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Sacramento — A Sacramento TV news crew was attacked by two dozen angry mourners outside the scene of the shooting of a 27 year-old man. Two of the crew members were pulled by the hair and kicked to the ground. Related: 25 reasons we loved Love Jones Read more at Huffington Post RELATED: CBS reporter […]
The 2000 U.S. Census recently revealed that the name “Washington” is what you may call “The Blackest Name In America.” Related: Top 9 must-see Black films Close to 90 percent of the 163,036 people found with the name Washington in the census were African-American. The story of this name began after the Civil War when […]
An African-American women is making history as the first black woman from Alabama to take the congressional oath of office. Once sworn into office in November, Terri Sewell will be part of a record making Congress who now will have 15 black woman serving.
Michael Vick has broken his date with Oprah Winfrey. Vick was slated to be a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey” show next Thursday, February 24th. But “The Oprah Winfrey Show” says Michael Vick canceled “for personal reasons.” Vick released a statement through his spokesperson Chris Shigas saying, “After careful consideration I will need to postpone […]
Michael Vick has broken his date with Oprah Winfrey. Vick was slated to be a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey” show next Thursday, February 24th. But “The Oprah Winfrey Show” says Michael Vick canceled “for personal reasons.” Vick released a statement through his spokesperson Chris Shigas saying, “After careful consideration I will need to postpone […]
For years, Michael Jordan inspired us to “wanna be like Mike”. Today Michael Jordan, one of sports greatest philanthropists celebrates another year and there is still good reason to want to be like him.
First Lady Michelle Obama recently asked women to breast-feed more as she did with her children as part of her “Let’s Move” campaign. She believes there are health benefits with breast-feeding your children. Only 55 percent of Black women breastfeed their children. Whites and Latinos are both higher than 75 percent. The topic has always […]
LAYTON, Utah (VIA NBC) – Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be the hero. Just ask four former Walmart employees. They’re looking for jobs after disarming an alleged shoplifter. Police report on January 13, Trent Allen Longton was seen stashing a Netbook computer inside his clothes in the electronics department of a Walmart near Salt Lake […]
Whoopi Goldberg used her bully pulpit on ‘The View’ on Monday to blast The New York Times and two of its marquee writers for what she believed was a disrespectful article about race and the Academy Awards. “I’m embarrassed to tell you it hurt me terribly,” the actress said in a segment focusing on a […]
Four Wal-Mart employees have been fired after management said they violated company policy by disarming an alleged shoplifter who had pulled a gun inside the store. Lori Poulsen, Justin Richins, Shawn Ray and Gabriel Stewart were all longtime workers at Wal-Mart’s Layton, Utah, store. Poulsen was an asset protection coordinator, Richins and Ray were asset […]
The Global Grind just reported that Lara Logan was viciously sexually assaulted this week. CBS News has just issued a statement saying that their foreign correspondent reporter, Lara Logan was subjected to a ‘brutal and sustained beating and sexual assault’ in Egypt while covering the downfall of Mubarak. The word is she was separated from […]
Andrew Breitbart, who was recently sued by Shirley Sherrod for defamation of character, has released a controversial cartoon which features Michelle Obama on his site BigGovernment.com that mocks Michelle Obama’s fitness campaign, while making her look like a fat hungry woman. The cartoon has already been criticized by the web site Bossip, Thefrisky and Mediamatters. […]