New York University paid an African worker $210,000 in a settlement suit after his supervisor called him a “monkey” and a “gorilla.” “Do you want a banana?” NYU employee Osei Agyemang was asked by his boss at NYU’s Bobst Library. According to Agyemang, his boss taunted him with such racially inflammatory remarks for nearly two years. The […]
NEW YORK — A devout Christian was mugged and robbed of his cash and the bible he was carrying in the Bronx late last week. The attack happened as the man was coming home from work at 2:00am and was caught on camera. The New York Post reports: The video shows the first goon suddenly […]
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A New Jersey rappper was found shot dead in an SUV in suburban New Jersey. He was also shot before the SUV was torched along with his body. The rapper, Kampane, real name Rhian Stout, was so badly burned it took a day for police to identify the body. The New York […]
There are a number of strategies you can make use of to find out what your “financial” personality is like, so that you can get out of debt and start learning some responsibility. Statistics show that household debt is skyrocketing, reaching new and new heights year after year. Consumer loans comprise around 30 percent of […]
Ratings agency Fitch reaffirmed the U.S.’s triple-A credit rating with a stable outlook — two weeks after Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. debt to double-A plus. Fitch cited the U.S.’s –quote “pivotal role in the global financial system,” “wealthy economy,” and “exchange rate flexibility” as pillars of the nation’s creditworthiness. To hear more about this […]
Graduate school at a predominantly white institution was a complete culture shock after four years of attending a historically black college and university. Since the age of 10 I knew I would attend and graduate from an HBCU. Both my mother and my aunt were products of HBCUs, and I understood early in adolescence what […]
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that impeaching President Barack Obama “would be a great thing to do” on a conference call with bloggers on Tuesday night, Politico reports. However, Cain pointed out that doing so would be difficult. HuffingtonPost.com report: “Because the Senate is controlled by Democrats we would never be able to get […]
