NEW YORK — Jared Williams, a former star baseball player for Wagner College in Staten Island, is blaming a racist New York City police officer for the demise of his baseball career. Williams claims that after he was falsely arrested by officer Michael Daragjati, he was kicked of his college baseball team and wasn’t allowed […]
Week five has come and gone as Season 13 of “Dancing with the Stars” continues with a more great entertainment and more eliminations toward the goal at the end. Kelly Clarkson (of ‘American Idol’ fame) and The Band Perry took the main stage with musical performances as the world awaited the ballroom fate of the […]
Atlanta rapper T.I. is set to clean up his act in more ways than one this week as he visited ABC’s ‘The View’ for an intimate discussion on his career, his journey, his troubles and his brand new fiction novel “Power & Beauty.” After spending two back to back prison sentences on a variety of […]
GOP presidential contender Herman Cain stood by his comments made last week when he blamed the unemployed for their plight, at last night’s GOP Presidential Debate. At Tuesday night’s CNN debate, Cain stood by his comments — to loud cheers from the audience. “I still stand by my statement,” he said. “They might be frustrated […]
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, an organization led by revolutionary communist Carl Dix, plans to protest against the New York City Police Department over its “Stop-and-Frisk” policy, citing that it unfairly targets blacks and Latinos. The protest will take place on Oct. 21 through a non-violent, civil disobedience demonstration outside of a Harlem police precinct. […]
This week, conservative-leaning, African-American columnist Juan Williams wrote an op-ed in The Hill defending the right to vote against states that are now imposing restrictive laws such as identification requirements. Citing the Brennan Center for Justice report that up to five million citizens could be denied voting privileges in 2012 due to new state rules, […]
A Chicago group is the newest collective of people tired of seeing underwear on their streets. Empowered Citizens of North Lawndale, a neighborhood group in Chicago, is calling on city leaders to make an amendment to indecent exposure laws that will make saggy pants illegal. The group says the trend is offensive and African Americans […]
