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MIAMI-After the Miami Heat defeated the Chicago Bulls last night, Bulls Center, Joakim Noah told a fan “F*** you F***word(homophobic slur).” Kobe Bryant was previously fined $100,000 for using the word about a referee whose call he disagreed with. RELATED STORIES NBA Fines Kobe Bryant $100K For Calling Ref A “F****t” Writer Slams LeBron For […]

NEW YORK — Writer Stanley Crouch says Dr. Cornel West is narcissistic, a sensationalist, and an “academic loudmouth” who can’t be taken seriously by “true” black intellectuals, in a recent NYdailynews.com article. He also said that this man would prefer to have himself seen as a “revolutionary” – one whose pay level is commensurate with […]

LONDON — U.S. President Barack Obama says he would order another covert military raid like that which killed Osama bin Laden if it was necessary to stop terrorist attacks.

African American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says the drivers of problem solving and job creation in the world depend on whether American students demand scientific literacy. “Math needs better marketing,” deGrasse Tyson told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien during an intimate sit down on the subject of  math and science in American education. Tyson’s interview is a […]

WASHINGTON — Trying to make his case for overhauling the nation’s education laws, President Barack Obama is highlighting progress at a Tennessee high school as evidence that the proper incentives can help all schools succeed. Obama focused his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday on Memphis’ Booker T. Washington High School, where the president delivered […]

ATLANTA — If there is an early crowd favorite in the Republican race for president, it may be Herman Cain. The businessman, author, talk radio show host and tea party darling knows how to wow a conservative gathering. Now the 65-year-old Cain will try to see if he can use that grass-roots enthusiasm to turn […]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of California-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative has awarded UC Riverside a $156,417 grant to mentor and encourage more African American undergraduates to enroll in UC graduate programs. A total of 18 African American students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) will spend eight weeks at the Riverside campus […]

NEW YORK– Popular blogger and People.com editor Janet Mock  goes on the record in a candid interview revealing that she was in fact born a boy in a recent interview with Marie Claire.

Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, the first African American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, believes it is time to get back to basics when it comes to American schools. “We took our focus away from excellence and performance and accountability,” Burns told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien about the dilemma of science and math education in […]

LONDON– Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, a lecturer in the London School of Economic’s management department is under fire for an article he published on Psychology Today claiming that black women were rated to be less attractive than women of other races.