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72 Percent Out of Wedlock Black Babies...Take that Number With a Grain of...
Filed under: News, Race and Civil Rights Just in time for Thanksgiving discussions, across America comes more SMDH news about the black community, including the risk of the Republican resurgence...
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Obama Says U.S. Can No Longer Participate in Foolhardy Spending
Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama After 9/11, President Bush urged Americans to shop to help boost the economy. All that spending has finally caught up with us. The United States has gone...
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Rapper Shyne Becomes a Strict Orthodox Jew
Filed under: News, Politics The rapper Shyne is an interesting brother. He's interesting because in 1999, he was one of the hottest new rappers on the scene, destined to have the career that artists...
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Death of 7-Year Old Aiyana Jones Featured in Mother Jones
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights Motherjones.com did an interesting article about the death of 7-year old Aiyana Jones. I wrote about Aiyana a few months ago, as she was shot and...
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Scenes From the 2010 'Soul Train Awards'
Filed under: Music, Photos, Awards 'Soul Train,' the long-running syndicated black music showcase known as the hippest trip in America, has long been known for its soulful music and lively dancing, but...
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Al Sharpton vs. Andrew Cuomo: The N.Y. Governor's Lack of Diversity
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights I saw this week that Rev. Al Sharpton is taking New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo to task for seeming to forget that black people also vote in his...
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Nicole Richie Takes Out Restraining Order for Daughter
Filed under: News Once a hot gal-about-town and now a sedate stay-at-home mom of two, Nicole Richie sent her legal team to an L.A. court to take out a restraining order against a paparazzo who has been...
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Jill Scott to Host Second Blues Babe Fundraiser
Filed under: Music, News, Celeb Updates Jill Scott has had a busy year, appearing in the #1 box office film 'Why Did I Get Married Too' and giving a noteworthy guest performance on 'Law & Order:...
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Bobby Tillman: Police Seek More Suspects in Murder
Filed under: News, Profiles, Race and Civil Rights The sad story of Bobby Tillman's murder is getting sadder with police searching for additional suspects accused of stomping Tillman to death in an...
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5 Officers on Trial for Henry Glover Cover-Up During Katrina Chaos
Filed under: News, Profiles, Race and Civil Rights New Orleans police have long held the reputation of one of the nation's most corrupt big-city departments in the country. The trial of of five...
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NFL Great Dave Meggett Is Going to Prison for 30 Years
Filed under: Football Former NFL superstar Dave Meggett was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday on criminal sexual conduct and burglary charges. Meggett, who played with the New York Giants, New...
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50 Cent's Latest Viral Video: A Shameless Marketing Ploy?
Filed under: Celebrity News It's hard to believe that just a few years ago, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson was actually the hottest thing in the rap game. Seemingly rising to fame out of nowhere in 2003, 50...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Pressured to Step Aside by Democrats
Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama, Health Care Debate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being pressured to step aside by several of her Democratic colleagues after she announced that she wanted...
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Why the Unemployment Numbers Are Better Than You Think
Filed under: News, The Economy Last Tuesday's election, by most accounts, was a referendum on the state of the economy. The GOP took back the House and nearly regained the Senate by continually...
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'Bad Girls Club' Catya Washington Needs Bail Money Now
Filed under: News, Media Reality TV star of the Oxygen Channel's "Bad Girls Club" Catya Washington who got nabbed by Pennsylvania state police with drugs and a firearm earlier this month is in...
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Black Civil War Vet Gets Grave Marker Almost 100 Years Later
Filed under: News, Race and Civil Rights In a Veterans Day story that should make all Americans proud, a black Civil War soldier who fought for the Union finally received a veteran's grave marker for...
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Did You Know That the GM & Chrysler Bailouts Actually Paid Off?
Filed under: News, The Economy I could go on an on about how bad a job the Obama Administration does of "selling" its policy decisions, but given how many variations of this theme I've already written,...
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Western Sahara Rocked By New Violence
Filed under: News, Race and Civil Rights Moroccan police and local residents in the Western Sahara seeking independence clashed in tear-gas fueled fighting. The fighting pits the Morocco government...
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Black Girls Rock! Spelman Students Win AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge
Filed under: News Who says girls aren't good in math and science? Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller -- two brilliant women of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, have smashed that myth by winning the...
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Black News Website Calls R. Kelly a Pedophile
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights There was a recent uproar on Amazon.com. The public outcry occurred after a book was released that appears to be defending the practice of pedophilia....
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