Georgia’s Effingham Police Department is quiet as can be after a video released shows two of their cops sucker punching and attacking a Black man while in his car. Bernard Wallace was on his way home with brother Calvin Lee, when the police pulled them over on a routine traffic stop. While Lee and Wallace […]
WASHINGTON– Rodney J. McIntyre, 45, has been charged with the rape and murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Ebony Franklin, after police revealed that the father’s semen was found in the girl’s body.
A recent article on the New York Times is about the way in which college graduates are facing greater and greater difficulty in finding employment after leaving school. The New York Times reports: Employment rates for new college graduates have fallen sharply in the last two years, as have starting salaries for those who can […]
In the history of African-Americans who fought for the rights of our people, a conversation cannot go by without mentioning the great Malcolm X. Today, May 19th, would have been the 86th birthday of the great civil rights leader who was killed by an assassin’s bullet. It would have been interesting to see what he’d […]
CALIFORNIA — Cali Swag District released a statement to MTV News urging people who know something about the circumstances of the shooting of M-Bone to come forward and help police.
Singer Alicia Keys has broken her silence on allegations by the ex-wife of Swizz Beatz that she ruined their marriage. Keys, who married Swizz Beatz early last year, has been accused by singer Mashonda of breaking up their happy home. The allegations have hurt her a lot, said Keys. “We didn’t start seeing each other […]
It is being reported that the sexual coercion lawsuits against Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church are likely to be tried publicly, rather than settled out of court as it was initially thought. The Root reports: Settlement discussions between the prosperity preacher and the four young men who have filed civil […]
FONTANA, Calif.– A 9-month pregnant woman said she was robbed at gunpoint by an 80-year-old woman in the parking lot of a Kohl’s. NY Daily News reports: The victim, who is nine months pregnant, said she was waiting in the parking lot of a Kohl’s department store in Fontana, Calif., at around 11:00 a.m. when […]
WASHINGTON– Albert Haynesworth, an NFL star who is facing misdemeanor sexual abuse charges for allegedly fondling an African-American waitress’ breast in a D.C. Hotel, is saying her claims are false because he doesn’t like black women, according to statements allegedly given to a detective.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Serena Wardlaw was arrested on assault charges for allegedly beating her 9-year-old son with an extension cord for taking a check from her checkbook so that he could buy a book from his school’s book fair. The Grio reports: An investigation revealed that Wardlaw was enraged when she found out that her […]
An elderly woman in Atlanta is claiming that a bus driver allegedly dragged her and caused her to break an arm. The 62-year-old passenger Lettie Robinson was getting off a bus and tried to get her purse back inside the bus. “I was reaching for my key in my purse, and she closed the door […]
CAIRO — A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site Twitter.
