by Furious | May 14, 2013 | News
NewsOne – A Cleveland tattoo artist was so impressed with Charles Ramsey‘s heroic act of saving three kidnapped women that he offered to tattoo the man’s face on a willing person. Best of all, he offered to do so for free. Fox 8 News in Cleveland...
by Furious | May 14, 2013 | Positivity
The Mercury – According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80 percent of African-American women are overweight. A group of Montgomery County women have joined a national movement to seize healthy lifestyles and overcome this epidemic. Black Girls RUN! was...
by Furious | May 14, 2013 | Blog
Harlem World – LiveSteez research shows that Black churches, in aggregate, have collected more than $420 billion in tithes and donations since 1980. With a Senate investigation into the finances of several mega churches underway, the “Prosperity Movement” has...
by Furious | May 14, 2013 | Celebrities, News
Members of the Black intelligentsia let out a collective victory cry last week when hip-hop artist Lil Wayne lost a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Mountain Dew as a result of lyrics comparing the beating of murdered teenager Emmett Till in 1955 to female...
by Furious | May 13, 2013 | News
AFRICANGLOBE – As far as many pastors are concerned, the most important scripture of all is not to be found in the word of Jesus. Neither is it even in the New Testament. That scripture says: “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my...
by Furious | May 13, 2013 | News
The fond hope of the GOP is that the census revelation that for the first time in census history a higher percentage of blacks than whites turned out for the 2012 presidential election is an aberration. The aberration is, of course, President Obama. The conventional...
by Furious | May 13, 2013 | News
KeAndre Varner, a Georgia high school student, was suspended for four days Monday after he posted a mug shot of his principal to Instagram. According to Atlanta’s WSB-TV, Riverdale High School principal Jamille Miller-Brown was arrested in March for missing a...
by Furious | May 11, 2013 | Celebrities, News, Positivity
Jay Z’s Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation is doing its part to help under served students get a higher education. The foundation offers scholarships to single mothers, children who attend alternative schools, students who have earned a GED, students with grade point...
by Furious | May 11, 2013 | Blog
Kristie (pictured left) and Kirstie Bronner (pictured) are identical twins with identical grade point averages, so why shouldn’t they share the honor of being Spelman College‘s first-ever sister co-valedictorians, reports WSB-TV. The road to one of this country’s...
by Furious | May 11, 2013 | News
Chuck D is a great man, most fans of hip-hop are familiar with his contributions. An award that may have confirmed his greatness is an honorary doctorate set to be bestowed upon the former head of Public Enemy. Chuck D (aka Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) will be a...