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Four drunken Somali Muslim women caught on tape severely beating a white woman in the UK were not jailed because the judge heard they were “not used to being drunk” because they were Muslim, UK publication The Sun reports. Not only did the judge determine the attack was not racially motivated, he decided neither of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional lines between rich and poor, according to new census data. Their migration is widening the income gap between whites and the inner-city blacks who remain behind, while making blacks less monolithic as a group and […]
New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before […]
Suspects take guns in daytime robbery (Greenwood) – Using a stolen SUV, two robbers broke into a gun store early Wednesday morning. Their activity was captured on store surveillance cameras which showed the duo driving the vehicle right through the front entrance of Elmore’s Gun Store in the 500 block of N. State Road 135. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In diplomatically polite terms, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper remained at odds Wednesday over a proposed oil pipeline from Canada through the United States, with Obama showing no interest in speeding up a project that the Canadian leader sees as vital to his nation’s economy. SEE ALSO: Obama […]
Super Bowl Gospel Celebration team made the official announcement before a standing room only crowd that the 2012 Super Bowl Gospel Celebration will be held on Friday, February 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University. Celebrating 13 years of inspiration, the NFL sanctioned event transcends the traditional Super Bowl Weekend activity, […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday that a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three relatives had plotted to sneak into Mexico under false names and take clandestine refuge at a posh Pacific coast resort. See Also: Pakistani President Has Heart Attack The elaborate plan to bring al-Saadi Gadhafi to Mexico […]
On behalf of Cathy Hughes, founder and CEO of Radio One, Mildred Gaddis, Host of Inside Detroit, will honor Ofield Dukes December 8th at 7:00 a.m. on WCHB AM 1200/99.9 FM. It was because of Dukes that Radio One exists today. In 2002 Hughes named the building that would house three of her Detroit stations […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Some forward-looking college professors enabled television’s Smithsonian Channel to offer a look at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. from the time in which it occurred. SEE ALSO: Dead Friend Buried Beneath Christmas Presents The network said Wednesday it will air a documentary in February culled primarily from local news footage […]
Government-funded researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, an Associated Press review has found. SEE ALSO: How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times Worst Kardashian Lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Belgium has given Republicans heavy fodder for criticism by linking Israeli government policy with rising anti-Jewish sentiment among Europe’s Muslims – an argument that has angered Jewish groups and given the Obama administration a new headache as it seeks to counter Republican claims that it is anti-Israel. […]
On his Fox News show yesterday, pundit Bill O’Reilly suggested to guest, Marc Lamont Hill that President Barack Obama would go on the long running dance program “Soul Train” in an effort to reach out to African American Voters. Soul Train, the longest running show in television history known for its dance lines and urban […]