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Designer Peggy Noland is making a big name for herself in the fashion world. She customized a pair of Air Jordans for Miley Cyrus to wear in her “23” video, and she designed an exclusive collection of rompers for Rihanna to rock on her Diamonds World Tour. But, her latest celebrity-themed project has a lot […]
British pop singer Lily Allen has proven once again that solidarity is for White women by positioning Black female bodies as hypersexualized props in the video for her new feminist anthem, “Hard Out Here.” MUST READ: Power Moves! Black Women Fastest-Growing Entrepreneurs In The U.S. The video is allegedly a satire skewering the sexism and misogyny — […]
80-year-old Tempie Strickland was arrested after a domestic abuse allegations against her live-in ex-husband in Fort Worth, TX. Tempie allegedly pointed a weapon at her husband because he was staying out late and she wanted to “scare” him. Tempie was charged with attempted murder, but the charge has been reduced to aggravated assault with a […]
Reginald Wells, a 12-year-old student at Willie Ray Smith Middle School in Beaumont, Texas was allegedly knocked unconscious by his assistant math teacher last Friday after making a joke about his favorite football team, reports CBS News. MUST READ: President Obama Speaks On Affordable Care Act Wells was standing in the hallway joking with the […]
Judge James Daniel has decided to push Marissa Alexander’s bond hearing back to January 15, 2014. The hearing was to determine whether or not the 33-year-old mother of two should be granted bail as she awaits her new trial on March 31, 2014. Marissa’s legal team argued that she is no longer a “threat” to […]
UPDATE: 11/14/13, 4:32 P.M. ET: Watch President Obama’s full address on the ACA below: Click here for complete transcript. The White House also sent a letter to insurance commissioners detailing the administrative fix for people whose policies were cancelled under Obamacare. Read it below via TalkingPointsMemo.com: _____________________________________________________________ President Barack Obama will speak on the Patient […]
“Our race is our nation,” was the bold phrase that surrounded a hooded KKK member on the fliers that were scattered across the yards of New Smyrna Beach, Florida neighborhood, which happens to be predominantly Black. The offensive literature was said to have been recruiting fliers from a Klan group in North Carolina. Must Read: […]
Glamour’s Women Of The Year Awards took place earlier this week and Lada Gaga was among the 12 women honored (along with Kerry Washington, Malala Yousafzai, Gabby Giffords, Christy Turlington Burns and Melinda Gates). In Gaga’s epic acceptance speech, she said, “If I could forfeit my Glamour cover, I would give it to Malala.” Malala […]
In an op-ed reeking with condescension, homoantagonism and passive-aggressive racism, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen classified the Tea Party’s need to stifle a “gag reflex” at the sight of NYC Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his family “conventional.” MUST READ: Bill deBlasio’s Landslide Win Gives Black New Yorkers Hope Not racist. Not prejudiced. And certainly not a […]
Former president Bill Clinton has been brutally honest in his assessment of Obamacare, despite being one of its biggest supporters in the past. In a new interview with Ozy Media, Clinton criticized Obama’s Affordable Care Act, yet he still supported it, claiming that the biggest lesson is, “we’re better off with this law than without […]
UPDATE: 11/20/13, 10:30 A.M. EST: Funeral services for Rev. Teddy Parker, Jr. were held Saturday, Nov. 16 and broadcast over the internet, reports Christian News Network. According to Parker’s friend, Dr. E. Dewey Smith, Jr., the pastor was suffering with mental illness when he committed suicide: “He was suffering with manic depression and he had […]
Nadia Lewis and Jamila Ahmed are two students at Fresno State University in California who have made history by being the first Black women to win the top spots at the Henry Clay Invitational Debates held at the University of Kentucky. Launched in 1971, these debates are one of the oldest and largest U.S. policy […]
