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Jesse Jackson, Sr. is planning to hold New York City’s new mayor Bill de Blasio to his campaign promise of a fairer city. It was reported that the civil rights icon met Thursday with de Blasio regarding the mayor’s attendance at his 17th Annual Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit, to be held Feb. […]

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HIV is a crisis in African-American communities that continues to threaten the health and well-being of Black men and women across the United States. Further, the community faces the most severe burden of HIV and AIDS than any racial/ethnic group in the nation. As a grim reminder of these unvarnished facts, Feb. 7 marks the […]

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Beverly Hills, Calif. – Leaders from throughout southern California joined the Rev. Al Sharpton as the National Action Network (NAN) kicked off Black History Month with its annual awards luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The sold-out event attracted luminaries from a wide cross section of industries and featured speeches from NAN’s […]

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NEWPORT, Tenn. – An East Tennessee magistrate has been replaced months after ordering a baby’s name changed from Messiah to Martin because she believes Messiah is a title held only by Jesus Christ. Lu Ann Ballew (pictured) was a child support magistrate, serving at the pleasure of the chief judge of Tennessee’s fourth judicial district. […]

UPDATE: 2/8/14, 5:41 p.m.: The proposed “Celebrity Boxing Match” between George Zimmerman and DMX set to take place in March has been cancelled. Get the details here. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Since news broke that a Celebrity Boxing Match between George Zimmerman and DMX was set for March 15, social media went ablaze with a myriad of emotions. […]

Live Well

Couples looking to sustain a healthful romantic relationship should avoid Facebook, because spending excessive time on Facebook may cause negative interpersonal relationship outcomes, according to a report in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. SEE ALSO: LAPD Officers Violated Policy In Manhunt “The results indicate that a high level of Facebook usage is associated with negative […]

Ebony Nettles-Bey (pictured) was a star basketball player at Madison West High School in Madison, Wis., where she earned first team all-conference honors after her sophomore year. She was so impressive that the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offered her a full basketball scholarship. Ebony, 16, ended up moving to Verona, just ten miles southwest of downtown […]

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UPDATE: 2/5/2014, 5:20 EST: Reverend Al Sharpton released a statement on the announced Zimmerman vs DMX boxing match: “We must be very careful not to glorify or in any way sidestep the implications of making someone whose only claim to fame was killing an unarmed young man named Trayvon Martin into a cultural celebrity or […]

No matter how high Black women ascend in their professions, they will often be critiqued on how they style their hair. Pam Oliver, one of the best sideline reporters in all of sports, knows this all too well. People have always had something to say about Oliver’s hair–there are at least three Twitter pages devoted […]

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George Zimmerman is trolling us all. The former neighborhood watchman who was found not guilty of murder in July after he gunned down unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, wants to fight Kanye West in a boxing match because he has a reputation of bullying “defenseless” people, reports The Huffington Post. Read more […]

Crime

The trial for Michael Dunn, 47, the Florida man accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old Jordan Davis during an argument because the unarmed teen’s music was “too loud,” finally began Monday and, according to his attorneys, the gunman plans on using the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law as his defense, reports Time Magazine. RELATED:  Family And […]