially filed paperwork this week to run for Mayor of Miami-Dade County. Many reporters in Miami believed the former musician wasn’t serious about his run. Apparently, he is. “I’m dead serious,” Luke said. “That’s a question [they have] been asking me since I put […]

Last week, the sad case of Lashanda Armstrong emerged. Armstrong drove her and her three children into the Hudson River. They all died. While many can’t believe a mother would such a thing, Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press challenged that notion by examining just how many women kill their children in the United States. […]

COMPTON, CA-Adams funeral parlor in Compton has added a new feature to allow people to view the recently deceased from the comforts of their own car. Owner Peggy Scott Adams to the The L.A. Times: “You can come by after work, you don’t need to deal with parking, you can sign the book outside and […]

Contributing Editor to TheRoot and former BET anchor Jacque Reid tackled the issue of domestic violence and how signs of it can appear on the first date. She spoke about how it could even rear its ugly head on a first date in the physical form. Reid takes you through her personal experience and how […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her was charged Monday with murder in the death of her boyfriend.