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If you are black and atheist, do you feel comfortable sharing your disbelief in God with friends and family? Many black nonbelievers do not. The New York Times reports that, while most black Americans overwhelmingly believe in God to some degree, those who do not find it nearly impossible to discuss their beliefs with loved […]

According to TMZ Bow Wow owes the Internal Revenue Service just short of one hundred thousand dollars. The Cash Money Records artist has been in the studio recording a new album scheduled to drop early 2012. In the meantime : “A tax lien filed in Florida by the federal government says the rapper, real name […]

How much can a person say sorry? When do we know that the other person is sincere? The Huffington Post is reporting that Republican Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann was upset after her recent interview with Jimmy Fallon on NBC.   The Roots, played a 1985 Fishbone song titled “Lyin Ass B—-” as Michele Bachmann walked […]

A 23-year-old Bronx, N.Y.  man who was acquitted of murder in March after spending 4 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit was fatally shot last Monday near his home, police say. See also: Ohio Craigslist Murders: Second Body Identified See also: The Top 5 Unsolved Hip-Hop Murders David Clarke, the ex-murder […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The protesters whose tents line the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall made it clear that they received the eviction notice issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Whether they’ll heed it is much less certain. See also: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds See also: Half Of The People […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Three American college students detained for several days in Egypt as deadly protests swept Cairo have flown home to freedom, one describing an ordeal so terrifying he wasn’t sure he would survive it. “I was not sure I was going to live,” 19-year-old college student Derrik Sweeney told The Associated Press […]

All across the south a ton of criminals have one thing in common. They love themselves some Waffle House! Most recently DeAngelo Heard and Edwin Mitchell have been getting their dine and their crime on. Apparently these two have been accused of  jacking Waffle Houses from Georgia to Alabama. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported: “The MO […]

Herman Cain has another soundbite bomb-dropper for us: He can bring African American voters to the Republican Party in 2012. The Washington Post reports that the self-described “Chocolate Walnut” sent out a mailer to Iowa voters saying that he can grab a large share of the black vote, “something that has not been done since […]

Former Obama Green Energy Czar and progressive political activist Van Jones is starting his own movement. See also: Super Committee Fails, but American People Win Riding the wave of the Occupy movement, Jones’ the American Dream Movement, a coalition of hundreds of progressive organizations, formed to become what Jones describes as the open-source brand of […]

At one time, the state of Georgia was known as one of the easiest states for a Black man in which to get lynched. Between 1915 to 1970 a wave of Black Americans left the deep South to find new opportunities in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit and Chicago. A new story in […]