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An Atlanta man is using discounts to encourage Black women to wear their hair natural. Joey Digital, an Atlanta club promoter who has openly expressed his love for natural hair online, is offering discounts for various events for women with natural hair that use the code “natural” when buying tickets. Joey Digital has expressed his […]

Slain high school basketball star Tayshana Murphy may have been targeted by the two gunmen who shot and killed her and her brother, according to authorities. Earlier reports alleged Murphy was a victim of mistaken identity, but police now believe her and her brother were targeted as retaliation for an earlier assault between individuals at […]

Spectators cheered the prospect of  letting uninsured Americans die during Monday’s CNN Tea Party debate. “That’s what’s freedom is all about,” Republican presidential nominee Ron Paul said when CNN’s Wolf Blizter asked who should pay when uninsured Americans encounter catastrophic illness. “He should do whatever he wants to do,” Paul said. My advice to him is […]

A new Gallup poll shows that 86 percent of Americans approve of interracial marriage, up from 4% in 1958 and 43% in 1983. The poll also shows that 96% of African Americans approve of interracial marriage while 84% of whites approve of it. Gallup reports: Approval of black-white marriages is at a record high among […]

NEW YORK-Videos and pictures have surfaced of policemen dirty dancing with women at the West Indian Labor Day Parade in Brooklyn. The women were part of the parade and were dressed in traditional parade clothing. Fox New York reports: A video has surfaced on a website called worldstarhiphop.com that shows what appear to be cops […]

It can be hard sometimes to find inspiration around you, especially when you’re just stuck in your old routines and need a change. There are many definitions of inspiration – that could include writing, general beauty, or just a change in your surroundings that makes you stop and think. For example, sometimes sitting in a […]

NEW JERSEY-Leroy McKelvey, a Dallas Cowboys fan used a taser on some New York Jets fans during a fight at Giant Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday. McKlevey who is from South Carolina is the father of popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God, co-host of “The Breakfast Club” on New York City’s Power 105.1 The […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated attack Tuesday on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in the heart of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. An embassy spokeswoman said no staff were reported wounded, but officials said at least one Afghan police officer and two insurgents had been […]

We all have people in our lives that weigh us down with burden and complaints.  The world encourages us to complain and take the slightest infraction to heart. Today let’s stop. Let’s remove and cast those things upon the wind. Call upon God to calm my fears and to remove anything that may interfere with […]

  Saturday October 1st, 2011 at Lucas Oil Stadium Kentucky State University will take on Albany State University for the 28th Annual Circle City Classic! You don’t want to miss a minute of all of the family fun to be had.  Make sure you look for AM1310 The Light in this years Circle City Classic […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Joseph Mwangi hoped and prayed his children had escaped the inferno caused when a leaking gasoline pipeline exploded on Monday, sending flames racing through a Nairobi slum and killing at least 75 people. Then he saw two small blackened bodies in the wreckage of his home. “Those were my children,” he sobbed, collapsing […]