New York– Tight hair braiding or weaving may contribute to a type of permanent hair loss that commonly affects African American women, a new study has found. Also read: 7 Celebrity Eye Makeup Looks To Steal [PHOTOS]
TheGrio.Com’s Janelle Richards is reporting that a former gay employee of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition has filed a discrimination complaint against Jackson and numerous staff members. The lawsuit was filed in early 2010 with the Chicago Commission on Human Rights by Tommy R. Bennett. The 55-year-old Bennett is an openly gay man who […]
DETROIT- The manager for the Detroit Public Schools has sent layoff notices to all of the district’s 5,466 unionized employees to solve their financial emergency .
New York — Prep student turned gang-banger Afrika Owes is receiving help from members of the Abyssinian Baptist Church who raised $25,000 cash bail for the release of the 17-year-old from Rikers Island. RELATED: Are you suffering from frugal fatigue? Owes has been at Rikers since mid-February, when she and 14 other alleged gang members […]
WASHINGTON – Republicans portray Planned Parenthood as primarily focused on performing abortions and — intentionally or not — using American taxpayer dollars to do it. RELATED: 25 women to know Not so, say Democrats who counter that the group’s 800-plus health centers nationwide provide an array of services, from screenings for cancer to testing for […]
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.– A 29-year-old man was shot 16 times on the street shortly before 3 p.m. yesterday and survived, police said.
TOKYO — Workers at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant on Wednesday finally halted a leak that was sending a tide of radioactive water into the Pacific and exacerbating concerns over the safety of seafood, the operator said.
What if I told you that the largest slave rebellion in American history was one no one knows about? Well, we commemorate the successful end of one such rebellion 173 years ago this week… Some of you may have heard of the Black Seminoles, the free blacks and fugitive slaves who allied with Seminole Indians […]
Atlanta — Bernice King called into one of our radio sites, Praise 102.5, and spoke with Rhodell Lewis today on what is the 43rd death anniversary of her father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Saying that today is a sad day for her on a lot of fronts, she talked about all of the problems […]
PHILADELPHIA-Mahlon Graham, a 5th grader from Philadelphia has been named a hero for alerting authorities about a fire that trapped several senior citizens. The Fire Commissioner in Philadelphia has already called him a hero. View more videos at: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com. RELATED STORIES Mother Dies After Saving Children From Townhouse Fire 8-Year-Old Dies Trying To Save Baby […]
New York– The Secret Service is investigating a data heist that is being called the largest data heist in history.
The man accused of being behind the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X by the late author Manning Marable in his new biography “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention denies any involvement. In his major new biography “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” author Manning Marable, claims William Bradley, who many people over the years have […]
