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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...
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...
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...
