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FLORIDA-Antonio D. Drayton has been charged with the murder of Saleha Huuda a University of Florida cheerleader. An accomplice, Cassandra Kimbrough, was also charged in her death. Drayton and Huuda had been romantically linked and Drayton had been accused by battering Huuda but she dropped the charges. The Florida Independent Alligator reports: Drayton and Kimbrough […]
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Shelby County Alabama asked a federal judge in Washington today to declare two key parts of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress relied on old voting statistics when it extended the historic civil rights law for another 25 years. The case, likely to wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court, […]
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New York — A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars – including Jackie Robinson and James Brown – became a historic district Tuesday on the first day of Black History Month.
New York — A nun’s bogus claim that she was choked and raped by a black man has angered – but not surprised – African-American men in her Brooklyn neighborhood. Detectives combed through East Flatbush investigating the “rape” of Sister Mary Turcotte, a member of the rogue Christian sect Apostles of Infinite Love, which has […]
NEW YORK-After the Tuscon tragedy, activist Al Sharpton has called on the FCC to regulate racism on the radio, particularly Rush Limbaugh. The Hill Reports: We’re not telling Rush don’t say what he wants to say. Say it at home,” Sharpton said in December. “Don’t get on publicly regulated radio and television that are selectively […]
Last year, Vanity Fair found themselves in hot water after releasing a “lily-white” actresses cover for their ’09 New Hollywood issue. Many African Americans in the entertainment community felt disrespected by the idea that the magazine couldn’t find any viable Black actors or actresses on the cover. This year, things have changed as the people […]
Ohio — On Monday grand theft charges were dismissed against Kelley Williams-Bolar and her father, Edward Williams, in the school residency case that has outraged the nation. But both still face felony counts of tampering with records, and the case continues to be a key part of the national debate over education reform. The 40-year-old […]
BATON ROUGE, La — About 230 current and former employees at a Louisiana-based oil services company have filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying they were forced to work in facilities where racist graffiti, slurs and discrimination are commonplace. The lawsuit was filed this week in a Texas federal court against Turner Industries Group LLC, which […]
NEW JERSEY-In a stunt reminiscent of James O’Keefe’s Fake Pimp prank on ACORN, a young African American male visited planned Planned Parenthood and told them about his underage sex workers and received advice on how to have them treated for STD’s, while the woman that they talked with, Amy Woodruff, told them how to avoid […]