NYU professor and renowned film director Spike Lee added a considerable amount of fuel to the Trayvon Martin bonfire last week by tweeting the residential address of a certain George Zimmerman to his quarter-million followers. The highly questionable ...
Posted Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 2:01PM
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ATLANTA – Basketball legend Magic Johnson has opened an education center in downtown Atlanta for high school dropouts.
The Magic Johnson Bridgescape center helps give those who have left school, or are at risk of dropping out, the opportunity to e ...
Posted Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 1:54PM
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A man was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning as he walked along a New Cassel street, Nassau County police said.
The victim, 58, whom police did not identify, was walking near Roman Avenue and Brook Street at 4:40 a.m. when an unknown man pointe ...
Posted Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 1:52PM
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In America, data consistently shows that black women experience the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality compared to other ethnicities.
An estimated 2 maternal deaths occur daily among black women in America, according to an Amnesty Inte ...
Posted Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 1:47PM
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Social scientists explain the causes of racism primarily as due to environmental factors, ignorance and feelings of superiority. While these reasons may be true in one respect, they satisfy neither the intellect nor the heart. Many clues to racism ca ...
Posted Saturday, September 22nd 2012 at 5:24PM
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This week President Barack Obama brought a little bit of black history to America's capital city. The commander-in-chief signed into law H.R. 6336, which directs the Congressional Joint Committee on the Library to accept a statue of Frederick Douglas ...
Posted Saturday, September 22nd 2012 at 3:39PM
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The Root) -- On Friday a special investigator commissioned by the House of Representatives announced that one of the most prominent African-American women in Congress, Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), did not violate House ethics rules. The investigation ca ...
Posted Saturday, September 22nd 2012 at 3:36PM
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There's more to life than having a ''sugar bum bum.'' Body parts should never go in -- or out -- of style.
She was born in Compton. I was born in Trinidad, the most southerly island in the Caribbean. She was raised to become a tennis superstar. In ...
Posted Saturday, September 22nd 2012 at 3:26PM
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When The Simpsons celebrated Fox’s 25th anniversary Sunday night by taking a swipe at Fox News, it was only the latest example of what has become a long tradition. Indeed, taking shots at Fox seems to be The Simpsons’ favorite way of celebrating all ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 11:17PM
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Despite the disastrous 47 percent remarks, it appears Mitt Romney’s strategy to ensnare disillusioned former Obama supporters has saved his candidacy—at least on The Simpsons. An everyman “40-year-old white guy who didn’t go to college and gets all h ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 11:15PM
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The Republican Party has some potentially winning themes for America’s presidential and congressional elections in November. Americans have long been skeptical of government, with a tradition of resistance to perceived government overreach that exten ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 11:10PM
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The books "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" promises to be of the best reads you will ever encounter. Buy your copy today! 866-602-1230
There is no question about the well-documented history where the Black and Jews have st ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 11:07PM
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The books "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" promises to be of the best reads you will ever encounter. Buy your copy today! 866-602-1230 ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 11:02PM
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(CNN) -- Chicago Bulls Guard Derrick Rose broke down in tears at a press conference when asked what a new shoe contract worth $250 million meant to him. His responses on camera and on Twitter were about his feelings on the teachers strike in Chicago. ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 10:56PM
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Orane Gowans (pictured) was trying to get his five-month-old daughter to stop sucking her thumb Achievement
But he ended up braking it in several places instead, WPTV reports. The 28-year-old was arrested and charged with child abuse. It has not bee ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 5:42PM
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The man who took the life of comedian Niecy Nash‘s (pictured) brother some 19 years ago allegedly killed again–this time his own wife, TMZ reports.
Local police in Eunice, La., arrested Robert Lee Heard this weekend and charged him with killing his ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 4:49PM
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Her oncologist, Dr. Gail Ropoz, said on the morning show that Roberts had emailed that note Friday, a day after the procedure. ABC showed a brief video clip of Roberts in her hospital bed receiving bone marrow from her donor sister to treat MDS, a ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 4:44PM
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Cheaters never prosper... and neither do their partners
That said, cheating is as prevalent as ever with one or both spouses copping to either physical or emotional infidelity in about 41 percent of marriages. According to research conducted by the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, those phila ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 12:32PM
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I'm a fan of Chad Johnson & also work in a field of accountability where in order to preface change, accountability that is crystal clear and specific comes first. I'm happy to hear Chad say he takes full accountability and doesn't blame his wife ins ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2012 at 11:41AM
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