Harlem, New York– President Obama held a fundraiser last night at a recently opened Harlem neighborhood restaurant, Red Rooster;Â raising 1.5 million for the Democratic National Committee, and drawing crowds of many neighborhood supporters who hoped to catch a glimpse of the first African-American President. Among the 50 attendees of the $30,800-a-plate fundraiser, Charles Rangel […]
MICHIGAN — Security was stepped up at Michigan’s Port Huron Northern High School after a “hit-list” was found scrawled on the wall of a bathroom that used racial slurs against African-Americans and threatened to injure eight students. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, Diddy, and Snoop Dogg to make a song? Superintendent Ronald Wollen said an increased […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — There’s only one way in to Windy Ridge — across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It’s an unlikely place to come looking for the American Dream. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, […]
DALLASÂ — Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant is facing two lawsuits seeking more than $850,000 for unpaid jewelry bills, NFL and NBA tickets and loans. ALSO READ: Chrissy Lampkin talks proposing to Jim Jones A Tarrant County man is suing Bryant for $588,500 worth of watches, earrings, bracelets, rings and other jewelry, plus $15,850 worth […]
New York — A video uploaded to Worldstarhiphop yesterday showed a teenage girl cutting a teenage boy in the face after he laughed when her wig fell off. Also Read: Rihanna wrongfully brags about her show being sold out The attack, which was shot from a phone camera, was in a Queens subway station. After […]
New York– A Northwestern University study found that young adults who are regularly involved in religious activities have higher chances of becoming obese by middle age. Also read: Model & Single Mother Jourdan Dunn, 20, Reveals Son Has Sickle Cell The research found correlations between the frequency of church-going, and the participants Body Mass Index; […]
Ohio — A tag-team consisting of a pregnant woman and her daughter attacked a 71-year-old man in an Ohio Walmart, according to police. Also Read: Charlie Sheen, Diddy, and Snoop Dogg to make a song? The duo didn’t stop there – they also threatened to bomb the Walmart after attacking the senior citizen. The two […]
Staten Island — The popular Hip-Hop DJ who was murdered a block away from his home was on his way to buy marijuana, according to cops. DJ Megatron’s death was on track to become one of Hip-Hop’s unsolved mysteries, until police found out that McGriff told his friend that he was about to buy pot […]
Los Angeles — Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” recently said: “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began.” Also Read: Chris Brown dyes his hair again The L.A. Progressive reports: […]
WASHINGTON — Christine Kwapnoski hasn’t done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days. ALSO READ: Is Drinking Cold Water Bad For Your Health? But Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam’s Club stores in both Missouri and California: […]
