by Furious | May 9, 2013 | News
Amsterdam News – The Amsterdam News has learned, and the U.S. Embassy has confirmed, that Malcolm Shabazz – grandson of Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico. Several reports around the circumstances of his death, stilled unconfirmed, have rummored that he died...
by Furious | May 9, 2013 | News
An odd coalition of advocates for the needy, local retailers and big corporations is opposing a fast-moving bill limiting junk food for food stamp recipients. The bill on Wisconsin’s FoodShare program comes before the state on Tuesday in the Assembly, where it...
by Furious | May 9, 2013 | News
LA Times – Students taking out government loans to help pay for college should pay the same rock-bottom interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges big banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed Wednesday. With the interest rate on federal student loans...
by Furious | May 9, 2013 | News
MSNBC – If a tree falls in the forest, is it President Obama’s fault? The answer is, yes, the far-right can find a way to trace any tragedy or negative event back to Obama. The biggest news of the week is the successful end to the long search for three Cleveland...
by Furious | May 9, 2013 | News
Huffington Post – Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling would be freed from prison by 2017 under a newly proposed deal, CNBC reports. That would reduce Skilling’s current sentence by more than a decade. More from Reuters: According to court papers on Wednesday,...
by Furious | May 8, 2013 | News
In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd “satellite” interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all. The two suspects are...
by Furious | May 8, 2013 | News
Crowdfunding has opened up a world of opportunity to people searching for capital, but that doesn’t mean those opportunities extend equally to all segments of the population. BlackStartup debuted a crowdfunding platform today that features projects and ideas...
by Furious | May 8, 2013 | Blog
(ThyBlackMan.com) The measure of a society – the measure of its cultural or mental health- can be gauged by its treatment of and attitudes towards women. And by that measure, the Black community comes up woefully short. As far back as a decade ago, thenumber one...
by Furious | May 8, 2013 | Blog
New York Times: Opinion Pages – It’s easy to believe the worst is over in the economic downturn. But for African-Americans, the pain continues — over 13 percent of black workers are unemployed, nearly twice the national average. And that’s not a new development:...
by Furious | May 7, 2013 | News
Below is the story by Yahoo, but here is our take on the matter (the Yahoo Story). FAM: Did you notice how they are saying that one of the ladies who escaped is the hero as opposed to giving any credit to the man who helped kick the door down and rescue her so that...
