A Willowbrook man wanted to get money from his family, so he staged his own kidnapping and demanded a $1,000 ransom, NBC 5 Chicago reports. SEE ALSO: Gay Marriages Next Big Hurdle L.A.’s School Sex Abuse Scandal Dorian Ford, 19, is now charged with a Class 4 felony of filing a false crime report. DuPage […]
A nationwide pro-atheist campaign launched to coincide with Black History Month has some African-Americans reaffirming their spiritual convictions. SEE ALSO: Washington State Legalize Gay Marriage Gay Marriage’s Next Big Hurdle “It’s a sign of the end times,” said Reverend Kyev Tatum of Harmony Missionary Baptist Church in Texas. “People will turn from the truth and […]
LAS VEGAS — Rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is facing a March court date in Las Vegas following his arrest on a 2009 traffic warrant and a new misdemeanor drug charge, authorities said Thursday. SEE ALSO: Is Mitt Romney Losing His Mojo? Prince Harry Fights In Afghanistan War The former Death Row Records executive, […]
Gwinnett County sheriff’s deputy, Duone Clark, 40, was arrested Wednesday and held without bond on charges that he sexually assaulted a male inmate while on duty, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. SEE ALSO: Washington State To Legalize Gay Marriage In addition to the alleged sexual assault, Clark is being held for violation of oath by […]
Two white supremacists are set to speak at panels at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference that will also feature speeches by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. The first white supremacist is Peter Brimelow the owner of the website VDare, which is labeled by the SPLC as an anti-immigration hate website. VDare has […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. states reached a landmark $25 billion deal Thursday with the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst. SEE ALSO: Washington State To Legalize Gay Marriage The deal requires five of the largest banks to reduce loans for about 1 million households at risk of foreclosure. […]
NEW YORKÂ — It takes two men to replace The Big Man. SEE ALSO: Unbelievable! Meet The 88-Year-Old Marathoner Bruce Springsteen announced Thursday that two musicians – Jersey Shore sidekick Eddie Manion and Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake – will “share the saxophone role” during the E Street Band’s “Wrecking Ball” world tour, which begins March […]
School officials in Slidell, La., don’t have much to say about “malicious drawings” of President Barack Obama from a 7th grade class , including one of him with a bullet hole in his head, but they should. SEE ALSO: Black High School Basketball Players Mocked With Banana Suits, Monkey Chats According to the news reports: […]
Oscar-winner Halle Berry is reportedly asking permission to relocate to France with her daughter, Nahla, and baby daddy Gabriel Aubry isn’t too happy about it, according to TMZ. SEE ALSO: Black Woman Leads Crusade For LGBT Rights TMZ reports: Sources tell us Gabriel is livid because he believes the move is punitive and designed to […]
“Better Mus Come” a Jamaican movie that covers the turbulent era of political violence in the late 70s will have its NYC premiere Thursday, February 16th at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade theater at 7pm. The movie tells the story of a gang leader in Jamaica with ties to a political party and his struggle raising […]
The Chicago Teachers Union has accused the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system of racism. On Wednesday, the Teachers Union filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office, alleging that while 29 percent of the CPS system teachers were African American, 43 percent of those teachers were subject to a massive 2011 layoff spree. […]
Caretakers for the late rapper Nate Dogg are suing his estate, claiming that they are owed $293,512.52 for medical expenses that were never paid to them by his family, according to TMZ. SEE ALSO: Gay Marriages Next Big Hurdle When the G-funk stylist suffered a second stroke in 2008, he was placed at CareMeridien, a post-acute care […]
