Jay Z making higher education an option through his Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation
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...
Spelman Twins Make History As School’s First Co-Valedictorians
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...
Call Him Doctor: Chuck D Set to Receive an Honorary Doctorate
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...
Malcolm X Grandson Murdered in Mexico
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 early...
Odd coalition opposes Wisconsin bill limiting junk food purchases for food stamp users
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 is...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants student loans to get Fed discount rate
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 set to...
Unbelievable: Limbaugh complains Ohio kidnap victims might get welfare
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 women...
Ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling In Deal To Cut Prison Sentence By 10 Years
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, the...
CNN Boston Marathon Lie: Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot
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 Ashleigh...
‘Kickstarter for black community’ aims to close African-American start up gap
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...
Violence Against Women In The Black Community.
(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...
How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment
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:...
Escaping captors after 10 years, Amanda Berry ‘real hero’ in kidnapping case, police say
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...
NRA President Jim Porter Falsely Accused of Saying, “It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before We Can Own Colored People Again”
UI Notice: The comments were found not to be true. PHEEEEEWWWW, that would have been too much to handle. Houston - It seems new National Rifle Association President (NRA) president Jim Porter may have found himself in a bit of hot water. Not long ago he made his...
NY Man Writes Out Every Word In The Bible In Four Years
NewsOne - In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible. On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive. Four years of work begat more than 2,400 pages and left a...
Lauryn Hill Sentenced To 3 Months In Prison
NewsOne - Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hillwas sentenced Monday to three months in prison and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. Hill, a 37-year-old South Orange resident, pleaded guilty last year...
Al Sharpton Accused of Helping Lead FBI to Assata Shakur
Kulture Kritic - The Rev. and the Fugitive Sharpton tried to set up Chesimard, activists say By Ron Howell, Newsday, Friday 21 October 1988 The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has worked as a federal informant, tried to set up a meeting with black fugitive radical JoAnne...
Lil Kim Sued For $15 Million!
NewsOne - Rapper Lil Kim (pictured) has reportedly been hit with a $15 million lawsuit by her former business manager amid claims that her diva-like behavior cost him a ton of money in lost endorsement deals, according to TMZ. Andrew Ro, who reportedly handled the...
Black college student hangs Confederate flag in dorm room, admits it’s “kind of weird”
Yahoo! News - It's no great shock to learn that 19-year-old college student in South Carolina provoked a storm of protests after he'd hung a Confederate flag from his dorm room window. But here's the twist: The student in question, Byron Thomas, is black. "I know it's...
Student Loan policy forcing some off black campuses
A change in federal education loan policies has left many students at some of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities struggling to fill a gap in their financial aid and forcing hundreds to leave school. A more rigorous system of credit checks has...
