Ray Charles alleged mistress Marci Soto, has penned a memoir entitled “Ray & Me,” where she dishes some very private secrets and even admits to robbing the blind soul star!
Soto writes that even though the pair were both married to other people wh ...
Posted Monday, March 28th 2011 at 3:08PM
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Trace amounts of radiation from damaged nuclear-power facilities in Japan have been detected in rainwater in the U.S., but pose no health risks, officials said.
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nevada and other Western states are among the states that ...
Posted Monday, March 28th 2011 at 3:07PM
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A deaf Texan is accused of channelling his inner Mike Tyson and chomping off part of another deaf man's ear during a night of mayhem, police said Monday.
And that was before 26-year-old Davon Stewart got flattened by an SUV - and busted out of a H ...
Posted Monday, March 28th 2011 at 2:57PM
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Velvet-voiced chanteuse Sade will release The Ultimate Collection on May 3rd.
In addition to classics, the two-disc album will include three new, never-before heard songs including "Moon & The Sky," which features Jay-Z.
The track listing wil ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 7:27PM
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The following writing is by Lindsay Turner, a 13 year old student at Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania:
If one looked at Booker T. Washington while he was a slave living in Virginia, the thought of him becoming one of the most famous Af ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 4:59PM
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President Obama is making another gold rush to New York - except this cash bash will be his first north of 125th St.
On Tuesday, Obama will be the headliner for a $30,800-per-head Democratic National Committee fund-raiser at Harlem's trendy Red Ro ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 4:51PM
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As demonstrations took place across the country to mark the eighth anniversary of the "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq, bombs and missiles began raining down on the people of Libya. The ANSWER Coalition immediately put out a call for protests to take ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 4:46PM
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No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 5:00PM
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The Nobel Peace Prize that Barack Obama won in 2009 is back in the news again, now that American forces are involved in military action against the Libyan government.
Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work eliminatin ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 4:01PM
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CALIFORNIA--It was not only a full house, but an overflowing crowd, at Moorpark High School’s performing arts center when Myrlie Evers-Williams spoke there Thursday evening.
The audience was young and old, white and black, and the anticipation was ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 3:48PM
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Newsweek.com--Supporting Oil prices advanced again Wednesday as the U.S. and its allies reportedly continued air strikes in Libya and new data showed U.S. gasoline demand continues to rise despite sharp price increases at the pump.
May light sweet ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:57AM
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FORT LAUDERDALE- A South Florida Catholic school teacher is being reprimanded after making an insensitive comment to an African-American student.
According to the student - a Cardinal Gibbons 9th grader who asked that we identify him as Kaylan - h ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:54AM
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Some advocates for racial equality are criticizing the selection of Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker for an annual convention of civil rights veterans in Mississippi.
Farrakhan leads the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, w ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:48AM
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TENNESSEE--A world-renown scholar, author and political activist, Angela Davis, urged students to ask questions when she spoke to a crowded room Tuesday night in the James Union Building.
The lecture was part of National Women's History Month obse ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 12:02PM
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Paris Hilton's representatives have denied that the actress made racist comments in an interview.
Neil Strauss, author of Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness, claims that Hilton, who is currently preparing a new rea ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 11:57AM
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An attorney for a New Orleans police sergeant charged with shooting unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge is asking a judge to drop the murder charges against his client due to alleged prosecutorial missteps.
Frank DeSalvo, who represents Sgt ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 11:51AM
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A love-starved 92-year-old woman in Florida shot up her neighbor's house after he refused to kiss her, local police said.
Helen Staudinger told police in Marion County that she went over to neighbor Dwight Bettner's house on Monday and refused to ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 1:44PM
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From BlackAgendaReport.com
March 19, 2011
“The West dearly wishes to appropriate to itself a section of the ‘Arab revolt,’ so as to bomb an evil ‘dictator’ on their behalf.”
The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to authorize a “no-fly zone ...
Posted Sunday, March 20th 2011 at 4:10PM
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