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The video-taped beating of 16-year-old Chad Holley had me fuming. It's one thing when police use excessive force, but this video was startling for at least a couple of reasons. First, the kid is only

Oakland rapper Zoe Tha Roasta won a $300,000 lawsuit Thursday after being wrongfully accused and serving jail time for a crime he did not commit.The city of Oakland, California agreed to settle the la

Black History Month Black History Month http://www.bvnewswire.com/2011/01/14/nene-leakes-star-jones-celebrity-apprentice/ Urban Prep Academy Gets 100% Black Male College Attendance... Again Urban Pr

"The whole sneaky, back stabbing, forming alliances, I just don't like...she may have a new body, but she doesn't have a new brain. You still think the same even though you lose weight so I don't know

Star Jones is one of the cast of characters vying to be Donald Trump's new 'Celebrity Apprentice' when the NBC reality show premieres on March 6. Buzz about the upcoming season is high as media sto

HENDERSON, Nev. – The hands that once caused so much fear, that once scrambled the brains of highly trained men, which caused elite professionals to cower in fear, now gently, tenderly, caress a pigeo

Congressional Black Caucus staffer: CBC members are “actively shilling” for for-profit colleges http://bit.ly/eIPic7 Give our children the opportunities they deserve May 01 2009 Gangs have

Keeping affordable housing available More than 14,000 ColorOfChange members call on the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to drop its lawsuit against residents of the St. Bernard public

uan Baten came to this country from Guatemala seven years ago in search of a better life. A bus in Cabral, Guatemala, hit his father so Baten left home at the age of 15, to make the journey north. He

President Obama sent his proposed budget for next year to Capitol Hill this week. But before lawmakers deal with that spending blueprint, they first have to settle a big fight over how to keep the fed

You can officially call New York City the “Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World,” according to a new report from the Drug Policy Alliance. Not only do low-level pot possession offenses make up the nu

Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Akron, Ohio, woman who served nine days in jail for lying to get her children into a better school system, was released earlier this week. But the controversy over the cas

Change is finally coming to one of the nation’s notoriously overcrowded prison systems. Last week the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to pass an ordinance authorizing the construction o

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth. - Yoruba proverb We can become so consumed with trying to make it that we never do. Unfortunately, be

Basketball has long been a staple of Hollywood films and television. The sport is full of so much inherent drama that it lends itself extremely well to narrative art -- just stick on a love interest a

Six years ago, Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert bought the Cleveland Cavaliers for $375 million. If Gilbert wanted to sell it today, one sports investment banker, who requested anonymity because he h

Infidelity is not something that should be condoned, but it is understood that it's unfortunately a reality of life. People cheat, get cheated on and a lot of times get caught cheating. Therefore, the

Thirty-seven-year-old Rashida Anderson had decided enough was enough. After her son was accused of stealing a laptop from his school, they argued for over an hour on November 26, 2010, before she f

"We used to have Jackie O," and "now we have Blackie O!" Joan Rivers proclaimed on the Howard Stern radio show today in her commentary about first lady Michelle Obama's style. Rivers said she was goin

The Atlanta Post Reports that the AFRO-American Newspaper has joined forces with Google to digitize its archives, making them searchable and available to anyone, anywhere in the world. The AFRO-Ame

AOL Black Voices reports that coach Jason Popp may see his entire undefeated basketball team at Richmond Heights High School in Ohio boycott the rest of their games after he allegedly used foul langua

JetBlue Fight Attendant Steven Slater http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/blackest-white-folks-we-know# Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that Slater is the JetBlue flight attendant w

It is perhaps inevitable that the kind of news that sticks with us most is the kind that makes you go, "Now it's on!" or "Wouldn't you know?" But the good news is important, too, and not just because

Black Americans have played a vital role in building this nation. Eager to live and prosper as free people, we have established our own towns since Colonial times. Many of these communities were destr