New York — Everybody knows how Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, but few have heard how he helped ease racial tensions on one Brooklyn block.
There’s been a recent craze with Facebook as their members Facebook profiles are having cartoon pictures from their past. Unless you have been sleeping under a rock you have heard about the Facebook and everyone trying to get the best cartoon pictures for their profile pictures. Some of the best cartoon pictures have been viewed […]
Washington — Recently several torrent sharing websites including several Hip Hop related ones were shut down by the government. Davey D over at HipHopAnd Politics.com wants to know why. Over the Thanksgiving Holiday something very disturbing took place… Homeland Security along with ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) , the Department of Justice and the National […]
(UNION CITY, CA) Convicted sex offender, Eugene Melendres Ramos was arrested for sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl in a Dollar Tree store in Union City, California. According to KTVU.com, some good Samaritans in the store helped prevent the attack and apprehend the suspect. The girl had her pants and diaper removed and was being straddled […]
From TheGrio Pennsylvania — A sixth grader who hoped his bullet necklace would be ‘patriotic’ was instead suspended from Lafayette Elementary in Bristol Township, Pa. because school officials considered it a weapon. Rob Smith wore the necklace to school for show-and-tell and now his parents fear that the situation has been blown out of proportion.
New York — A Brooklyn infant stopped breathing and died shortly after his aunt gave him over-the-counter cough medicine, a police source said Friday morning.
NEW YORK — The American unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in November and the economy added a paltry 39,000 net jobs, the government reported this morning, dealing a substantial blow to hopes that better fortunes are taking shape. Many economists had been expecting to see the number of jobs rise by about 150,000, amid […]
New Orleans –Michael Hunter, a former New Orleans, Louisiana, police officer who pleaded guilty to covering up police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison, authorities said.
VIA: ESSENCE.COM The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, says she is well and back from a “highly successful surgery.” In a statement released to the Associated Press, Franklin says she had “superb doctors and nurses” who cared for her, though she wouldn’t say what the surgery was for. She also thanked her fans for their […]
Incoming Chancellor Cathie Black made her first foray into public schools Tuesday, meeting and greeting parents, students and teachers at Public School 109 in the Bronx.
VIA: WRAL.COM The country’s most prominent civil rights group has come to Raleigh to draw attention to what it calls a growing erosion of the gains made since a 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregated schools illegal. Using Wake County’s ongoing debate over school diversity as a backdrop, the NAACP is holding a national conference […]
New Jersey — They arrived in the United States from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. But this time, it didn’t happen hundreds of years ago.