Actress and singer Audra McDonald made history during the 2014 Tony Awards when she won her sixth Tony for her leading role as Bille Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”. In her moving acceptance speech, McDonald not only thanked her parent ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 2:54PM
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Technology-savvy Grambling State University students help people 50 and older take existing tech skills to higher levels during four-day program
Senior citizens and seasoned citizens wanting to know how to get more out of their smartphones, laptop ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 2:10PM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 12
JUNE 2014
Sao Paulo
Millions of fans love the excitement of the World Cup games. In fact, this is the football of many cultures other than Americans. Although, the world cup games has an American team in the competiti ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 7:24PM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 9
JUNE 2014
Just in case you missed the Miss USA Contest held on June 09, 2014 the beauty winner was from Nevada. Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez took home the crown. This was the 63rd competition. Miss Nevada captured the ju ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 7:09PM
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YOUR WORLD SCIENCE NEWS
DAY 12
JUNE 2014
Will the flares hit the earth?
Scientists are watching the sun and have noticed three bursts of solar flares have been active in the past three days. Solar flares happens when flares of radiation are ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 6:48PM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 12
JUNE 2014
Uttar Pradesh, India
Slight increase in young girls, and or women in areas of the Uttar Pradesh has alarmed more people to report incidents of hangings. Followed by a fourth hanging took place on June 12, 20 ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 6:32PM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 12
JUNE 2014
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Just hours before the opening of the World Cup football there were an opening of protests set at the first day's opening match. A group of demonstrators were gathered but broken up when pol ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 5:15PM
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It's sad whenever I see any black woman in business fail or start to wane because sometimes it is through no fault of her own. It happens daily, I'm sure all around the world or just in this country but it stings. I want us all to succeed whether you ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 10:51PM
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This morning, during my routine perusal of the Internet, I came across an article about Katy Perry’s Prismatic tour. Folks were all in their feelings about Perry’s dancers, who looked like caricatures of Black women. Katy donned a baby blue dress emb ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 10:17PM
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Meriam Ibrahim is not sentenced to die for her Christian faith for two years, until such a time as her newborn baby girl Maya is weaned, but she could be flogged within days if her appeal of her death sentence is thrown out. LifeNews recently covered ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:44PM
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Miracle baby, three months later: She is happy, healthy and loved. Robin Cyr’s fourth child has already packed a lifetime’s worth of emotional turmoil into her first 28 minutes in the world. Cyr, 34, was told her baby girl had died just after being ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:36PM
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(Washington, DC) The family of Jahi McMath is posting on social media, asking supporters to contact her charter school to ask them to grant the eighth-grader a diploma this week. Jahi, diagnosed as brain-dead, was the center of a tremendous battle b ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:10PM
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In a case that is beginning to resemble the battle over Terri Schiavo, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel S. Murphy ruled that the daughter of radio announcer Casey Kasum can starve and dehydrate him to death by having his food and fluids remove ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:05PM
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Halle Berry is going to need the paycheck she's getting from her upcoming TV series Extant. The Oscar-winning actress has been ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay $16,000 a month in child support to her former beau Gabriel Aubry, People reports.
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Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 6:25PM
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The story of one FCS coach's mixed martial arts debut isn't necessarily new -- this Daytona Beach News-Journal report is dated May 31 -- but it's interesting enough that it demands sharing anyway.
43-year-old Bethune-Cookman coach Brian Jenkins en ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 6:15PM
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