We are all heartbroken by the senseless shooting today in Newtown, Connecticut. The magnitude of this tragedy is incomprehensible, with so many innocent lives lost.
To the families and community of Sandy Hook Elementary – we share in your grief ...
Posted Saturday, December 15th 2012 at 10:19PM
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SEATTLE — Following the tragic shooting in Connecticut, many parents around the country are left with the difficult task of talking to their children about the horrific tragedy.
Psychiatrists at the Seattle Children’s Hospital have released a ...
Posted Friday, December 14th 2012 at 9:04PM
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Siebra Muhammad is a native New Orleanian. She currently holds an Associates Degree from Delgado Community College in New Orleans, LA. A registration specialist with the New Orleans Public School Systems, she is now planning to add author to her resu ...
Posted Friday, December 14th 2012 at 12:11PM
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In her best-selling book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander argues that the nation's trillion-dollar "War on Drugs" and "tough on crime" political rhetoric have resulted in mass incarceration ...
Posted Thursday, December 13th 2012 at 1:28PM
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Graves of Dozens of African-American Boys Among Those Found at Florida Reform School
Authorities have found nearly 100 unmarked graves at a Florida reform school where students were reportedly beaten, murdered, and even raped.
It was originally ...
Posted Thursday, December 13th 2012 at 1:19PM
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About Henriette Delille:
Henriette Delille was born in New Orleans in 1813. Her father was a white man and her mother a "free person of color," of mixed race. Both were Roman Catholics. Her parents could not be married under Louisiana law, but the ...
Posted Tuesday, December 11th 2012 at 1:50PM
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9:48AM EST December 6. 2012 - Look out: Here comes another Clinton vs. Obama race.
Make that Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama, and the contest is for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
The former president — who has already won two o ...
Posted Friday, December 7th 2012 at 12:35PM
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DigitalJournal.com-- With cold and flu season approaching, we start hearing more and more about the flu vaccine. What we do not hear about are the potential hazards ingredients of the vaccine can cause.
According to the Center for Disease Control ...
Posted Friday, December 7th 2012 at 12:01PM
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The Crucifixion of Kasandra Perkins:Victim Blaming, Black Maternal Homicide and Stupidity
Monday, December 3, 2012 at 6:11AM by The Blogmother
Folks couldn’t even wait for the body of Kasandra Perkins to be lowered into the ground before they ...
Posted Wednesday, December 5th 2012 at 11:28PM
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In this video message, Dr. Ray Hagins once again talks about the origins of many of the holidays we celebrate and how they have been incorporated in Christianity. Among other things he talks about:
1) the creation of Christmas and how the Bibl ...
Posted Wednesday, December 5th 2012 at 11:22PM
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Scammers Lurk Behind Area Code 876
Your phone rings and caller ID shows an 876 area code. While it appears the call is coming from the US, be cautious with this Jamaican area code. If you do not have friends, relatives, or business associates in J ...
Posted Wednesday, December 5th 2012 at 7:43PM
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DALLAS, December 4, 2012 - CNN’s Roland Martin featured Fox Sports writer Jason Whitlock on his podcast this week. Whitlock, the writer Bob Costas credited for his revelation that America’s “gun culture” was responsible for Kansas City Chief player Jovan Belcher’s murder-suicide, likened the Nationa ...
Posted Wednesday, December 5th 2012 at 2:18PM
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Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Suddenly Skyrocket
http://www.techyville.com/2012/11/news/ ... skyrocket/
If you don’t believe that racism in the job market is real, then please read this article by Yolanda Spivey. Spi ...
Posted Wednesday, December 5th 2012 at 1:38PM
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Essence.com--Oprah Winfrey took 5,000 audience members, including her best friend Gayle King, for a wild ride recently when she announced she suffered a breast cancer scare, reports The New York Times.
The queen of media took to the stage of O ma ...
Posted Tuesday, December 4th 2012 at 12:28PM
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North America's 1st Black Town?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: It was founded during slavery, and it wasn't in the U.S. South.
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.|Posted: December 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM
(The Root) -- Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 8: ...
Posted Monday, December 3rd 2012 at 7:48PM
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34 Signs That America Is In Decline
November 29th, 2012
#1 According to the World Bank, U.S. GDP accounted for 31.8 percent of all global economic activity in 2001. That number dropped to 21.6 percent in 2011. That is not just a decline - that is ...
Posted Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 1:48PM
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Reports are still coming in regarding a tragedy involving the Kansas City Chiefs, but here's what we know at this time. Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend at a house near the team's facility on Saturday morning. Yahoo Spor ...
Posted Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 1:45PM
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LAS VEGAS--Joe Jackson, father of the late Michael Jackson, is expected to be released today from a hospital in Las Vegas after suffering a minor stroke.
The 83-year-old pop-music-family patriarch began experiencing weakness on Wednesday while wal ...
Posted Friday, November 30th 2012 at 12:39PM
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