NEW YORK (AP) — Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died Friday at age 62. A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he […]
A year after the disaster caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf Coast looks to see some tourism return to it’s shores for the historically busy Memorial Day. Many of those involved in the tourism industry along the Gulf Coast seem optimistic that this weekend will be better than the last. A recent […]
WASHINGTON D.C.-Attorney General, Eric Holder is joining with Wendell Pierce and Sonja Sohn from the critically acclaimed HBO TV series, “The Wire” to announce a public awareness campaign, addressing the challenges faced by children and families affected by drug abuse. This Tuesday, Holder will take part in a panel discussion with the head of the […]
ATLANTA– Former Atlanta Falcons running back Warrick Dunn is saying that cops pulled him over and told him he had the characteristics of someone “transporting drugs and guns”.
LOS ANGELES-Indiewire has posted an Op-Ed piece about the lack of young successful Black lead actors in Hollywood as Denzel Washington and other Black male actors get older. Of all the current Black male lead actors only one, Idris Elba at 38 is younger than 40. That is not a surprise. One outcome of Hollywood’s […]
NEW YORK — The watchful eyes of the Daily News caught the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife leaving his house for a mysterious trip to the doctor’s office. This comes shortly after The New York Post reported that the hotel maid who accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault was living in an apartment […]
A celebration and burial of dead soldiers held by African-Americans on May 1, 1865 on a South Carolina burial ground was the first recorded Memorial Day, according to Yale University history professor David Blight.
NEW YORK-Choy “CC” Barrington, a 21-year-old nurse and cosmetology student, who was three months pregnant, was burned to death in her own room after falling asleep while smoking a cigarette. The New York Daily News reports: Her roommates tried in vain to save the cosmetology student and geriatric nurse, who was three months pregnant, after […]
Everyone at National Action Network’s first-ever women’s power luncheon was elated when our guest, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, said her department was issuing educational scholarships to African Americans from low-income communities who are seeking careers in the health care field. With presentations by Sebelius and Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to […]
ALABAMA — Almost three weeks after the first round of tornadoes swept across the mid-west, a dog that suffered two broken legs in the storms crawled back home to his owners. Although no one is exactly sure how far the injured animal had to crawl, the extent of damage to his legs was so severe […]
Everyone seems to have some type of a scent nowadays, but none can say theirs outsold Diddy’s on the HSN channel. Singer Mary J. Blige earned bragging rights after more than 60,000 bottles were snagged. The Queen of Hip Hop/Soul wears her crown prouder than ever these days. Mary J. Blige recently accepted the award […]
ORLANDO-Robin Leigh Pagoria, a female sheriff’s deputy in Polk County, Florida is charged with recording vicious beatings of girls between the ages of 10 and 18 on a “spanking bench” with leather paddles and then sending the videos to her boyfriend. The New York Daily News reports: One of the girls told investigators she twice […]
