So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?
The Guardian - Kevin Johnson was pilloried for suggesting Obama has not been good for African Americans. But his question was a good one. Back when affirmative action was white, educational institutions were created for African Americans who were barred from admission...
Clarence Thomas: Obama Only President Because He’s What ‘Elites’ Expect ‘From A Black Person’
Huffington Post - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn't speak much on the job, but during an interview last month at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh, Pa., he offered some candid insight into his thoughts about politics and President Barack Obama. Asked if...
Besieged by coons.The New Urban Regime: In Atlanta Gentrification Wears A Black Face
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce A. Dixon Black city hall, black police chief and mostly black cops, and black-landlords colluding to push working class African Americans out in favor of newer, whiter, more affluent residents? Sound familiar? You might be...
US judge receives 28-year jail term for selling kids to private prisons.
Mark Ciavarella Jnr ordered to pay $1.2m in restitution after he was found to be a 'figurehead' in the conspiracy. An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders...
Lil Wayne Gets Dropped by Mountain Dew over Emmett Till Diss
Urban Belle - Hip Hop has always been known to be controversial, but it appears that scandalous lyrics are causing the pockets of rappers to get a lot lighter these days. Rapper Rick Ross lost his Reebok endorsement due to rapping about what many felt sounded like an...
Has Obama Failed Black Americans on Jobs?
The Root - The U.S. economy appears to rebound for everyone but African Americans. After a dismal showing in March, when fewer than 90,000 jobs were reported created, the April jobs report is being billed as a comeback of sorts for the U.S. economy: There were...
Author examines secrets of black millionaires
Shelia M. Poole — Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Author Dennis Kimbro has spent the past seven years interviewing people many of us probably wish we could be. Millionaires. Kimbro, a professor of business at Clark Atlanta University, interviewed 1,000 of the...
Antoine Dodson Claims He Prayed Away the Gay, Renounces Homosexuality
Clutch - Flamboyant viral video star, Antoine Dodson, is back in the news today after taking to Facebook to “renounce himself” and his homosexuality. Dodson, best known for the “Bed Intruder” song, claims he’s now a Black Israelite and wants a wife and children....
Big heart: South Africa’s richest black man gives $1.3 billion, half his wealth, to the poor
BBC News - South Africa’s richest black man, Patrice Motsepe, has announced he is giving away half his wealth to improve the lives of the poor. The mining magnate said the money would be handled by the Motsepe Foundation to address education and health issues. He said...
Millionaire who quit Microsoft to educate Africa’s future leaders
(CNN) -- Having just quit a highly lucrative job with tech giant Microsoft in the United States, where he'd made millions working as a program manager, Patrick Awuah would wake up once in a while wondering if he'd done the right thing. "And then I read the words of...
Outrage as high school recites Pledge in Arabic saying ‘One Nation Under Allah’
Daily Mail - Fury is brewing at Rocky Mountain High School, in Colorado, after a multicultural student group were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic - replacing 'one nation under God' with 'one nation under Allah'. Following...
FBI to Add Assata Shakur to Most Wanted Terrorist List; Double Reward for Her Capture
Black Youth Project - Forty years ago today, the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper led to the imprisonment and conviction of Assata Shakur. Assata was set free from Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979, and lives in exile in Cuba. To commemorate this...
This Study Says, If You Listen to Lil Wayne, You’re Stupid!
Yahoo - According to a recent study, Lil Wayne fans are as dumb as a rock. If you enjoy Beyonce and T.I., you're not too far behind. If you listen to Beethoven, you're practically a genius. Data for the study was gathered from Facebook. The study's author found kids...
High School Student Charged With Felony Over Science Experiment?
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,”...
FDA: Plan B will be over the counter for women 15 and over
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...
Reality 1, Austerity 0
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 Britain,...
‘The Cosby Show’ Broadcasts Final Episode 21 Years Ago Today
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 elite...
Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History
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 Felicia in...
Emmett Till’s Family Wants Mountain Dew to Drop Lil Wayne for Not Apologizing
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 community....
Debunked Sophia Stewart vs. The Matrix story still circulates web
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...
