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A shocking 45 percent of the nation's estimated 131,000 homeless veterans are African-American, according to a new report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a well-known advocacy and resear

Can you say Taste The Rainbow????

From The Huffington Post Printed on November 7, 2009 President Obama has had a hard time dislodging misperceptions about his health care proposal — those stubborn beliefs that there are death pane

RIVER RIDGE, LOUISIANA--Two suspects have been arrested in the death of Paige DeJean, the 7-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet that ripped through the wall of her River Ridge apartment, authoritie

WALTERBORO, S.C. — A South Carolina mother fruitlessly tried to shield her 20-month-old toddler from a barrage of bullets in a drive-by shooting that killed the baby and two adults and injured at leas

Seven years ago this month, the captured Beltway snipers -- John Allen Muhammad, then 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 -- were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. The

Kordeza Zhelyazkova, an 11 year old girl from Bulgaria, just gave birth to her daughter, making her the world’s youngest mother. While Kordeza and the baby are healthy and in high spirits, Jeliazko, t

A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face. Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed

DETROIT — Hundreds of people offered hushed prayers Saturday at the funeral for a slain Detroit mosque leader while authorities across the border in Canada made the final two arrests in a criminal cas

SALT LAKE CITY – A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald’s has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city. The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they

The death of Derrion Albert, a young man with a promising future, has stunned the city of Chicago and the nation. Captured via cell phone video, the violent assault that took the life of a good young

A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home. Polic

OXFORD, England — Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford. Rolle, 22, established himself

I was reading a post on an Essence.com message board containing some reactions to Chris Rock's Good Hair movie and let me say it left me scratching my head. Before reading the post I was watching a Yo

October 25, 2009. MediaTakeOut.com had to struggle hard to determine whether or not we were even gonna talk about this. But after a long internal debate we figured that, instead of burying our hea

A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers’ conduct, a San Jose

MEMPHIS (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued blunt warnings Oct. 18—commemorating the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March—to the United States government, to the Black

A TEMPORARY THANG I am happy this emptiness right here this emptiness right now is a temporary thang. Happy people cry too even if their tears are confused, missed and taken for laughte

There once was a man who was on his way to work when suddenly one of the front tires of his car blew out. Remembering he had a spare tire in the trunk, he pulled to the side of the road and changed th

Who is more talented...Alicia Keys or Beyonce? Cast your vote below!!!