An Oklahoma City mother was arrested for the ill treatment of her 7-year-old child who she sometimes locked out of the house and recently gave an e-cigarette to smoke to stop talking.
Daphne Steen, 46, was arrested Thursday afternoon on a child ne ...
Posted Saturday, November 23rd 2013 at 7:46PM
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By the current blood test for vitamin D, most African-Americans are deficient. That can lead to weak bones. So many doctors prescribe supplement pills to bring their levels up.
But the problem is with the test, not the patients, according to a new ...
Posted Saturday, November 23rd 2013 at 7:42PM
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WOODLAWN, Md. —A Woodlawn woman said her experience with trying to return a lost cellphone was anything but pleasant, despite her attempt at trying to do a good deed.
"Once we left McDonald's, we were driving past this parking space. We found th ...
Posted Friday, November 22nd 2013 at 1:41PM
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CNN--Psychic Sylvia Browne, who appeared regularly on “The Montel Williams Show” and “Larry King Live,” has passed away. She was 77.
A message posted to Mrs. Browne’s Facebook page said she died at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday morning at Good Sam ...
Posted Wednesday, November 20th 2013 at 8:58PM
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A 28-year-old Chicago woman is being held on $2 million bail after being accused of dragging an 82-year-old man out of his car and beating him after a traffic accident Thursday night on the South Side, police said.
Sophia Body, of the 8100 block o ...
Posted Monday, November 11th 2013 at 11:56AM
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Divorces are never pretty, but this one is pretty ugly. A man from northern China divorced and sued his wife for being ugly. He won $120,000 in the lawsuit and has once again made the world question the validity of phrases like “marriage” and “ ...
Posted Sunday, November 10th 2013 at 6:07PM
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When a well known, or racially suspicious company is known for speaking ill of black people, Many black people will try to justify and defend why they still continue to shop there.
Like when Hollister, Lush Cosemtics, Barneys, Asian Wig stores, an ...
Posted Sunday, November 10th 2013 at 6:05PM
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Family of slain Detroit woman seeks answers about incident
Detroit —The family of a Detroit woman shot to death after she is believed to have sought help at a Dearborn Heights home is calling for answers in the incident.
The family of Renisha ...
Posted Wednesday, November 6th 2013 at 2:43PM
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Teen changes her name from Keisha because she encountered so much prejudice
By JAMES NYE
PUBLISHED: 00:48 EST, 5 November 2013 | UPDATED: 02:11 EST, 5 November 2013
A mixed-race Kansas City teenager called Keisha has changed her name to avoid ...
Posted Wednesday, November 6th 2013 at 11:51AM
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Wanted: White male only.
That’s the job advert, placed on Gumtree by Quest Recruitment Agency on behalf of a cellphone business, which has kicked up a storm of protest, with the agency finding itself fielding accusations of racism.
Ques ...
Posted Monday, November 4th 2013 at 12:50PM
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The president is down in the polls, but on this anniversary of his first election, he has a positive story to tell.
Exactly five years after his election, it's a tough time to take stock of Barack Obama's legacy.
In the same week in which he's ...
Posted Monday, November 4th 2013 at 10:51AM
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CDC Autism Prevalence Findings
Consistent with Vaccine Mercury Role in Autism Increase
CDC tries to explain away rise in disorder, but SafeMinds review shows the numbers are clear on epidemic
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( ...
Posted Monday, November 4th 2013 at 10:46AM
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Gye Nyame --An African Alternative To Thanksgiving
It was the month before the end of an era, Kwanzaa was due, and Europeans across the globe were talking in thinly veiled code of Y2K, a year to a new millennium--Diaspora African spirits were stir ...
Posted Saturday, November 2nd 2013 at 7:01PM
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Unfortunately, too many of us know someone — a family member, friend or colleague — who is affected by breast cancer. In fact, breast cancer accounts for nearly one in three cancers diagnosed in U.S. women, according to the American Cancer Societ ...
Posted Thursday, October 31st 2013 at 12:52PM
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Abner Louima, police brutality victim, to stump for Brooklyn DA candidate Ken Thompson
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS--Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was sodomized by cops in a Brooklyn police station bathroom in 1997 is returning to the borough — ...
Posted Thursday, October 31st 2013 at 12:38PM
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From DemocracyNow.org
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013
As the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation holds protests in several cities today, we bring you the shocking story of Mohamed Bah, ...
Posted Friday, October 25th 2013 at 12:09PM
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The Huffington Post | By Julee Wilson
Posted: 10/24/2013 9:43 am EDT | Updated: 10/24/2013 11:12 am EDT
Less than 24 hours after the news that Barneys and the New York Police Department are being slapped with a discrimination suit by 19-year ...
Posted Thursday, October 24th 2013 at 12:53PM
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GRAMBLING, La. -- Naquan Smith and his Grambling State football teammates have no regrets about a nearly weeklong boycott that forced the university to forfeit its game against Jackson State on Saturday.
Grambling players stood behind Smith Monday ...
Posted Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 at 1:04PM
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Minister Farrakhan has sought medical care for a bacterial infection of unknown origin, and was unable to speak at the 18th annual Million Man March celebration Sunday. Please keep the Honorable Minister and his family in your prayers and your hearts ...
Posted Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 at 12:56PM
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