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...
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...
