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New York– Comedienne Joan Rivers revealed she once ditched a joke about First Lady Michelle Obama from her stand-up routine — because she feared she’d be accused of racism.
Akron — Yesterday and today, Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere have been hopping with news about an Akron, Ohio mom jailed for sending her daughters to school in a suburban district where she did not live. Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single mom living in public housing, was sentenced to 10 days of jail, three years of […]
SOUTHFIELD, Mich – The family of the serial rapist suspect apologizes for the suffering of innocent women. They told FOX 2 they’re now putting their faith in the legal system to deliver justice for them and the victims. “When he was just out here for the last two years, I really was just getting to […]
Check out our galleries at the end of article Link to opinion piece on article: Is her punishment for giving her child a better life justice? Ohio – An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in […]
In an ideal America, our president would have told us Tuesday night about his plan not only for fixing the jobs crisis but also for making it so that the crisis wasn’t twice as bad for black people (15.8 percent unemployment versus 8.5 percent for whites). But this isn’t an ideal America, and he didn’t. […]
“Annie Christian was a whore always looking for some fun being good was such a bore, so she bought a gun she killed John Lennon, shot him down cold she tried to kill Reagan, everybody say gun control” –Prince, “Annie Christian” (1981) ” … a prayer vigil/press conference at Brookdale Hospital to pray for the […]
New York– A Queens woman is blaming police for her 72-year-old husband’s fatal heart attack over a week ago, when she said they tried to write her a summons for not wearing a seat belt. The widow Doris Hudson claims the officers made her husband walk a half mile home to get her I.D. in […]
Roland Martin joins the “Best Political Team on Television” for reactions to President Obama’s State of the Union address. President Barack Obama did not mention poor or middle class Americans. Roland called this omission a failure. WATCH:
New York — Detectives are investigating how a Harlem teen who dreamed of becoming a music teacher wound up dead in a snowbank outside a building in the Abraham Lincoln Houses, police said. A passerby spotted the snow-covered body of Gregory Willis Jr., 17, on Sunday morning – four days after his family reported him […]
Congressman James Clyburn joins Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss President Obama’s State of the Union address, what it means for African-Americans and government spending.