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Boxing Coach Gives Teens a Fighting Chance
Boxing clubs in inner-cities have produced champions like Riddick Bowe of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and Hasim Rahman of Baltimore. One boxing coach in Rochester, N.Y., though, is looking to produce more...
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Latest Black Celebrity in Financial Trouble: Jermaine Jackson
Filed under: Celebrity News TMZ is reporting that Jermaine Jackson is in serious financial trouble and unable to make his child support payments. In this embarrassing turn of financial events: Jermaine...
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Wyclef Jean Hospitalized For 'Stress And Fatigue' In Secret Location
Filed under: Music, News, Celeb Updates Wyclef Jean hasn't been having the best year. It appears all of his recent let-downs related to running for president of Haiti and being dropped from the ballot...
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Lil Kim Enters Beauty Business With New Salon Extending Her Brand
Filed under: Celebrity News Hip-hop blogger Necole Bitchie has a great story on her site about Lil Kim entering the beauty business. The self-proclaimed queen bee of rap has opened a salon with her...
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Death Row Inmate Can't Decide How to Die
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights The absurd nature of how this country puts people to death is on full display this week in California. It's already been decided that the doomed man,...
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Improve Schools? Pay Parents to Read to Children
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights I watched all the glad-handing and backslapping and smiles and pledges of success around the $100 million gift from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg...
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Opening Night: Daniel Beaty's 'Through The Night'
Last night at the Union Square Theatre in New York City was the theater opening of 'Through The Night,' in which Obie Award winner Daniel Beaty plays six characters in this one man performance....
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President Obama Wants To Extend School Year By A Month
Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama Sorry kids, President Obama wants to extend the school year by a month. "That month makes a difference," the President said Monday in an appearance on the...
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Divine Protection
Filed under: Weekly Inspiration Your Daily Affirmation for Tuesday, September 28, 2010: Today I affirm that I AM am divinely protected as the Light, Love, Power, Wisdom and Mercy of God surround,...
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Albert Haynesworth Says His NFL Contract Doesn't Make Him a Slave
Filed under: Interviews, Football Washington Redskins defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth has been dragged through the mud this summer. It started when Mike Shanahan was hired as the head coach and...
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Luv Coach Q&A: Pass the Sex, Please!
Filed under: Luv Coach, Marriage, Sex I am a middle-aged woman in an 18-year marriage that is seriously lacking in sexual intimacy and romance. My husband stated that whenever he is stressed or has a...
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Enraged Man Kills Estranged Wife, 4 Stepchildren
Filed under: Politics Natasha Whyte-Dell, who was estranged from her abusive husband (pictured), was killed along with four of her seven children. Her husband shot her to death. Apparently, Whyte-Dell...
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Bishop Eddie Long's Followers Will Stay True
Filed under: News, Profiles, Politics, Race and Civil Rights It should surprise no one that many followers of disgraced church leader Bishop Eddie Long will stand by his side despite allegations that...
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Eddie Bernice Johnson and CBC Embarrassed by Anderson Cooper
Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money, News I watched 'Anderson Cooper 360' last night, and saw a black woman's face on the screen. Like most other African Americans, this was my cue to turn the volume up to...
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Buju Banton News: Hung Jury Causes Mistrial on Drug Charge
Filed under: News, Profiles, Race and Civil Rights It appears that reggae singer Buju Banton dodged a big bullet when his drug trial ended with a hung jury Monday evening. After beating charges that...
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No, Albert Haynesworth, You're Not a Slave: No Slave Made $100 million
Filed under: Celebrity News, Careers Let's face it: professional athletes tend to greatly exaggerate their sense of self worth, sometimes resulting in some truly mind blowing statements. No sport...
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2-Year-Old Allegedly Killed by Mom's Boyfriend for Not Saying ABCs
A 2-year-old child (pictured) was found strangled and beaten to death Saturday, and his mother and her boyfriend have been charged. Aiyden Davis, who was just a few days shy of his third birthday and...
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President Obama Says School Year Should Be Longer; Bad Teachers Should Be...
Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama President Barack Obama is calling for a longer school year to close America's achievement gap. He also wants teachers who do not perform well out of the...
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Around the Web: Mos Def Signs With Kanye, GOP's 'Pledge to America,' Drinking...
Filed under: Around the Web Mos Def Signs to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music Mos Def joins the G.O.O.D. Music family, which also includes Common, Kid Cudi, John Legend, Big Sean, Consequence and Pusha T of...
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2 Men Face Hate Crime Charges For Beating White Teen For 'Enslaving Our People'
Filed under: News, Race and Civil Rights Two men who are accused of beating a White teen bloody because they were upset at him over slavery should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The...
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