Houston — HIV prevention is one step closer as microbicide researchers have created a prevention method that women can use on their own terms. For close to 15 years, scientists have tried out different forms of microbicides. These tests have failed to stop HIV transmission. But at last summer’s International AIDS Conference, South African researchers […]
Boston — Former Victoria Secret Angel and supermodel Tyra Banks is heading off to school–at Harvard University. The 37 year-old model turned entrepreneur is enrolled in the Harvard Business School and is taking an executive education course geared towards entrepreneurs. According to reports from The Boston Herald, Banks has been seen all around Boston with […]
HOUSTON-A recently released hospital surveillance video shows police beating Henry Madge, while he was handcuffed. The video is two years old but Madge came forward after the recent beating of the teenage boy in Houston was caught on camera. RELATED STORIES Video Released Of Houston Police Brutally Beating 16-Year-Old Pace Players Were Arrested & Stun-Gunned […]
ATLANTA-While discussing Lindey Lohan’s recent jewelry theft, pundit, Nancy Grace made a point that shows the inequality of our justice system in relation to Lindsay Lohan’s jewelry theft charges, she said: Let’s just say you send a black girl into that same jewelry story, or an educated person or a poor person, they come away […]
Egypt — President Obama spoke on the news of President Mubarak stepping down and said there are “very few minents in our lives where we have the priviledge to witness history taking shape. This is one of those moments.” Mubarak responded to the Egyptian people’s hunger for change by stepping down. But this is the […]
It was 1997 when Love Jones premiered starring budding stars Larenz Tate and Nia Long, and almost 15 years later we’re still jonesin’ for the movie that came to be a definitive portrait of black love. Â Written and directed by Theodore Witcher, Love Jones was the first in a series of films in the late […]
WASHINGTON D.C.-Yesha Callahan has been revealed as the woman who GOP congressman, Christopher Lee sent nasty pictures to via CraigsList. Callahan is a professional African American single mother who lives in Washington D.C. who never met Lee after receiving his photos. Callahan had previously given an interview to TheLoop21.com RELATED STORIES GOP Congressman’s Racy Pics […]
San Francisco — Federal prosecutors have cut the number of felony charges Barry Bonds faces from 11 to five. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors filed their third revised indictment against Bonds, who is scheduled to stand trial March 21. In the new indictment, they reduced from nine to three the number of charges alleging […]
New York — A new report released Thursday indicated that close to 90 percent of New Yorkers arrested for pot last year were Black and Latino. More New Yorkers as a whole are being busted for marijuana, according to a new report released Thursday. The NYPD arrested 50,383 people for carrying pot in 2010 – […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A producer of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” reality series is listed in an application seeking film production tax credits from the state.
Florida –A Miami bus driver who left the scene of an accident last year was arrested Thursday, police said. Goddess Newbold-Hayes, 41, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving a fatality, and failure to render aide in the Nov. 27 accident that killed 51-year-old Tomislov Pepi Ritoper. According to police, Newbold-Hayes was […]
San Diego– Doris Payne, an 80-year-old jewel thief was sentenced Wednesday to serve 5 years in prison. Payne admits that she is a career thief and traveled the world plying her craft. She has never used a gun or lifted a finger in violence, but still slips out of jewelry stores with her loot, according […]
