This whole post depends on a link so I’m going to post the link naked. If it does not appear in the trademark blue of a link that you can click your cursor on as transport, copy the link and paste it in your browser. You MUST see this Youtube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAfXNzXueE&NR=1 […]
Time Magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin has been under fire for calling President Obama a “D**k” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last week. Writer Michelle Goldberg says Halperin’s actions were in part due to him “being so cowed by conservatives that he’s offended by Obama’s mild poke at the GOP.” She continues: His response embodies all that’s […]
Baltimore businessman William Lloyd Adams has died at the age of 87. Adams, who began his career as a number runner, graduated to becoming the city’s first prominent Black venture capitalist, bankrolling numerous black-owned businesses. He died of pneumonia last week. Read more at The Root RELATED: 15-year-old whiz kid graduates from Baltimore University
The final launch of Atlantis on July 8 will mark the end of the American space era, where six of these unique spacecrafts flew 135 missions. Of those missions, 20 African-Americans earned the title “Astronaut,” and 13 actually went to space. The Root honors these distinct men and women in a biographical gallery. See The […]
A new article on TheGrio talks about the viral phenomenon that has hit the mainstream called planking. Planking is when people either lay on an object or on top of each other with their face down, usually in a public place, and then post the photos online. It became a craze after a 20-year-old fell […]
Sapulpa, OK — A burning cross was planted in front of St. John’s Baptist Church, which has a predominately Black congregation in Oklahoma this past week. The church was previously burglarized and vandalized. The Grio Reports: The Creek County Sherriff’s office took pictures and collected evidence from the scene but no arrests have been made. […]
NEW YORK —Kenneth Montgomery, lawyer for the “Monumental 5,” the group of hip-hop party-goers who allege that they were victims of racially motivated police brutality at a concert here last week, said the unprovoked violence was the result of overly aggressive officers who became enraged when their harassment of patrons was caught on amateur video. […]
The only Democratic president ever re-elected had advice for the current president on his debt ceiling talks: “Don’t Blink.” Former president Clinton urged President Obama to not allow the Republicans to get the upper hand in debt negotiation talks. “This is the political equivalent of the government shutdown when I was president,” Clinton offered, leaning […]
NEWARK — A Newark Little League coach Kevin Waters, 54, was brutally attacked on a baseball field, leaving him with a fractured skull, a concussion and two missing teeth. Waters, who served as president of the West Ward Little League for 13 years, is said to be the only thing that separates his young players […]
Former alleged Nation of Islam member, and currently incarcerated federal felon, Clayton Hill has allegedly confessed to his role as an accessory after the fact to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. In his account with HipHopDX, also to be released in his e-book “Diary Of An Ex-Terrorist,” Hill implicates himself and members of the […]