GEORGIA- First Lady Michelle Obama gave a commencement speech to 550 Spelman College graduates Sunday in College Park, and was given an honorary degree from the first black female college.
KROTZ SPRINGS, La. — Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub. Most residents heeded the warnings and headed for higher ground, even […]
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MCKINNEY, Texas — A 14-year-old named Nicholas Cobb has created a non-profit group providing food and other essentials to the city’s homeless. The Grio reports: It started small with toiletries for the homeless, cleaning supplies for their shelters. Then two years ago, at age 12, he set up Comfort and Joy, a small non-profit with […]
WASHINGTON D.C. – Rand Paul, the Freshman Senator, from Kentucky compared universal health care to slavery to a congressional committee on health and labor. Raw Story reports: “With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies,” the senator said. “It’s not an abstraction. I’m […]
PHILADELPHIA– Boxer Bernard Hopkins hinted to a reporter that he felt Donovan McNabb is a “house-negro” or uncle tom during a Philadelphia Daily news interview.…
From our radio station in Cincinnati 1230 Cincy Buzz: View more about this story including photos at the 1230 Cincy Buzz site Check out exclusive photos of our live interview with Betty Daniels Roseman, one of the original Freedom Riders and a living legend featured on Oprah Winfrey’s recent tribute to the historic members and […]
WILMINGTON, Del. — Serena Wardlaw was arrested on assault charges for allegedly beating her 9-year-old son with an extension cord for taking a check from her checkbook so that he could buy a book from his school’s book fair. The Grio reports: An investigation revealed that Wardlaw was enraged when she found out that her […]
The T.D. Jakes produced “Jumping The Broom” leapt over expectations this weekend with an opening of over $13 million. The class-conscious comedy movie was only expected to open up with between $8-10 million in sales. While Tyler Perry seemed to have the Black marriage/comedy market in a stranglehold, Jakes appears to be a player now […]
CONYERS, Ga. — Funeral services were held for North Carolina teen Phylicia Barnes, who went missing while visiting a relative in Baltimore. Her body was found unclothed in a Maryland river on April 20, over three months after she vanished from a relative’s apartment. The Root reports: Barnes’ funeral was held at Springfield Baptist Church […]
