Arkansas– Scientists investigating the death of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas say they’ve identified the cause of death: blunt force trauma.
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Texas — First lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that the military’s push to turn recruits into health-conscious warriors could be a model for making people across the U.S. more focused on fitness and nutrition. Obama, who has made battling childhood obesity one of her signature causes as first lady, visited the Army’s largest training post […]
LANCASTER, PA-McCaskey East High School in Lancaser, Pennslyvania is experimenting with having separate homerooms for African American Students in order to boost African American academic performance. Lancaster Online reports: The idea originated with Angela Tilghman, a McCaskey East instructional coach who was alarmed at the poor academic performance of the school’s black students. Only about […]
California– Gladys Horton gave Motown Records its first No. 1 hit, as the lead voice of the Marvelettes on the 1961 classic “Please Mr. Postman.” She spent the last several decades of her life in a frustrating attempt to get the group’s name back, after Motown sold it to a promoter who assigned it to […]
Ohio — Kelley Williams-Bolar was released from the Summit County Jail Wednesday morning after serving all but one day of a 10-day jail sentence for improperly enrolling her children in Copley-Fairlawn schools. A jail official confirmed Williams-Bolar was released at about 10 a.m. Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove gave Williams-Bolar credit for one day of […]
VIA: CNN.COM The sisters Kardashian — Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe — don’t have to spend millions on focus groups and dynamic PR strategists to get noticed: Twitter does it for them. MORE
VIA: ESSENCE.COM Today Michelle Obama will be Oprah Winfrey’s special guest as the two honor military families. They will discuss the sacrifices families make when their husbands, wives, brothers and sisters go to war. MORE
VIA: ESSENCE.COM Remember back in the day, when most girls weren’t allowed to wear makeup until their sixteenth birthday? If Walmart has their way, girls as young as eight will soon be rocking smoky eyes on playdates! In February, the mega-chain is debuting GeoGirl, a new makeup collection targeted for eight to twelve-year-olds. The line […]
New York– Comedienne Joan Rivers revealed she once ditched a joke about First Lady Michelle Obama from her stand-up routine — because she feared she’d be accused of racism.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich – The family of the serial rapist suspect apologizes for the suffering of innocent women. They told FOX 2 they’re now putting their faith in the legal system to deliver justice for them and the victims. “When he was just out here for the last two years, I really was just getting to […]
Akron — Yesterday and today, Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere have been hopping with news about an Akron, Ohio mom jailed for sending her daughters to school in a suburban district where she did not live. Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single mom living in public housing, was sentenced to 10 days of jail, three years of […]