PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. SEE ALSO: More Elevator Terror Stories In a “special broadcast” Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a “great […]
Reacting to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s call on Thursday for the immediate suspension of Florida A&M University (FAMU) President Dr. James Ammons in the wake of the hazing death of student Robert Champion, FAMU students organized a march to the Governor’s Mansion. FAMU students used Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media to spread […]
“You can tell a Morehouse Man, but you can’t tell him much,” is one of the main reasons why the Morehouse brand currently carries a social stigma. This phrase has generated the belief that the Morehouse community is full of arrogant and conceited black men who have lost touch with those who look like them. […]
Morgan State University (MSU), the largest HBCU in the state of Maryland — known for its lavish homecomings, prominent scholars, and even an occasional late night party — also has a rich legacy in the Civil Rights Movement. At this year’s convocation and other campus events, MSU honored the legacy of hundreds of former Morgan […]
MSNBC host Al Sharpton and iconic boxing promoter Don King will give away hundreds of turkeys in Harlem, Queens, and other parts of the City on Monday. It all takes place at the National Action Network 106 West 145th Streetin New York, Monday, December 19, 2011 1:00 p.m. In addition to giving away turkeys at NAN’s […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police say a man on the run for a litany of crimes was spotted chaperoning his daughter’s elementary school field trip. SEE ALSO: Sandusky Accuser: I SAW Sex Abuse Happening Donald Vasser was featured on “Washington’s Most Wanted,” a local law enforcement show in the style of “America’s Most Wanted.” It […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A man smelling of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman hosed down with an accelerant and set ablaze in the elevator of her apartment building, police said Sunday. RELATED: More Elevator Terror Stories The 47-year-old man, who hasn’t been charged, said […]
When I went to the screening of Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X , Rodney King was sitting in the front row and I was seated next to Alice Walker. At that time he was the proof of what Black men had been saying for so long: The police are trying to kill us unjustly and […]
PRAGUE (AP) — Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule. Shy and bookish, with a wispy mustache and unkempt hair, the dissident playwright was an unlikely hero of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 […]
Pioneer female rapper Karryl Smith aka “Special One” of the west coast rap duo Conscious Daughters was laid to rest today in Oakland, California. She died on December 10th from unknown causes. RELATED: Round Up Of Gene Marks “Poor Black Kid” Critiques Special One and her rap partner Carla Green aka CMG burst onto the […]
