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New York — Peter S. Goodman at The Huffington Post has written an article on the effects of the recession on Black America in comparison to its affect on white America. Among white people, the unemployment rate dropped in December to 8.5 percent — hardly acceptable, but manageable were the government spending more to expand […]

Atlanta– Secretary of State Brian Kemp is moving the portrait of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to make space for the new portrait of outgoing Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Raunchy photographs of California congresswoman, Mary Bono Mack in a compromising position with another woman have been released by Radar Online. The pics show her with Edra Blixseth,a major campaign donor to Bono’s campaign and former billionaire who is currently under investigation for fraud, who appears to be licking her breast in one photograph. The […]

Las Vegas — Jacob Volkmann, the MMA fighter who said that he wanted to “knock some sense into that idiot” President Obama during a recent victory interview, has since gotten a visit from the Secret Service. Here’s what Volkmann told MMAWeekly.com in a recent interview: “It happened on Tuesday, I was coaching youth practice, and […]

MT. VERNON NY-A group of dogs brutally mauled an electrician in Mount Vernon, New York. 1010 Wins Reports: Police said two Rottweiler’s and a Wheaton terrier mix attacked Craig Jones as he walked along East 4th Street around 9:30 p.m. “I saw three huge dogs on top of him and he was just screaming. He […]

BALTIMORE, MD — The FBI is now in on the search to find a missing teen from our state. Phylicia Barnes was reported missing last week while she was in Baltimore to visit family. Barnes, who is from Monroe, North Carolina, left the apartment she was staying at on December 28 to get something to […]

From Gawker Arkansas — All these scary bird, crab and fish die-offs have prompted many to wonder if the world was coming to an end, a whole year before it’s officially supposed to. But so-called “scientists” say these massive die-offs happen all the time. Regarding the thousands of birds that just up and died and […]

Houston — The number of poor people in the U.S. is millions higher than previously known, with 1 in 6 Americans— many of them 65 and older — struggling in poverty due to rising medical care and other costs, according to preliminary census figures released Wednesday. At the same time, government aid programs such as […]

Washington — Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, announced Wednesday that he will step down from his position in February.  Although he will no longer be a part of the administration, Gibbs will serve as an outside political adviser to President Obama. Gibbs will refocus his attention on President Obama’s re-election campaign.  President Obama told […]

New York — Rob Sgobbo, a young writer for the New York Daily News, has had a freelance story he wrote yanked from the Village Voice‘s website. He apparently fabricated sources and lied about his reporting. Voice editor Tony Ortega says in an editor’s note that in a story examining for-profit colleges (here’s the cached […]

WASHINGTON — The nation’s added 103,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months. The previous month’s African-American unemployment rose to 16 percent and has now dipped slightly to 15.8 percent, while black teen unemployment declined to 44.2 percent, but remains the highest of […]

Mississippi– Two Mississippi sisters who have been imprisoned for 16 years were released on Friday morning on the condition that the younger sibling donate a kidney to her older sister, whose organs are failing. Jamie and Gladys Scott walked out of the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. at just after 8 a.m. Central […]