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The first African-American to own a NASCAR racing team will link up with the organization again in an executive role for one of its most important foundations: The NASCAR STEM Initiative. As part of a larger education program called the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge, the NASCAR STEM Initiative uses its powerful name brand (and extremely […]

NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]

Princeton professor Melissa Harris Perry wrote an op-ed on The Nation’s website today speaking about what she believes to be the “thin, personal” criticisms being thrown the way of President Obama from Professor Cornel West. Here is some of the piece: West’s sense of betrayal is clearly more personal than ideological. In Hedges’s article West […]

WASHINGTON D.C. – In a move to ridicule the right wing “birther” movement, the Barack Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign is selling t-shirts with “Made In The USA” on one side and Barack Obama’s birth certificate on the other. RELATED STORIES Colin Powell On Birthers: “Obama Blew Them Away” Obama Slams Media On Birther Issue: “No […]

NEW YORK- The NYPD is placing bags in public view full with items such as IPods and cash and then arresting people if they take the bag or its contents in an initiative called “Operation Lucky Bag”. The New York Daily News reports: Attorney Norman Siegel said people who are arrested through Operation Lucky Bag […]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas opened up to an audience of attorneys in his home state of Georgia on Tuesday, comparing critics of the bench to die-hard sports fans and wondering aloud whether they suffer from a “disease of illiteracy or laziness.” Thomas, who was born in nearby Pin Point, told the […]

Dominique Strauss Kahn may have more to worry about than just the sex assault charge a hotel maid levied on him. The West African maid who was allegedly assaulted by Kahn lived in an apartment in the Bronx rented exclusively to people with HIV/AIDS. It is unknown whether the maid has AIDS. The woman has […]

MEXICO — Mexican authorities said they detained more than 500 illegal immigrants from Central America and Asia who were crammed inside two tractor-trailers heading toward the United States. CNN reports: X-ray equipment detected the immigrants at checkpoints in the southern state of Chiapas, the state attorney general’s office said. The drivers of both trucks sped […]

MINNEAPOLIS –GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista were hit with glittery confetti by a protester Tuesday during the couple’s appearance at a book-signing.

NEW YORK–The mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lovechild has been identified as Mildred “Patty” Baena, a family housekeeper for the now estranged couple for nearly 20 years.

A recent article appearing in the New York Times focuses on the growing trend of weaves stolen from beauty shops across the country. Just last month, a pair of robbers stole close to $90,000 worth of weaves from a Chicago beauty shop. The robbery is just one of many which illustrates how quality hair weaves […]

CHICAGO, Il. — A homeless man in Chicago named Curtis Jackson has given  thousands of dollars he earns panhandling to a struggling single-mother who lives out of a hotel room with her 10-year-old son. Fox Chicago News reports: Sandy’s Good Samaritan is Curtis Jackson, who’s been homeless since 2004. He pays for Sandy’s hotel room […]