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RICHMOND — If you’re looking for some clues to your ancestry, you may find them in Virginia. The Virginia Historical Society has launched a new database with over 1,500 searchable slave names. The database, Unknown No Longer, which appears on their site, can find the slave names based on keywords such as name, gender, location, occupation and plantation. […]
President Obama is attempting to win back the love of his liberal base with his approach to his proposed debt plan and the Republican leaders whose opposition he surely faces. RELATED: Obama Embraces Buffett Rule To Tax The Rich Obama, whose plan calls for a tax hike on the wealthy, responded to Republican claims that […]
Documents in a Jacksonville, Florida case where a 12-year-old killed his 2-year-old brother for irritating him show their mother surfed the Web for hours while her child lay unconscious. According to the documents, Biannela Susana, the mother of the two boys, surfed the Web looking for information on “when someone gets knocked out” and concussions. […]
The NAACP has given a man who was convicted of a murder in 1992 an academic scholarship, numerous news sources reported Monday. Over two decades ago, Bruce Reilly, 38, was convicted of murder after he stabbed and Emerson College professor, Charles Russell, to death. Reilly plead no contest to second-degree murder and robbery and spent […]
According to a Wall Street Journal article from 2008, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s former campaign manager Kent Snyder, died of pneumonia in 2008 because he didn’t have any health insurance. The resurfacing of this article comes on the heels of Paul’s statement last week at the Tea Party debate about individuals with no health […]
NEW YORK — Reggae star Denroy Morgan was arrested in the Bronx after police claimed they found him with 25 pounds of marijuana in his car. Morgan is the father of the popular reggae group, Morgan Heritage. The arrest of the 66-year-old Morgan led to the apartment he was coming from being raided. Police claim […]
Rapper 50 Cent is on a campaign to tackle world hunger. His new energy shot drink, Street King, donates a portion of the revenue from each bottle sold to the United Nation’s World Food Program. See also: 50 Cent Selling “Sketchy Penny Stocks” On Twitter 50 Cent says Street King and its robust marketing campaign will […]
The White House recently rejected a bid to posthumously pardon Marcus Garvey. The campaign, led by a Jamaican lawyer in Florida, would overturn Garvey’s 1920s mail fraud conviction that imprisoned the Black leader for almost three years before he was released and deported to Jamaica. Garvey, who led the greatest mass movement of Blacks in […]
Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy. Also read: Chicago Soul Food Restaurants Disappear As Black Residents Leave With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example. “I know that […]
Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy. Also read: Chicago Soul Food Restaurants Disappear As Black Residents Leave With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example. “I know that […]