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A CBS news station is under fire after it misquoted a 4-year-old boy making him purposely sound violent on the air. In the video, the child tells a reporter from WBBM that the shootings don’t scare him and that, when he grows up, “I’m going to have me a gun.” The comment made it seem […]
The George Clinton concert wasn’t the only funky thing going on this Saturday in Cleveland. An unidentified person fired numerous shots nearby a Clinton concert in Cleveland on Sunday, police said. Police spokesman Sergeant Sammy Morris confirmed that a 16-year-old shot in the head Saturday night died early Sunday at a hospital. Read more here […]
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the FBI to uncover information on possible unconstitutional investigations of certain racial and ethnic groups. The ACLU would like to expose the use of the FBI’s Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide, which they believe may have been used to map people and businesses in Michigan considered “ethnic oriented.” Mark […]
A Houston man is alleging that once he moved into his upscale Houston neighborhood, the racism followed. David Williams, a 24-year-old African American website owner originally from Boston, moved to the Houston neighborhood where homes are valued from $400,000 to $3 million earlier this year. When he arrived, he said he noticed that people looked […]
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams went on the Sean Hannity show to discuss the current debt crisis. Williams, who many describe as a moderate, defended President Obama from Hannity’s verbal assaults. Hannity, who is a Republican, claimed that Obama has been the “worst ideologue to ever live in that house on Pennsylvania Avenue.” He […]
Personal genetics company 23andMe wants to give African-Americans a detailed glimpse into the past. Starting today, the company is offering free genetic testing kits to 10,000 African-Americans in hopes to bolster African-American medical research while allow Black Americans to explore their global origins. Eligible participants must be of African descent, at least 18 years of […]
A recent editorial from The Daily Beast suggests that Rev. Al Sharpton’s endorsement of the Comcast/NBC merger is a somewhat conflict of interest, considering Comcast owns shares in his current employer Radio One, a black-owned niche. The Daily Beast Reports: He was trumpeting a merger that’s already paid dividends to Radio One and its affiliate […]
Denver police are looking for a man who reportedly held up a store with a blood-filled syringe that he claimed had AIDS. The man, who is currently on the run, robbed Gigi’s Cupcake’s in downtown Denver of $300 last week. One of the clerks, Kendra Jackson, claimed that the robber screamed that he would stick […]
NEW YORK — The youngest daughter of Malcolm X, Malikah Shabazz was sentenced to 5 years probation for stealing the identity of the widow of one of her father’s bodyguards. Shabazz, 46, pleaded guilty for racking up a bill of $55,884.28 with various credit companies under the name of Khaula Bakr. The NY Post Reports: […]
While Nafissatou Diallo is currently positioned in the national spotlight for accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape, some are more fixated on her new “attack”: a makeover. Diallo, who walked into the Brooklyn Christian Cultural Center yesterday with patent-leather pumps, was unrecognizable from her previous public appearances. But who made waves yesterday was her lawyer, Ken […]