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// Business owners are an integral part of the Black community. They help uplift our people economically, and serve as role models so that future generations know they can achieve real success as entrepreneurs. Are you a Black business owner making an impact in your community? Know someone who is? Tell them about this great […]
From ChicagoBreakingNews.com: About 700 students gathered in front of Chicago Public Schools headquarters this morning to protest drastic budget cuts which they say they are already starting to feel. “It started with JV sports, then they started cutting teachers – What’s next?” asked Somyiah Nance, a 15-year-old freshman at Whitney Young High School. The students […]
(CNN) — As the voice of opposition to Arizona’s controversial immigration law gets louder, the state’s reputation can expect to take a hit. Critics of the law are calling for economic boycotts of Arizona, urging corporations and organizations to refrain from holding conventions in the state. They’re also pressuring Major League Baseball to take its […]
// From The New York Daily News Former Giants great Lawrence Taylor was arrested Thursday in Rockland County in connection with the reported rape of a 15-year-old girl, sources said. Taylor allegedly beat and sexually assaulted the girl and has been charged with third-degree rape, the Journal News was reporting. He will be arraigned Thursday […]
VIA AOL BLACKVOICES: Phillip Sciarello, a publisher and part owner of the Smithtown Messenger in Long Island, is defending his newspaper after a picture appeared that some believe to be a racist stereotype of the First Family. The picture depicts President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as characters from “Sanford and Son.” The public backlash […]
// From the NY Times: WASHINGTON — American officials said Wednesday that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American […]
Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over the French army in 1862’s Battle of Puebla. While the holiday doesn’t have great significance in Mexico, in the United States Cinco de Mayo is a widely acknowledged as day to to recognize and celebrate Mexican culture and pride. Recently, however, Mexican-Americans and other Latinos in […]
From EOnline.com: If you’ve already bought wedding and baby presents for Usher, you might as well return them. The internet was popping with rumors today that the Grammy-winning crooner and his rumored-to-be girlfriend Grace Miguel are not only engaged, but also expecting their first child together. But those rumors seem to have been greatly exaggerated… […]
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many man-made environmental disasters that this country has produced in its history. Before the recent oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico had plenty of environmental issues. There is actually an area of the gulf that is considered a “dead zone” that is the […]
// From CNN: The Cumberland River is receding in swamped Nashville, Tennessee, but Music City faces a long recovery from the historic flooding. The floods left landmarks, homes and businesses underwater in the country music capital. Text continues after gallery … At least 27 deaths were blamed on flooding in the Southeast, 18 of them […]
From My Fox DC: WASHINGTON – A young college student claims she was shot by a man because she refused to give him her phone number. The young woman, whose identity has been protected, told police she was leaving a party in southeast Washington early Sunday when a man asked for her number. Text continues […]
Heavy storms and flooding killed at least 29 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky, damaged thousands of homes and threatened the heart of Nashville’s tourism district. Tennessee was the hardest hit, as muddy waters continued rising in the central and western parts of the state after as much as 18 inches of rain fell over […]
