Post by RK Byers
If I were locked in a room with Jesse Jackson and Soledad O’Brien and given a gun with exactly 1 bullet, I’d probably blow my own brains out because no matter which of those two I shot, I’d still be stuck with the other one.
Neit ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 1:09PM
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Post by Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG – A new survey says more than one in three South African men admit to having committed rape.
A 2010 study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says that in Gauteng province, home to South ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 1:03PM
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This interview was interesting although I didn't care for the interviewer. She didn't seem to be on the same level with Jay. She didn't seem familiar with his background, just there to ask questions. No intimacy between the two. Jay is such an intere ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 8:09AM
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Sorry I've got to steal this one and expose it to the masses.
This is an amazing story Brotha Rickey and a great post, and its makes me thinks of myself and the brothas and sistas I've come in contact with on the sites to which Im a member. I see th ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 7:05PM
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Since leaving the “NBC Nightly News” anchor desk, Tom Brokaw has been busy doing other projects for the NBC Universal family. Most recently he has been working with USA Network on a number of documentaries highlighting different aspects of American l ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 9:24AM
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By: United Nations Development Fund For Women
Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. Based on country
data available,1 up to 70 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men
in their lifetime — th ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 9:14AM
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By: CNN Coverage Manager Shirley Henry
WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Barack Obama returned to the basketball court Saturday, but this time he stayed on the sidelines.
Obama went to Howard University to watch its men's basketball team, the Bis ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 8:32AM
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Announcing Amber Communications Group, Inc. eBooks
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- Ebook licensing deals are now available for publishers, self-publishers and authors via Amber Communications Group, Inc. (ACGI). The company, found online at www.AmberB ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 8:23PM
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CHICAGO (November 23, 2010) -- A founder of one of the oldest African-American history museums in the country has died.
A spokesman for the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Raymond Ward, says Margaret Burroughs died in her sle ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 8:13PM
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Friend --
When Michelle and I sit down with our family to give thanks today, I want you to know that we'll be especially grateful for folks like you.
Everything we have been able to accomplish in the last two years was possible because you have ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 10:46AM
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In the years since Min. Farrakhan gave his last televised interview, the Nation of Islam leader has survived major surgery, been forced to confront his mortality and pondered his legacy while keeping a watchful eye on the circumstances impacting the ...
Posted Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 3:48PM
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by Dr. Charles F. Stanley
We often remember to thank Him when something positive happens in our life. But 1 Thessalonians 5:18 tells us to give thanks in all things, which includes difficult times as well as happier circumstances. Of course, thank ...
Posted Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 12:29PM
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James Rucker, ColorOfChange.org
For decades, Black farmers across the South suffered widespread discrimination at the hands of the United States Department of Agriculture. Now they're finally getting their due, and it's in part thanks to you and mor ...
Posted Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 11:58AM
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MADEA'S BIG HAPPY FAMILY is Now Available on DVD. Bring Madea’s family to yours this Thanksgiving.
Be blessed, Tyler ...
Posted Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 8:38AM
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Posted By: Leroy Vaughn, author of Black People and Their Place in World History
You've seen the headlines: "Are Americans Ready for a Black President?" "Is Obama Black Enough?" "Obama: America's First Black President?"
Ever since the nation f ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 7:47PM
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James Rucker, ColorOfChange.org
Republicans in Congress are pushing to continue Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans, at the same time that they’re opposing extending unemployment insurance for people struggling to find work. Democrats ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 3:51PM
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MediaTakeOut.com just heard that CRAZIEST RUMOR - but it came from a VERY CREDIBLE person.
Word in the Christian circle is that prophetess Juanita Bynum has a new love interest - Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles.
According to our source, Mathew ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 12:38PM
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Amel Larrieux re-emerged at New York’s SOB’s late last month, on October 27, to remind any and every fan that despite her hiatus, she hasn’t given up on music.
In fact, her band now includes her daughters and she’s “working on” a reunion album wit ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 12:22PM
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Post by Raiysa Epps
In my opinion, this is a prominent issue in my life and a topic of discussion way too much. I don’t understand who put this idea in my peers of the African American communities mind. A lot of people don’t like to discuss this is ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 12:15PM
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Thanksgiving Day is approaching and this post epitomizes in my mind the reasons we should give thanks. Somebody say AMEN!
By Greg Laurie
In the Old Testament, we find an interesting story of how King Jehoshaphat took an uncommon approach when his ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 9:17AM
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I heard Sharpton on the radio talking about how they fought to stop Brotha James statue from being put up here in augusta, and how they wouldn't let him play in his own city back in the day, but now those same businesses and people own and operate bu ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 6:32PM
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Today is National Entrepreneurs’ Day, the grand finale to National Entrepreneurship Week, as proclaimed by President Barack Obama. I found this proclamation to be exciting and encouraging for many reasons.
The first is because this campaign was br ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 8:25AM
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For Chike Akua and L. Kobie Wilkerson, the Black male graduation rate in America is absolutely unacceptable. Several months ago The Schott Foundation released its report finding that the national graduation rate for Black males was a lowly 47%, natio ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 8:08AM
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge ordered actor Wesley Snipes to surrender to authorities Friday so he can begin serving a three-year prison sentence for tax-related crimes. U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges in Ocala, Fla., rejecte ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 8:01PM
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