A new high-definition channel dedicated to African Americans is launching early next year called Legacy TV. The brainchild of television producer Byron Allen, Legacy TV will aim to show positive, celebratory images of Black people across the world. “The mission of Legacy.TV is to celebrate African-American excellence everywhere,” said Allen, the former comedian who heads […]
NEW ORLEANS — As the latest figures shows Black unemployment climbing to 16%, Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) claims that the Obama administration has failed African Americans. Bachmann pointed to the figures at the recent Republican Leadership Conference held in New Orleans last weekend. “This president has failed the Hispanic community. He has […]
NEW YORK–A 17-year-old girl viciously attacked a female New York City bus driver Tuesday, after she was told she could not board with her dog. Steangeli Medina was stopped from getting on the Bx9 in the Bronx on Fordham Road in Belmont just before 6 p.m., according to officials. The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, noticed a […]
NEW YORK-Steangeli Medina a 17-year-old girl from the Bronx, allegedly beat bus driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, after the bus driver told her she couldn’t board the bus with the small dog she was carrying. The New York Daily News reports: The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, spotted a pooch tucked in the teen’s jacket and told her […]
Before sipping from the Obama Kool Aid, I was dead set against the idea of a Black president. The standard analogy that I gave went like this: America is like a stolen car; the Indians are the rightful owners, the Pilgrims/Europeans are the thieves. Black people are like kidnap victims, tied up and thrown in […]
NEW YORK — Nearly fifty years ago, Blacks retreated from the South to elude the implications of segregation. Ironically, today many Blacks, in New York especially, are migrating back to the South in search of economic refuge. About 17 percent of African-Americans who moved to the south in the past decade came from New York, […]
A scarlet fever epidemic has hit Hong Kong, infecting more than 400 people, China’s Health Department declared today. Two children have died from the illness, and the Health Department warns that the epidemic may get worse. People who are infected with scarlet fever typically have a high fever and there tongue darkens with red blotches, […]
An Amish man from Milford, Ind., who pulled into a police sting operation in a horse and buggy has been charged with soliciting a 12-year-old girl via sexting. Willard Yoder, 21, allegedly sent more than 600 text, picture and video messages to the local girl that he didn’t know, including solicitations for sex and naked […]
Some Americans are willing to work for much less than people from other countries, according to the results of an online experiment conducted by Newsweek. The magazine used Mechanical Turk, a website run by Amazon.com that acts as a marketplace for freelance work. As Newsweek described their method: [W]e posted simple, hourlong jobs (listening to […]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is set to sign a bill on Tuesday that eliminates state and federal funding from nine of the state’s Planned Parenthood health centers. If the bill goes through, Wisconsin will become the fourth state to defund Planned Parenthood. “The way the language [of the bill] is written, we also can’t partner […]
A Texas man convicted of murdering two people, and paralyzing another, was executed Tuesday, despite evidence he suffered from metal retardation. Milton Mathis, 32, was convicted in 1999 for shootings that killed a 24-year-old, Travis Brown III, and 31-year-old, Daniel Hibbard. The Texas Correctional system discovered that Mathis suffered from mental retardation after IQ tests […]
Most discussions on race focus on conflicts between whites and generalized communities of color. A new study by “The Sentencing Project” expands our awareness of the impact of racial prejudices to include differences in how African-Americans of different skin tones are treated. In their study, “The Impact of Light Skin on Prison Time for Black […]
