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BROOKLYN-A four-year-old boy, Jayelin Graham was killed after his step father, Damian Jones’ Cane Corso, an Italian dog trained for hunting wild boars, “Machete” bit his throat and mauled him to death. Graham and his brothers were left alone with the dog who was “trained to kill” according to neighbors who also claimed that the […]
Congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois told Slate Magazine that President Barack Obama was elected due to his race and white guilt. “Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a […]
Naomi Campbell is suing Cadbury over an ad campaign that compares the super-model to chocolate.
NEWARK, N.J. — 19-year-old Rasul McNeil-Thomas was charged with murder yesterday for killing an off-duty police officer in a drive-by shooting. The Westward Patch reports: William C. Johnson, 45, a 16-year veteran of the Newark Police Department, who was assigned to the communications division, was unarmed and not working when he was shot shortly before 10 […]
A Sunday-school teacher and assistant special-education teacher was fired from her job at a Brooklyn elementary school for praying in the classroom. The New York Post reports: PS 224 assistant special-education teacher Anita Wooten-Francis, 52, claims she never hid her faith but took care not to influence kids. She worshiped in her classroom before or […]
NEW YORK — A huge crowd gathered outside the criminal court in Manhattan yesterday, in protest of the acquittal of two police officers charged with raping a drunken women in her apartment. Huffington Post reports: The protest was organized by a coalition of women’s rights groups, including Permanent Wave and Feministing. The purpose of the […]
A New York times article discusses the growing trend of people impersonating police officers. Across the country, criminals are donning badges and uniforms and claiming to be cops in order to gain the trust of unsuspecting victims. The NYT reports: In South Florida, seemingly an incubator of law-breaking innovation, police impersonators have become better organized […]
DeKalb County, GA– Documents were filed late Friday confirming the sexual misconduct case against Bishop Eddie Long has been dismissed.
Your business idea might just be a little closer to reality. The venture capital wing of the communications giant, Comcast, has just announced that it will be providing seed funding for five minority-led startups. The Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program, as it is called, is a partnership between Comcast Interactive Capital and DreamIt Ventures, and will […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died Friday at age 62. A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he […]