DALLAS — NFL Hall of Famer, Michael Irvin, is on the cover of LGBT magazine “Out” to promote equality for homosexuals. Irvin is also interviewed in the magazine and discusses his gay brother who died. He also speaks about his support for gay marriage. ESPN reports: “I don’t see how any African-American, with any inkling […]
Even 20 years later, the first minute of Boyz n the Hood, the near-iconic movie about young black men struggling to survive the concrete jungle of South Central Los Angeles, can be a jarring experience. There are no pictures, just sounds and words thrust onto a pitch black screen that are symbolic of the bleakness […]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-One of Afghanistan’s most powerful figures, a half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, was shot and killed at his home on Tuesday. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the so-called “King of Kandahar,” was gunned down by one of his own body guards, according to multiple reports. “I confirm that Ahmed Wali was killed inside his house,” a […]
NEW YORK — Frank DeTucci, a 70-year-old prison chaplain at the Queensboro Correctional Facility has admitted to paying an inmate to let him perform oral sex on him. The New York Daily News reports: When questioned, DeTucci admitted that on July 5 he paid the same inmate $120 and $150 on two separate occasions to […]
WEST HARTFORD — Two dancers for rapper Lil Wayne, Della Hamby and Jennifer Slaughter, have been charged with beating up a waitress at a P.F. Chang’s in West Hartford, Connecticut over an argument about splitting the check. The Hartford Courant reports: The women paid and left, but they later returned to retrieve a cell phone […]
SANFORD, Fla. — A central Florida woman says she’s having numerous financial troubles because of a bank error that caused Chase Bank USA to declare her dead last November. Wrenella Pierre has filed a lawsuit and Chase officials said Monday they’re investigating how the mistake happened. When Pierre and her husband built their home in […]
ATLANTA — The fallout from the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal continued to spread as four area superintendents were replaced and a school district in Texas put the superintendent it recently hired from Georgia on paid leave. Interim Superintendent Erroll Davis replaced the four superintendents late Monday, hours before trustees of the DeSoto Independent School […]
