Egypt — Reports are emerging out of Egypt that President Mubarak has officially stepped down after an 18-day wave of protests. Vice President Omar Suleiman broke the news this morning as several thousand protesters broke out into cheers and tears savoring the news. Mubarak has turned over all power to the military, according to Suleiman. […]
PHILADELPHIA-Claudia Aderotimi, an English woman who had traveled to Philadelphia, to get implants in her behind to help her career as a dancer and video girl for hip-hop videos, died after the illegal operation. The UK Daily News reports: Claudia Aderotimi, 20, believed a ‘bigger booty’ would help in her quest to appear in more […]
New York — Republican Rep. Christopher Lee of New York resigned his House seat Wednesday following a report that the married congressman had tried to meet a woman on Craigslist. “It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of Western New York,” said a statement by Lee posted on his website. “I regret […]
NEW YORK-Rep. Christopher Lee a married Republican Congressman from New York State has had racy pictures and texts that he sent to woman on Craiglist revealed. You can read all about it at Gawker and see other photos. In the pictures, Lee appears in his bathroom taking a pictures with a cell phone camera making […]
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio- Jason Popp, the coach of the Richmond Heights Boys Varsity Basketball has come under fire for racist comments and harassment. According to documents, Popp would use racial slurs against his players and insult them for being poor. Among the things he said were “I”m going to need you to play like n—-ers, […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — An African-American lawmaker in South Carolina said Tuesday that stricter illegal immigration laws would hurt the state because blacks and whites don’t work as hard as Hispanics.
DELANO — A California man attending a cockfight has died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb. The Kern County coroner says 35-year-old Jose Luis Ochoa was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he suffered the injury in neighboring Tulare County […]
New York — Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry who is in the middle of a custody fight with her ex-husband Gabriel Aubry, recently told Ebony Magazine that her daughter is Black because of the “one-drop rule.” “I feel like she’s black,” the actress told the magazine. “I’m black and I’m her mother, and I […]
Lithonia, GA– A shooting took place on the parking lot of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, GA last Saturday.
Radio One Founder Cathy Hughes spoke candidly about the images of Black women in film at the TV One Upfront last week.
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have jailed a 17-year-old Ypsilanti High School student they say repeatedly stabbed a classmate with whom he’d had sex after she told him she may be pregnant. The attack happened Tuesday on the school grounds in Washtenaw County’s Ypsilanti Township, west of Ypsilanti. The 17-year-old girl was in intensive […]
New York Fire Department electrician, Gregory Seabrook, found a noose in his locker after suing the FDNY for racial discrimination. The New York Daily News reports: Gregory Seabrook, an FDNY communications electrician for nearly 20 years, found the noose Thursday at the FDNY facility at 87 Union St. in Brooklyn, his lawyers said yesterday. “There’s […]
