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The most recent trending topic on Twitter is #thingsblackfolksscaredof Several people on Twitter, including comedian, Chris Rock have used the trending topic to drop humor, stereotypes and the occasional piece of truth. NotChrisRock Chris Rock #ThingsBlackFolksScaredOf Belts. Slavery may be over but as kids we got beat more than the Cleveland Cavaliers KattWilllliams KattNOT Williams […]

WCHB – Bullfrog Films examines the case of Viola Liuzzo, the first white woman murdered in the civil rights movement. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist from Michigan and mother of five. Inspired by the efforts of African Americans in the South to obtain the right to vote, she left her home in Detroit […]

A postponement was announced for the case of the former bakery owner who was charged with masterminding the killing of Oakland Post editor, Chauncey Bailey. ALSO READ: Rihanna Reveals Sexual Fantasies May Be Linked To Childhood Abuse Bailey was writing an expose on the bakery’s financial problems and the Black Muslim group that operated it. […]

An Alabama woman will receive an apology by the state for its mishandling of her 1944 rape case. ALSO READ: Rihanna Reveals Sexual Fantasies May Be Linked To Childhood Abuse Almost 70 years ago, Recy Taylor (now 91-years-old) was raped by a gang of white men as she walked home from church. Two all-white and […]

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania– A trans-gender singer who is suspected in the death of a 20-year-old British woman after giving her butt injections, released a video on YouTube blasting the media. Also read: Lauryn Hill Pens Letter To ATL Fans After Arriving Late To Own Show

FLORIDA —  Governor Rick Scott wants welfare applicants to pay for a drug test before they are made eligible for assistance. ALSO READ: Alica Keys To Direct Lifetime Movie About Cancer In addition, the Governor wants to add a rule mandating that state employees submit drug tests at least four times a year. READ MORE […]

NEW YORK-Damian Furtch, 26, was brutally beaten outside a McDonalds in the West Village area of New York City. The New York Daily News reports: Furtch posted pictures of his injuries on Facebook and blunt words about his ordeal. “I thought I was safe in the city I loved but apparently wearing fluorescent colored clothing […]

Harlem, New York– President Obama held a fundraiser last night at a recently opened Harlem neighborhood restaurant, Red Rooster;  raising 1.5 million for the Democratic National Committee, and drawing crowds of many neighborhood supporters who hoped to catch a glimpse of the first African-American President. Among the 50 attendees of the $30,800-a-plate fundraiser, Charles Rangel […]

MICHIGAN — Security was stepped up at Michigan’s Port Huron Northern High School after a “hit-list” was found scrawled on the wall of a bathroom that used racial slurs against African-Americans and threatened to injure eight students. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, Diddy, and Snoop Dogg to make a song? Superintendent Ronald Wollen said an increased […]

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina  — There’s only one way in to Windy Ridge — across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It’s an unlikely place to come looking for the American Dream. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, […]

New York  — A video uploaded to Worldstarhiphop yesterday showed a teenage girl cutting a teenage boy in the face after he laughed when her wig fell off. Also Read: Rihanna wrongfully brags about her show being sold out The attack, which was shot from a phone camera, was in a Queens subway station. After […]

New York– A Northwestern University study found that young adults who are regularly involved in religious activities have  higher chances of becoming obese by middle age. Also read: Model & Single Mother Jourdan Dunn, 20, Reveals Son Has Sickle Cell The research found correlations between the frequency of church-going, and the participants Body Mass Index; […]