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The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers: The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports: As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall […]
NEW YORK-Rapper G-Dep, real name, Trevell Coleman has pleaded not guilty to murder in an Manhattan courtroom yesterday. Coleman had previously confessed to the murder of John Henkel in 1993. AllHipHop reports: According to his lawyer Anthony Ricco, the not-guilty plea was a procedural step, so that G-Dep’s confession to police could be scrutinized, because […]
FRAMINGHAM, MA A Framingham police Swat Team killed an unarmed grandfather of 12 in Framingham Massachusetts, 68-year-old Eurie Stamps. The Boston Herald Reports: A Framingham SWAT team member yesterday was placed on administrative leave for fatally shooting a 68-year-old grandfather of 12, police said, as relatives struggled to cope with the sudden and violent death. […]
NEW YORK – Bobby Robinson, a fixture of Harlem’s 125th Street for six decades who died last week at 93, was remembered tonight by U.S. Representative Charles Rangel and about 100 mourners in a church one block away from Robinson’s legendary record shop.
TUCSON, Ariz. — As the funeral for the youngest victim of the mass shooting in Arizona was set to begin Thursday, the largest flag recovered from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center was raised by two fire trucks with ladders extended, and several hundred people lined a road near the […]
NEW YORK — The number of Americans filing for their first week of unemployment benefits jumped sharply last week, two weeks after hitting a 2-1/2 year low below 400,000. There were 445,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Jan. 8, the Labor Department said in a weekly report Thursday. That’s up 35,000 from […]
New York– A court battle over the health and financial affairs of R&B icon Etta James has revealed that the ‘At Last’ singer is gravely ill with leukemia and is suffering from dementia, The Press-Enterprise reports.
ALABAMA — An estimated 300 dead birds have been found on the side of the I-65 highway in Alabama, WAFF News reports.
Nebraska– Police are looking for three women involved in a brutal fight that took place on a bus in Lincoln, Neb. One of the women had her two children with her. KOLN’s Cassie Anderson reports on the shocking video.
ARIZONA Days after the Tuscon, Arizona shooting, a billboard for Rush Limbaugh’s radio show with the words “Straight Shooter” and features bullet holes in it still stands in Tuscon. Limbaugh has been extremely defensive about the incident, blaing democrats, defending Sarah Palin and criticizing Arizona Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik. RELATED STORIES Rush Limbaugh: Democrats Support Arizona […]
Washington D.C.– Getting the nod as the black consensus candidate for next month’s Chicago mayoral election worked like a charm for Carol Moseley Braun — the third time around.
WASHINGTON D.C. Black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta has celebrated its 98th Founder’s Day. Delta Sigma Theta was founded in 1913 at Howard University by 22 female students. Delta Sigma Theta has a history of political activism dating since the women’s suffrage movement when they marched in the 1918 Women Suffrage March in Washington D.C. The […]