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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...
NBA Center Jason Collins Says, “I am Black. And I am Gay.”
SI.com - I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand...
Genetically Modified Children Could Change Society
Elve8 - Rapid advances in genetic technologies could lead to a form of child “eugenics” and have serious implications for society, a leading fertility expert has warned. Professor Lord Robert Winston said that current controls will not be able to keep pace, and people...
Russell Simmons: The War on Drugs Is a War on America! Time to End It!
Huffington Post - For 42 years, we have waged war against our own people that we have disguised as the "War on Drugs." Forty-two years of failure that has cost the American taxpayers $1 trillion dollars, resulted in 45 million drug arrests, and overfilled America's...
Michael Jordan Married In Star-Studded Wedding
NewsOne - It’s official! His Royal Airness, Michael Jordan, 50, married his model girlfriend Yvette Prieto, 35, in a star-studded Florida wedding that included such guests as Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen and Tiger Woods, reports Hollywood Life. Over 500 guests...
