“I can’t change my name ladies and gentlemen,” said Casey Anthony, a 43-year-old male from Darby, PA who shares the same name with the 25-year-old Orlando, FL female who was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, last week. Darby’s Casey Anthony has been bombarded on Facebook, he estimates he’s gotten at least 300 […]
ABC News released footage of an undercover investigation by a LGBT advocacy group, Truth Wins, that may confirm accusations that Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus Bachmann, attempted to convert gay men into heterosexuals. The conversion, known as reparative therapy, was also brought up in 2006, in which Bachmann denied allegations. The Root Reports: In 2006, Bachmann […]
MISSISSIPPI–Authorities are reviewing the case of a black man found hanging dead from a tree after relatives claimed the state’s deputy medical examiner can’t be trusted because he falsified information about a woman’s death while working in Africa in the 1980s. The Grio Reports: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said it began its investigation […]
In the second installment of our interracial relationships series for On The Corner, we asked folks what reactions have they received to dating outside of their race from strangers and close friends and family. Peep the video below, watch the first part here, and stay tuned next week for the last installment. RELATED: On The […]
Arizona Senator Lori Klein is catching flack from local politicians and gun activists for pointing a loaded gun at a reporter during an interview last month. The story made news after Richard Ruelas reported on the incident in an article published in the Arizona Republic on Sunday. The story was part of the newspaper’s five-part series […]
A night of violence left one dead and 12 wounded after three separate shootings ravaged Newark, New Jersey this past weekend. Police are looking for suspects in each of the incidents. A 15-year-old died and eight people were wounded in the South Ward. Authorities say the victims ranged in age from 12 to 32 and […]
OKLAHOMA — In a controversial court case, an Oklahoma pharmacist was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with parole for shooting a Black teenager in a 2009 robbery attempt. Jerome Ersland told the court he was defending himself when he shot Antwun Parker, 16, after Parker and another young man confronted […]
There have been a total of 272 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. Over 150 of the exonerees were African-American. Historically, a disproportionate number of African-Americans have been wrongly convicted of crimes due to false confessions, incriminating statements, and other dubious evidence. Fortunately, the criminal justice system implemented DNA forensics in 1989, offering a […]
TODAY’S SPECIAL GUEST ON THE LINCOLN WARE SHOW AUTHOR & PERFORMANCE POET SAPPHIRE COMPLETE INTERVIEW, PHOTOS & BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO AVAILABLE NOW BELOW Lincoln Ware with author/poet Sapphire on July 12, 2011. ENJOY THE PHOTO GALLERY DEPICTING WHAT YOU EXPERIENCED ON THE AIR LIVE ON THE LINCOLN WARE SHOW PART I – LIVE ON […]
In the second installment of our interracial relationships series for On The Corner, we asked folks what reactions have they received to dating outside of their race from strangers and close friends and family. Peep the video below, watch the first part here, and stay tuned next week for the last installment. RELATED: On The […]
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams estimates that the city has saved an estimated $2 million since his office decided to prosecute certain marijuana possession cases as a summary offense, rather than misdemeanors. Williams instituted the Small Amount of Marijuana (SAM) program in June 2010, which allows offenders with less than 30 grams of marijuana topay […]
Former President Bill Clinton reportedly made more than $75 million in speaking engagements in the last decade, according to an analysis of financial disclosure filed by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the year 2010, Clinton earned $10.7 million dollars for 52 speaking engagements, and reportedly earned an additional $15 million advancement for […]
