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Sad news to report. Kristoff St. John, who has starred in the popular soap opera “Young & the Restless” as Neil Winters, has been found dead at 52. TMZ reports his body was found yesterday, “Law enforcement sources tell us one of Kristoff’s friends went to check on him at the actor’s home in San Fernando […]
Virginia voters and not elected officials you decide…. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam says he won’t resign over a racist photo in his 1984 yearbook. The photo of someone in blackface next to someone in a KKK hood surfaced just a couple of days ago, and Northam’s story about it has been inconsistent. He said it […]
Early Monday morning, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax released a statement denying allegations of Sexual Assualt. Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax deni an unverified allegation of sexual assault that was published on the same website that first published an image of Gov. Ralph Northam’s alleged yearbook photo that shows two men, one in blackface and […]
In 1960 African-American students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College led a series of nonviolent protests at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s department store.
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Despite the growing tension. Gov. Northam released a statement identifying his intentions to serve out the remainder of his term.
Virginia governor Ralph Northam is in some serious hot water on Friday afternoon after a medical school yearbook of the Democratic governor shows a photograph of two people, one in blackface and one in a KKK hood and robe. WTKR obtained the photo of the yearbook and it appears in the 1984 yearbook for Eastern […]
Text DFW to 24042 to join 97.9 The Beat’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). Follow The Beat On Twitter: A few Dallas Mavericks fans may be disappointed by this news. Point Guard Dennis Smith Jr., Center DeAndre Jordan, and Shooting Guard Wesley Matthews have all been traded to the New York Knicks. Dennis has been with the […]
Eleven years before Rosa Park took her famous seat on that Birmingham bus, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy refused to move, sparking a landmark supreme court case. One summer morning in 1944 Irene Morgan boarded a Greyhound bus in Gloucester, Va, where she took her seat in the ‘colored’ section and settled in for her four-hour trip to Baltimore, Md. A short […]
What are lawmakers discussing at the 2019 Virginia General Assembly session? The late term abortion bill is dead this year, but the debate continues between democrats and republicans. Earlier this week, a video of Delegate Kathy Tran admitting that her bill would allow a woman going into labor to get an abortion if just one […]
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Bennett College (one of only two all-female HBCUs) needs to raise 5 million dollars by Feb 1st to maintain their accreditation with SACSCOC.
