PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. SEE ALSO: More Elevator Terror Stories In a “special broadcast” Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a “great […]
MSNBC host Al Sharpton and iconic boxing promoter Don King will give away hundreds of turkeys in Harlem, Queens, and other parts of the City on Monday. It all takes place at the National Action Network 106 West 145th Streetin New York, Monday, December 19, 2011 1:00 p.m. In addition to giving away turkeys at NAN’s […]
Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the racial attack on Black youths in the Queens, N.Y. neighborhood of Howard Beach, one that polarized New York City and left marks that are still being felt. The New York Times reports: One of the victims died in the attack and is memorialized in a Brooklyn street sign, […]
When I went to the screening of Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X , Rodney King was sitting in the front row and I was seated next to Alice Walker. At that time he was the proof of what Black men had been saying for so long: The police are trying to kill us unjustly and […]
PRAGUE (AP) — Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule. Shy and bookish, with a wispy mustache and unkempt hair, the dissident playwright was an unlikely hero of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 […]
Pioneer female rapper Karryl Smith aka “Special One” of the west coast rap duo Conscious Daughters was laid to rest today in Oakland, California. She died on December 10th from unknown causes. RELATED: Round Up Of Gene Marks “Poor Black Kid” Critiques Special One and her rap partner Carla Green aka CMG burst onto the […]
