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Michigan State football signee Jay Harris walks away from scholarship for rap career
Yahoo - As a signee for a major Division I football program, Jay Harris was no slouch on the field. A standout wide receiver for Exton (Pa.) Downington East High, Harris was expected to contribute for the Michigan State Spartans in some capacity as a freshman. Now he...
Kiera Wilmot Will Not Be Charged For Explosion At Florida School
Huff Post Crime - A central Florida teenager who was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds – and who became the subject of a grassroots social media campaign on her behalf – will not face criminal charges, authorities said Wednesday. Polk County...
Do Black Celebrities Go To Jail For Tax Evasion More Than Whites?
The Urban Daily - With news still sinking in about Lauryn Hill’s impending 3 month jail sentence for tax evasion, the question that everyone started asking was, “Who else has been in trouble with the IRS and had to serve time?” While that question on its face was...
Mo’Nique Discusses Dramatic Weight Loss Since ‘Precious’: ‘I Was a Food Junkie’
Mo'Nique is serious these days about taking care of her health, and in a new radio interview, she's revealing some of the secrets behind her workout routine and new svelte figure. The 45-year-old actress and comedienne, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy...
Angelina Jolie reveals she had double mastectomy
From a UI Member: Do you think it's a little extreme for Angelina Jolie to have a double mastectomy to prevent cancer? And with health being so poor in the Black and Brown community, do you see it as likely that Myriad Genetics will try to convince us that we have the...
Dr. Dre, Iovine donate $70M for new USC center
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and music industry entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine have donated a combined $70 million to create a new institute at the University of Southern California, the school announced Tuesday night. The huge...
Cleveland Man Gets Charles Ramsey’s Face Inked On His Leg
NewsOne - A Cleveland tattoo artist was so impressed with Charles Ramsey‘s heroic act of saving three kidnapped women that he offered to tattoo the man’s face on a willing person. Best of all, he offered to do so for free. Fox 8 News in Cleveland reports that Rodney...
POSITIVE PROPAGANDA: Black Girls RUN! encourages fitness and healthy living
The Mercury - According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80 percent of African-American women are overweight. A group of Montgomery County women have joined a national movement to seize healthy lifestyles and overcome this epidemic. Black Girls RUN! was created in...
Can the Black community change the face of the music industry?
Members of the Black intelligentsia let out a collective victory cry last week when hip-hop artist Lil Wayne lost a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Mountain Dew as a result of lyrics comparing the beating of murdered teenager Emmett Till in 1955 to female...
Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief, Lies Pastors Tell Christians
AFRICANGLOBE – As far as many pastors are concerned, the most important scripture of all is not to be found in the word of Jesus. Neither is it even in the New Testament. That scripture says: “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my...
Black Voter Surge Spells Even More Woe for the GOP
The fond hope of the GOP is that the census revelation that for the first time in census history a higher percentage of blacks than whites turned out for the 2012 presidential election is an aberration. The aberration is, of course, President Obama. The conventional...
KeAndre Varner, Georgia Student, Suspended After Posting Principal’s Mug Shot To Instagram
KeAndre Varner, a Georgia high school student, was suspended for four days Monday after he posted a mug shot of his principal to Instagram. According to Atlanta's WSB-TV, Riverdale High School principal Jamille Miller-Brown was arrested in March for missing a court...
