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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 […]

CHICAGO– Robert Spearing, 44,  told police that two men beat him up and stole his tickets to Tuesday’s Oprah show, but later admitted that he’d actually used a rock to cut his own forehead and scraped his hands on the sidewalk.

They say that you must always know where you came from in order to know where you are going to. It is the natural progression of life to learn from our predecessors. If we do not, then we lose all that we have because the lesson is lost. We all complain about our jobs, prices, […]

WASHINGTON — United States Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stated that there was no evidence that anyone in the upper echelons of Pakistan’s leadership knew that Osama Bin Laden was hiding in their country. The New York Times reports: “I have seen no evidence at all that the senior leadership knew,” Mr. Gates said. “In […]

Across the nation, local churches and other religious organizations have stepped up their recession-busting efforts with free career workshops, resume clinics and networking functions. The latter can generate quick leads if leveraged properly since religious-centered networks tend to have very invested members, says Elliot Lasson, executive director of Joblink of Maryland, a job matching service […]

Daytime talk-show host Wendy Williams’ husband, Kevin Hunter is being accused of having a long term relationship with a transvestite prostitute known professionally as Monica and/or Mistress Terri according to several sources. According to diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com, Monica aka Mistress Terri, a known New Jersey transvestite prostitute, has Hunter’s personal cell phone number and even knows the […]

Sugar Ray Leonard was sexually abused by his coach, the boxer reveals in an upcoming memoir Big Fight. In a week, where numerous sports figures have admitted to either being gay or being sexually abused, the Hall of Fame boxer joins the list. At age 15, Leonard and another teenage fighter were instructed to take […]

The first African-American to own a NASCAR racing team will link up with the organization again in an executive role for one of its most important foundations: The NASCAR STEM Initiative. As part of a larger education program called the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge, the NASCAR STEM Initiative uses its powerful name brand (and extremely […]

NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]

Princeton professor Melissa Harris Perry wrote an op-ed on The Nation’s website today speaking about what she believes to be the “thin, personal” criticisms being thrown the way of President Obama from Professor Cornel West. Here is some of the piece: West’s sense of betrayal is clearly more personal than ideological. In Hedges’s article West […]

The night before the news broke that her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with another woman ten years ago, Maria Shriver and her daughters were taken out to dinner in Chicago by Oprah Winfrey, her boyfriend Stedman Graham and best friend Gayle King at the city’s RL restaurant.  As sisters, we all need that […]

QUEENS, New York– Mabou Loiseau, a five-year-old child prodigy who is home-schooled can speak seven languages, play six instruments, and scored in the 99th percentile on the test for gifted and talented schools in New York City.