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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
