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President Obama signed a major NASA act today (Oct. 11) that turns his vision for U.S. space exploration of asteroids and Mars into law.
The New York Post is reporting on a case where a cab driver settled a discrimination lawsuit against a cab driver who refused to take a Black passenger to Brooklyn, after picking up his white boyfriend. A taxi driver has agreed to settle a discrimination case by paying $2,000 to a white passenger who had […]
Newt Gingrich has always been seen as a visionary when it comes to politics, whether from those on the right who love him and his critics on the left who loathe him. The former speaker of the House of Representatives and the chief architect of the Contract with America — a document that helped usher […]
By Aliya S. King WITHIN THE OPENLY GAY COMMUNITY AT ATLANTA’S MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, THERE’S A SUBGROUP: GENDER BENDERS WHO ROCK MAKEUP, MARC JACOBS TOTE BAGS, SKY-HIGH HEELS AND BEYONCÉ- STYLE HAIR WEAVES. CAN A MAN OF MOREHOUSE BE GAY? ABSOLUTELY. BUT CAN HE BE A WOMAN? MEET THE PLASTICS.
Richard (“Dick”) Gregory was born (1932). Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County, Florida (1945). Forty-six Black and white sailors injured in race riot on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk of North Vietnam (1972). Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain died at age 63 (1999). Take a look at some more moments in Black History below: […]
Eminem was on 60 Minutes last night being interview by Anderson Cooper. When he was asked about homophobic lyrics in songs like “Kill You” and the negative reaction the lyrics received from the media and homosexual community, Eminem said. I felt like I was being attacked,…. was being singled out. I felt like, ‘Is it […]
Donald Wood, an algebra teacher at McGavock High School in Nashville, Tennessee had a nervous breakdown in which he threw desks and chairs, caught on tape by a student. No one is sure what provoked the meltdown and Wood is currently on administrative leave after being hospitalized after the incident. In the video Wood also […]
On July 18th, Byron Williams traveled to California with explosives, guns and ammunition to try and kill progressives. The progressives he intended to kill were members of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, two groups his favorite TV personality, Glenn Beck, would routinely attack on Television. Before he could carry out his attack, he was […]
President Obama showed up to Bowie State University in Maryland to speak at a re-election rally for the state’s Democratic governor Martin O’Mally. Although he spoke at Bowie State as a candiate Obama presence was the first time a sitting president ever spoke at the Maryland HBCU. The president, the governor and Maryland’s Democratic congressional […]
President Barack Obama’s proposed $50 billion transportation spending program would boost jobs in the construction, manufacturing and retail industries and help bolster a struggling economy, a new administration report says.