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Angela Bassett Set To Direct Whitney Houston Biopic On Lifetime Angela Bassett is set to direct an upcoming Whitney Houston biopic that will air as…

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New Voter ID Scheme: Pop Quizzes! Unsurprisingly, now that voter identification has become the law of the land in Arkansas, poll workers are wielding their…

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It’s Now Possible to Text 911 Starting last week, the four major cell phone service providers — Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T — enabled…

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Yes She Can: Brooklyn Eighth-Grader Publishes Two Novels On Her Own When 13-year-old Angela Content told her mother she was going to write a novel,…

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Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You “Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!” merits the distinction of the most…

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Diddy Wows Crowd In Emotional Commencement Speech At Howard University Graduation Chants roared from the crowd as attendees of Howard University’s 146th commencement waited to hear…

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North Korean State Media Publishes Racist Screed Against Obama Most articles published by North Korea’s state-run news agency are translated into English, but not this…

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Kansas City Bans Smoking Inside Public Housing Apartments It’s one thing to ban smoking from bars and restaurants, as Kansas City did in 2008 following…

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Nigeria’s President Issues Directive That ‘Everything Must Be Done’ To Free Abducted Girls Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met with security, school and state officials and…

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Here’s Why A Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Is Handing Out KKK Hoods Democratic candidate for governor Brett Hulsey plans to hand out white Ku Klux Klan-style…