Melissa Etheridge says she has enjoyed getting in touch with her punk side as she prepares to temporarily replace Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong in the American Idiot Broadway musical.
New York– Authorities say a crafty group of people ran an ID theft operation, buying at least a million dollars worth of iPads and other Apple products on their victims tab- sometimes even run from behind bars.
New York — The Dakota, the legendary New York apartment building, has long been famous for its celebrity residents, including Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall and John Lennon. But it is also well known for having among the most restrictive co-op boards in Manhattan, having turned down would-be buyers including Billy Joel, Cher and the acting […]
HOUSTON- Video has been released of Houston Police brutally beating a Houston teenager who surrendered after being chased by authorities. In the video, police kick and punch then 15-year-old Chad Holley, who does not fight back, multiple times. Holley laid motionless on the ground while a group of cops descended upon him. Holley was a […]
FLORIDA-Antonio D. Drayton has been charged with the murder of Saleha Huuda a University of Florida cheerleader. An accomplice, Cassandra Kimbrough, was also charged in her death. Drayton and Huuda had been romantically linked and Drayton had been accused by battering Huuda but she dropped the charges. The Florida Independent Alligator reports: Drayton and Kimbrough […]
New York — A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars – including Jackie Robinson and James Brown – became a historic district Tuesday on the first day of Black History Month.
VIA: WRAL.COM Capitol police have blocked off several streets in downtown Raleigh as they investigate a suspicious package in a mailbox, state authorities said Wednesday morning. Several people trying mail letters found a package stuck in the slot in a mailbox on North Street, near Wilmington Street, said Patty McQuillan, spokeswoman for the state Department of […]
NEW YORK-After the Tuscon tragedy, activist Al Sharpton has called on the FCC to regulate racism on the radio, particularly Rush Limbaugh. The Hill Reports: We’re not telling Rush don’t say what he wants to say. Say it at home,” Sharpton said in December. “Don’t get on publicly regulated radio and television that are selectively […]
VIA: CNN.COM Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his hovel Wednesday and saw his shadow, which — according to tradition — means that spring will come early this year. Phil, whose first name comes from the Pennsylvania town where he lives, emerged at 7:20 a.m. ET and hung out with the well-dressed gentlemen presiding over the […]
Last year, Vanity Fair found themselves in hot water after releasing a “lily-white” actresses cover for their ’09 New Hollywood issue. Many African Americans in the entertainment community felt disrespected by the idea that the magazine couldn’t find any viable Black actors or actresses on the cover. This year, things have changed as the people […]
Ohio — On Monday grand theft charges were dismissed against Kelley Williams-Bolar and her father, Edward Williams, in the school residency case that has outraged the nation. But both still face felony counts of tampering with records, and the case continues to be a key part of the national debate over education reform. The 40-year-old […]
NEW JERSEY-In a stunt reminiscent of James O’Keefe’s Fake Pimp prank on ACORN, a young African American male visited planned Planned Parenthood and told them about his underage sex workers and received advice on how to have them treated for STD’s, while the woman that they talked with, Amy Woodruff, told them how to avoid […]