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Jet magazine reporter Adelle M. Banks recently wrote an article in the April 25 edition entitled “Blacks’ Conditions worsen, Urban League Reports”.
For decades, many African Americans grew accustomed to a middle class lifestyle in their homes across the country. Lives that were built through hard work; climbing up the corporate ladder from entry level positions to the corner offices. But with foreclosures and the continuing recession, many African-Americans find themselves in dire straits. Close to 15.5 […]
One in four children in the United States is being raised by a single parent — a percentage that has been on the rise and is higher than other developed countries, according to a report released Wednesday. Of the 27 industrialized countries studied by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. had 25.8 […]
Washington — President Obama slammed the media specifically reporter Chuck Todd from MSNBC for entertaining the “carnival barkers” who wouldn’t put the birther issue to rest. The White House released Obama’s birth certificate earlier this morning to quell the talk that he wasn’t born in the U.S. once and for all. The birther issue seemed […]
WASHINGTON D.C. — A day after CNN completed an investigation claiming that President Obama was indeed born in the U.S., The White House went ahead and released the official birth certificate of the president. Since the launch of his campaign in 2007, Obama’s biggest detractors and critics have accused him of not being born in […]
Washington D.C. — A 16-year-old kid was stabbed multiple times Monday at the Smithsonian Zoo during a traditional Easter event for African-American families. NBC Washington reports: Around 4 p.m., D.C. fire and rescue officials received several calls about a stabbing victim at the 2900 block of Connecticut Avenue, and upon arrival they found a teenage […]
Check out our Top 10 Most Racist Rush Limbaugh Comments Many of us know that what Rush Limbaugh is best at is opening his mouth. We also know that when he opens his mouth – whether it’s about Donovan McNabb or President Obama – racist statements will be heard. Writer Oliver Willis recently took it […]
BROOKLYN– Just days after the murder of a 18-year-old was caught on tape in Brooklyn, another young man named Trevonne Winn, 24, was gunned down just before 8pm as he stood outside his uncle’s Crown Fried Chicken shop in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn.
by Dina Estelle Williams Last fall, Tyler Clementi was a promising college freshman. Sadly, just weeks after arriving at The State University of New Jersey—Rutgers University—Tyler jumped over the George Washington bridge on September 22, 2010. Tyler committed suicide when he discovered his roommate, Dharun Ravi, had broadcast online his sexual encounter with another man.
NEW YORK– Donald Trump is making claims that President Obama was a “terrible student” and was not qualified to get in to the Ivy League universities he attended.