Earlier this week, a lone hacker—self-dubbed Guccifer 2.0—breached DNC servers and reportedly obtained opposition research on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. The DNC confirmed the hack and hasn’t denied the authen ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2016 at 2:33PM
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From DemocracyNow.org
June 07, 2016
In California, Black Lives Matter activist Jasmine Richards faces up to four years in prison at her sentencing today after she was convicted of a rarely used statute in California law known up until recentl ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2016 at 6:05PM
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Watch the short clip, notice how the interviewee is cut off when he mentions that more than one person was involved.
You surely noted that in the interview above, the man begins to reveal one of the most important details to surface in the Or ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2016 at 5:56PM
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. ¡X Thousands mourned boxing legend and humanitarian Muhammad Ali, a man who held Islam close to his heart, in a hometown service Thursday honoring ¡§the people¡¦s champ.¡¨
The Muslim funeral service at Freedom Hall in the K ...
Posted Thursday, June 9th 2016 at 9:34PM
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A Detroit man who was incarcerated after being wrongly convicted of four murders is walking free today, after serving nearly nine years of a sentence he received at the age of 15.
The murder convictions for Davontae Sanford, now 23, have been vac ...
Posted Thursday, June 9th 2016 at 9:25PM
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In The Name Of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful
I bear witness there is no god but Allah
And I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger
As-Salaam Alaikum!
Statement from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the passing of Muhammad Al ...
Posted Wednesday, June 8th 2016 at 1:34PM
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In a commencement address on Friday at City College in New York City, First Lady Michelle Obama raised more than a few eyebrows when she referred to the White House as “a house that was built by slaves”.
Though she did not mention Republican f ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:46PM
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By VICE News
June 3, 2016 | 1:10 pm
Police in Chicago released more than 100 videos from pending investigations on Friday — including footage of police shootings and incidents of brutality — as part of a new effort by the embattled departmen ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:36PM
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It has been widely argued that the multiple head injuries Muhammad Ali sustained during his boxing career could have caused his Parkinson's disease. In reality, the science behind it is much more nuanced.
Experts' theories vary on whether head tr ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:32PM
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LOS ANGELES--Donald Trump has been accused of “hypocrisy” for his tributes to Muhammad Ali, as Bernie Sanders criticised those who praise the boxing legend while being "prejudiced against Muslims in this country".
After publically calling for ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:25PM
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NEW YORK--Afeni Shakur Davis, mother of late rap legend Tupac Shakur who was the subject of one of his most iconic songs and who oversaw his posthumous legacy, has died. She was 69 years old.
Marin County deputies responded to Shakur’s home in S ...
Posted Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 at 9:23AM
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Prince—The Essence Of Beauty
A tribute from Minister Louis Farrakhan
In everything that Allah (God) created, there are lessons to be learned. There is exquisite beauty in the flowers, in the rocks, in the birds, in the beasts, in the fish and ...
Posted Friday, April 29th 2016 at 10:29PM
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Twelve people have said they witnessed a local police department's fatal shooting of a black motorist over the weekend, but none has stepped forward to say what they saw, a Florida sheriff investigating the death said Monday.
St. Lucie County Sher ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2016 at 9:44PM
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Prince’s ex-fiancée, Sheila Escovedo, is determined to find out the cause of the legendary singer’s death. The star reportedly suffered with the flu several weeks before his death, but Shelia E., as she is better known, doesn’t think that’s ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2016 at 7:02PM
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A few hundred South Dallas residents, mostly black, flooded Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to oppose a planned demonstration by a mostly white group that routinely protests outside mosques.
Both sides were armed.
Dallas police stood guard on ...
Posted Sunday, April 3rd 2016 at 8:53PM
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — The recent arrest of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee in Crown Heights was unjustified, racially motivated and “could have been another Eric Garner situation," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said a ...
Posted Tuesday, March 29th 2016 at 10:48AM
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On Saturday, a 25-year-old Virginia woman named India M. Beaty was shot and killed by local police officers in a parking lot, where cops were staking out an unrelated investigation. At 1:20 a.m., police witnessed an altercation between India and an u ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2016 at 7:00PM
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Motivational speaker Eric Thomas’s speech to Vashon High School students in St. Louis last month has gone viral over his reaction to a group of students who kept interrupting him.
Thomas begins by telling the crowd his story.
He dropped o ...
Posted Friday, March 18th 2016 at 11:42AM
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“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson will play mathematics genius Katherine Johnson in “Hidden Figures” for Fox 2000.
The studio has been developing the adaptation of the Margot Lee Shetterly book “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-Amer ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:15PM
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Decades before Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party she was years ahead of her time. So why don't more people know about her?
Forty-four years ago th ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:01PM
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The trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are set to resume in May, nearly a year after the 25-year-old died from injuries sustained while in police custody, according to The Baltimore Sun.
One of the office ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 8:53PM
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NOLA.com--Nearly 5,000 homes in Louisiana have been damaged by flooding after heavy rains swept across the state, according to initial figures released Sunday (March 13) by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Offici ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:28PM
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JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - The City of Jackson and the Mississippi State Health Department have issued a warning for residents, especially pregnant women and children, over lead found in water.
Officials at the MSDH say that after consu ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:00PM
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In January, Sarah Reed was found dead in her cell at Holloway prison. She had been the victim of a notorious police brutality case in 2012 and suffered mental health issues known to prison officers, doctors, social workers, lawyers and police. So why ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2016 at 6:21PM
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