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 16 years old, and kids that age don't deserve this ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 11:58PM
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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 lawsuit with Zoe, whose real name is Lorenzo Hall, a ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 11:56PM
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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 Prep Academy Gets 100% Black Male College Attendance ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 11:54PM
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"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."
--'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star NeNe Lea ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 11:52PM
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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 stories surrounding an alleged on-camera feud between ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 11:51PM
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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 pigeon.
Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion of t ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 11:24PM
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Congressional Black Caucus staffer: CBC members are “actively shilling” for for-profit colleges http://bit.ly/eIPic7
Give our children the opportunities they deserve
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Gangs have plagued Black communities across the country for d ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 11:45PM
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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 housing development in New Orleans, who returned t ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 11:37PM
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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 made his way to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he found wor ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 11:36PM
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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 federal government's lights burning for the rest of t ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 11:33PM
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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 number one reason for arrest in the city, 86 percent ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 4:11PM
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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 case appears to be growing. Williams-Bolar's felony c ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 4:03PM
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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 of a new jail that’s much smaller than what had pre ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 3:45PM
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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, before we know it, we are seated by age, hardened by ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 2:30PM
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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 and some kind of emotional arc and you've found a h ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 2:11AM
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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 helps clients buy and sell sports teams, told CNBC ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:39AM
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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 name of the game is to learn from your mistakes a ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:28AM
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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 finally took away his Play Station, according to th ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:23AM
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"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 going to tell the joke onstage, but held back because ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:21AM
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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-American Newspaper is the oldest African-American fam ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:19AM
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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 language and racial slurs against his players.
Many o ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:17AM
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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 who went off on passengers with his expletive-fille ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:13AM
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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 it's sweet to look on the bright side, but because ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:11AM
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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 destroyed by racial violence or injustice, while some j ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 1:07AM
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