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CALIFORNIA — A woman was escorted off an Amtrak train on Sunday for speaking too loudly on her phone. Huffington Post reports: Lakeysha Beard, 39, was charged with disorderly conduct after she wouldn’t stop talking on the 16-hour trip from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon. The train was stopped short of its destination. Train operators […]

A young survivor of the bombing that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City has graduated from high school and will be attending college in the Fall. The Grio reports: Two-year-old Donquay Hammons was being taken from America kids daycare downtown — bloodied and injured from the Murrah federal building bombing across the street. […]

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kentucky man who was arrested after police burst into his apartment without a search warrant because they smelled marijuana and feared he was trying to get rid of incriminating evidence. Voting 8-1, the justices reversed a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling that threw out the evidence […]

Every year, more and more research is done showing that there may be associations between certain everyday lifestyle choices we make and the development of prostate cancer. African-American men and those with a strong family history of the disease are also at increased risk. Some of the following signs and symptoms common to prostate cancer […]

NORFOLK,VIRGINIA – Details have emerged in the shooting deaths of Bill Bonney and Daquan Hill both of whom were shot and killed after a rap battles in Virginia. Hampton Roads has detailed stories on both killings: Pound(Bonney) delivered two slams during the battle rap, witnesses later testified, that brought Stress to a boil. He called […]

CALIFORNIA — Cali Swag District released a statement to MTV News urging people who know something about the circumstances of the shooting of M-Bone to come forward and help police.

The PBS Documentary, “Freedom Riders” about the Civil Rights movement and the young men and women who would travel through out the south and willfully violate unjust segregationist policies is getting rave reviews after premiering last night. Critics have compared it to the award winning Civil Rights documentary series, “Eyes On The Prize.” The New […]

Singer Alicia Keys has broken her silence on allegations by the ex-wife of Swizz Beatz that she ruined their marriage. Keys, who married Swizz Beatz early last year, has been accused by singer Mashonda of breaking up their happy home. The allegations have hurt her a lot, said Keys. “We didn’t start seeing each other […]

The suspects who attacked transgender woman Christy Lee Polis in a Maryland McDonald’s restaurant are now facing hate-crime charges. Two young women, ages 18 and 14, are facing hate-crime charges for the brutal attack that ended up making its way on the internet. They were also charged with hitting the McDonald’s employee who tried to […]

Talk show host, political commentator and author Tavis Smiley took to their airwaves last week to continue his criticism of President Obama when it comes to the issue of Black unemployment. Smiley, who many feel is a member of a tag-team with Cornel West who criticize the president and Rev. Al Sharpton, stopped by our […]

NEW YORK-Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook was sworn in as the first African American to be the White House Ambassador For Religious Freedom. The New York Daily News reports: She was the first woman to serve as a chaplain for the NYPD, a position she has held since 1990. After 9/11, she helped traumatized police officers […]