by Furious | May 1, 2013 | News
NewsOne – Kiera Wilmot, 16, is by all known accounts an excellent student with impeccable behavior. She is also — now — a marked woman who will be tried as an adult for discharging a weapon on school grounds in what was allegedly a bungled science experiment,”...
by Furious | May 1, 2013 | News
Washington Post – The Food and Drug Administration announced late Tuesday afternoon that it had approved a drugmaker’s application to sell the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step over-the-counter to women 15 and older. This is not, as the FDA points out in a...
by Furious | Apr 30, 2013 | News
It’s been a very bad week for the merchants of austerity. In Europe, the just-released statistics on first quarter performance show EU nations sliding deeper into recession. In Spain and Greece, unemployment rates are approaching a staggering 30 percent. In...
by Furious | Apr 30, 2013 | News
NewsOne – Comedian, actor and educator Bill Cosby launched his iconic sitcom “The Cosby Show” in the fall of 1984, introducing a successful African-American couple and their children in the borough of Brooklyn. The show ran for eight years, joining a small and...
by Furious | Apr 30, 2013 | News
Your Black World by Dr. Boyce Watkins – If you’ve never heard of Felicia the Goat, you’ll know about her soon. Felicia the Goat is the main character in a recent Mountain Dew commercial, created in part by Tyler the Creator. The video shows...
by Furious | Apr 30, 2013 | Celebrities, News
Your Black World by Dr Boyce Watkins – The family of the late Emmett Till is entirely fed up with corporations who provide sponsorship to rappers seeking to desecrate the memory of civil rights figures, as well as contribute to the destruction of the black...
by Furious | Apr 30, 2013 | News
Examiner – No, Sophia Stewart, an African-American writer who claims the the Wachowski brothers stole The Matrix Trilogy from her, never won a copyright infringement suit against the pair. Neither has her claim that the Terminator was stolen from her ever had...
by Furious | Apr 29, 2013 | Celebrities, News
SI.com – I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn’t...
by Furious | Apr 29, 2013 | News
Elve8 – Rapid advances in genetic technologies could lead to a form of child “eugenics” and have serious implications for society, a leading fertility expert has warned. Professor Lord Robert Winston said that current controls will not be able to keep pace, and...
by Furious | Apr 29, 2013 | Celebrities
Huffington Post – For 42 years, we have waged war against our own people that we have disguised as the “War on Drugs.” Forty-two years of failure that has cost the American taxpayers $1 trillion dollars, resulted in 45 million drug arrests, and...
