New York — Rob Sgobbo, a young writer for the New York Daily News, has had a freelance story he wrote yanked from the Village Voice‘s website. He apparently fabricated sources and lied about his reporting. Voice editor Tony Ortega says in an editor’s note that in a story examining for-profit colleges (here’s the cached […]
This week, we started our weekend early with the University of Cincinnati & Xavier University Alumni Associations at Mixx Ultra Lounge for the official “Crosstown Shootout” Happy Hour. Guests of all ages gathered for an evening of fun, food and fellowship as we watched the big game and shared memories of our college experiences of hanging […]
WASHINGTON — The nation’s added 103,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months. The previous month’s African-American unemployment rose to 16 percent and has now dipped slightly to 15.8 percent, while black teen unemployment declined to 44.2 percent, but remains the highest of […]
Reports are coming out of Georgia that prison guards have retaliated with violence in response to the Georgia Prison strike that took place last month. According to Georgia State NAACP President Edward Dubose, inmates have been beaten with hammers and other foreign objects allegedly in retaliation for their participation in the strike. President Dubose says […]
Mississippi– Two Mississippi sisters who have been imprisoned for 16 years were released on Friday morning on the condition that the younger sibling donate a kidney to her older sister, whose organs are failing. Jamie and Gladys Scott walked out of the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. at just after 8 a.m. Central […]
NEBRASKA — More disturbing details are slowly emerging from the tragedy that occurred at Millard South High School In Omaha, Nebraska on Wednesday.
January 12 marks the one year anniversary of the tragic earthquake in Haiti that claimed the lives of over 300 thousand Haitians. Legendary disco singer Gloria Gaynor is committed to giving back the best way she knows how – through lending her voice to the cause.
CHICAGO — This story would actually be pretty funny if it wasn’t so sad and racist.
Los Angeles– Elgin Baylor is suing Clippers owner Donald Sterling for false termination. Baylor is claiming that Sterling refused to pay for African American talent and would offend African American players. ESPN reports: “During this same period, players Sam Cassell, Elton Brand and Corey Maggette complained to me that DONALD STERLING would bring women into […]
New York — Today, as promised, the Congress read the Constitution out loud today. Or parts of it. They actually opted to only read the Constitution-as-amended, meaning among other things they left out the three-fifths compromise that declared slaves to be the equivalent of three-fifths of a full vote. They also left out the 18th […]
It would be easy to say that a black man born in 1947, in the ghetto of uptown Manhattan, has the odds stacked against him. But Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stood tall—7 feet, 2 inches tall — in the midst of this troublesome time and place. In high school, he won three straight New York City Catholic […]
Los Angeles – Paris, Michael Jackson’s only daughter, reportedly screamed daddy as she walked in on her day laying motionless with Dr. Murray next to him. The distraught girl, just 11 at the time, apparently fell to her knees, broke down in tears and screamed: “Daddy.” In the few traumatic seconds she was in the […]
