At this year’s NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, young professionals from across the nation convened in Hollywood, FL to discuss the next steps in empowering a new frontline of civil rights and social justice advocates. On Friday, the business session of our Summit began with a workshop on Digital Vision Boards led by Lindsey C. Holmes […]
Last Firday at the Anthology Theater in New York City, the controversial hip hop Mockumentary (Mock Documentary), “Monkey Gang: The Mockumentary” was shown in New York City to a packed house. The crowd laughed throughout the whole movie and got the message about the satire and parody of negativity in hip hop culture. After the […]
According to Yoruba mythology, when Sango discovers that, unbeknownst to him, a deity has been tortured and abused on his land, he becomes so outraged that he challenges Olodumare, the Supreme Deity, to a street fight. Well, right now, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump appear to be teaming up with the intention of becoming no […]
NEW YORK — Multiplatinum-selling rapper Ja Rule is set to go to prison, but he’s leaving fans with an album on the way.
NEW YORK — Former NYPD officer Jorge Arbaje-Diaz was sentenced to 20 years in jail for robbing drug dealers. Arbaje-Dia claimed he turned to robbing drug dealers to make mortgage payments on his new house. The New York Daily News reports: Defense lawyer Priya Chaudhry tried to win sympathy for his client in sentencing papers […]
An African-American soldier alleges that he experienced racial harassment while serving in Afghanistan. Slurs and a noose strung up outside his barracks were among the alleged forms of harassment he filed in a complaint this week. Specialist Adam Jarrell, the only African American in a unit of 216 soldiers of the New Mexico Army National […]
WASHINGTON– Tea Party front-runner Herman Cain said that African Americans are too poor to join the Tea Party, and that he refuses to remain on the “Democrat plantation,” according to TPMDC.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met with the Prince of Bahrain on Tuesday to urge the ruler to investigate alleged human-rights abuses by its security forces.
Rep. Anthony Weiner has been blasted for lying to his wife and having creepy sexual predilections. Many have been able to forgive his dishonesty, seeing sending kinky sext pics as treading a fine line, yet remaining on the right side of fidelity. And who hasn’t lied? To err is human, and Weiner’s crimes of the […]
