By theGrio A Willowbrook man wanted to get money from his family, so he staged his own kidnapping and demanded a $1,000 ransom, NBC 5 Chicago reports. SEE ALSO: Gay Marriages Next Big Hurdle L.A.’s School Sex Abuse Scandal Dorian Ford, 19, is now charged with a Class 4 felony of filing a false crime […]
A nationwide pro-atheist campaign launched to coincide with Black History Month has some African-Americans reaffirming their spiritual convictions. SEE ALSO: Washington State Legalize Gay Marriage Gay Marriage’s Next Big Hurdle “It’s a sign of the end times,” said Reverend Kyev Tatum of Harmony Missionary Baptist Church in Texas. “People will turn from the truth and […]
Born Malcolm Little in 1925, the man the world later know as Malcolm X or even El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, helped spur the growth of Islam and Black nationalism in America in the 1960s thanks largely to his supreme oratorial gifts. The former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, largely considered one of the nation’s most […]
As I’ve run around the country giving Black History Month speeches, I’ve been thinking a great deal about where we are and where we are going as a community; I’ve also been asked about President Barack Obama’s role in Black history. Since the 44th president’s existence has been entirely complex and phenomenal — all at […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. states reached a landmark $25 billion deal Thursday with the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst. SEE ALSO: Washington State To Legalize Gay Marriage The deal requires five of the largest banks to reduce loans for about 1 million households at risk of foreclosure. […]
School officials in Slidell, LA don’t have much to say about “malicious drawings” from a seventh grade class that depict malicious drawings of President Obama, including one of him with a bullet hole in his head, but they should. According to the news reports: Controversy erupted at a Slidell junior high school late last week […]
The Chicago Teachers Union has accused the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system of racism. On Wednesday, the Teachers Union filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office, alleging that while 29 percent of the CPS system teachers were African American, 43 percent of those teachers were subject to a massive 2011 layoff spree. […]
IOSHA cites three groups for stage collapse (Indianapolis) — Three groups are being fined by the Indiana Department of Labor relating to last year’s fatal stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair. A report released yesterday by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Association has resulted in the largest fine of $63,000 dollars is being […]
