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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 […]
In an interview with FOX Sports Live’s Jay Glazer, Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito, 30 (pictured above), claims that he is not racist and that his use of the word “ni**er” in a vulgar text message to teammate Jonathan Martin, 24, was “out of love.” MUST READ: NYPD Allegedly Forces Man To Rap To Avoid Arrest [VIDEO] Martin left the […]
When the going gets tough, the tough get going is an affirmation that has always applied to Black women and a new report released by the Center for American Progress has the numbers to prove it. Despite continued racial disparities and inequities in healthcare, education, politics and unemployment, Black women are the fastest-growing entrepreneurs in […]
Diggy Simmons posted a photo of himself after a workout over the weekend and I had to clutch my pearls, drop them and immediately pray to God to deliver me from the lust rising up in my loins. Sheesh! What a hottie! I immediately remember watching him come of age on screen in “Run’s House;” […]
