Bought a new laptop recently (a Gateway which runs on Windows 8) and the Norton anti-virus protection expired. I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials to my computer and now EVERY TIME I go from page to page all of these different pop-up ads appea ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 5:33PM
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From National Public Radio
June 12, 2014
Rashema Melson lives in the D.C. General homeless shelter with her mother and two brothers. "Because you live in a shelter — that's not who you are, that's just where you reside at for the moment," she s ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 8:50PM
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RUBY DEE LEGENDARY ACTRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST DIES AT 89
47 MINUTES AGO BY TMZ STAFF
Ruby Dee -- one of the legendary actresses in Hollywood and on Broadway -- died Wednesday night ... TMZ has learned.
Ruby was at home in New Rochelle, ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 12:56PM
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DES MOINES--An Iowa mother said this week that the Des Moines school board may have gone easy on a white teacher who told her black son to call him “master.”
Roosevelt High School student Jabre White, 17, recalled to The Des Moines Register th ...
Posted Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at 12:00PM
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DISCLAIMER: This is the last speech that Dr. King wrote, He was planning to deliver that speech during a Sunday sermon on April 7, 1968. he was shot and killed before he had a chance to deliver this speech. Dr Michael Eric Dyson has researched Dr. Ki ...
Posted Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at 10:32AM
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NEW ORLEANS -- Herman Cain, who ended his 2012 presidential campaign amid allegations of multiple affairs, said Saturday that he might run for president again in 2016.
Cain, in a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference here, brought up the ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 6:09PM
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The Huffington Post--The last few years have been tough for Rachel Jeantel. After the death of her friend, Trayvon Martin, she not only had to serve as a witness at his shooter's trial, but she was also subjected to public criticism and ridicule. But the young woman refused to be held down, keeping ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 6:04PM
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ABCNews--It's official: La Toya Jackson and longtime business partner Jeffré Phillips are engaged, and it looks like her husband-to-be started things off on the right foot with her family.
Cameras have been capturing the budding relationship ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 6:36PM
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Former R&B bad boy Bobby Brown is reinventing himself as a barbecue connoisseur with the launch of his own collection of sauces, seasonings and mixes.
The New Edition star reveals cooking has always been a passion of his and he is now turning his ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 6:28PM
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DailyMail.com--A United Airlines flight from Nashville to Houston was forced to turn around on Sunday after a 43-year-old woman threatened another passenger who asked her to turn her cell phone off.
Lashonda Lee Williams, 43, is alleged to have to ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 6:19PM
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LAS VEGAS--At least three people have been killed in a mass shooting inside Walmart at North Nellis and Stewart in Las Vegas, Local media reported.
According to KTNV, two police officers were said to have been shot at a local CiCi’s pizza in the ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 6:10PM
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From SocialistWorker.org
June 6, 2014
When will James Earl Rivera Jr. get justice?
Just one day before his 17th birthday, on July 22, 2010, James Earl Rivera Jr. died in a hail of 48 rounds fired by three Stockton, Calif., police officers afte ...
Posted Friday, June 6th 2014 at 11:53AM
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WASHINGTON--Seating will be limited for Maya Angelou’s private memorial service at the campus of Wake Forest University on Saturday, officials said. But in another sense, the entire world has been invited — the proceedings will be live-streamed, ...
Posted Thursday, June 5th 2014 at 12:10PM
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June 2, 2014
As-Salaam Alaikum.
(Peace Be Unto You)
To the Family, Friends, and all those who have been touched by the marvelous life of Dr. Maya Angelou:
When I heard the news of her passing, I was in the hospital having an MRI. When I g ...
Posted Wednesday, June 4th 2014 at 9:00AM
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TOPEKA, Kansas - The highly-controversial Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket Maya Angelou’s funeral.
According to WGHP, the group asked its Twitter followers for information about Angelou’s services as well as tweeted several hatefu ...
Posted Sunday, June 1st 2014 at 4:11PM
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CAIRO – Making history for the second time, an American Muslim woman is running for the Congress, aiming to advocate women's rights and underserved people by picking a seat at the 11th congressional district of California.
“The diverse 11th Co ...
Posted Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 2:47PM
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By ROGER SIMON | 5/28/14 5:01 AM EDT
CHICAGO — The lion in winter walks into the room. His sideburns and mustache have gone gray. There is a little excess baggage beneath his chin. But Jesse Jackson’s stride is still firm and his handshake fir ...
Posted Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 12:31PM
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FAREWELL TO MAYA ANGELOU
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
On the pulse of a May morning
a brave and startling truth
who knew why the caged bird sings left us
The rock cries out to us
for a phenomenal woman
who taught us to take time out
and lea ...
Posted Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 12:02PM
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