A massive tornado touched down in Moore,Oklahoma. The The National Weather Service upgraded its estimate of the storm’s force, saying it was the strongest type,…
GOP political consultant Raynard Jackson is known for writing articles with a distinctly conservative flair – Frederick Douglass, not Ronald Reagan. His latest piece, comparing…
Three Chicago teens are facing sexual assault charges after raping a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posting the footage on Facebook. According to reports by the Chicago Tribune, Scandale Fritz, 16, asked the 12-year-old girl to come to his house around 3:30 p.m. in December. When the girl arrived, Fritz’s friends, Kenneth Brown, 15, and […]
Sci-fi fans are generally fairly mild-mannered folk. But don’t get them angry. You wouldn’t like them when they’re angry. Unfortunately, there was lots of anger in Norwich, UK, over the weekend, when fans of “Doctor Who” and “Star Wars” squared off outside a convention — and yes, “the force” was called. The police force. According […]
By Raynard Jackson, NNPA Columnist: I was flipping through the TV channels last week and came across one of Spike Lee’s best movies, School Daze. This was…
A custom-made electric guitar played by the late John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles sold at a New York auction on Saturday for $408,000, said officials with the company behind the event. The semi-hollow-body guitar, manufactured by the VOX company, was sold to an unidentified U.S. buyer at the “Music Icons” event organized […]
Band Angels, bandages for kids featuring healing scriptures, has announced a strategic partnership with multi-award-winning artist, Jaci Velasquez. Velasquez will serve as spokesperson for the…
Freedom fighters Carl Dix (pictured above right) and Cornel West (pictured above center) held an intense dialogue about mass incarceration on the Upper West Side Monday evening.…
Grammy ® Award- nominated, Dove, Stellar, GMWA, NAACP Image Award-Winning Singer Dottie Peoples performed in front of a sold-out crowd Saturday May 18th at the…
A Detroit mother claims that four women attacked her in front of her children over a possible road incident, Fox 2 News Detroit reports. Watch…
If it’s been a while since you referred to your office khakis as “hero pants,” perhaps it’s time for you to step into the costume Luke Skywalker wore in “Star Wars.” Yes, Luke put his pants on one leg at a time just like the rest of us, but these pants “are one of the […]
Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace (pictured) was gunned down on March 9, 1997, just two months shy of his 25th birthday. With fame and all the…
