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Down in Alabama, a community is reeling after police report that a 14-year-old girl may have been the mastermind behind the gang rape of her classmate. The unnamed minor told reporters that she and her friend arranged to have sex with three boys from their high school early last week, one of which was the […]

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The proprietor of a Colorado car dealership has found himself in the midst of an unwelcomed, social firestorm after he ordered a controversial billboard to be placed above his lot. The sign features a cartoonized image of President Obama in a turban, while questioning his legitimacy as a citizen of the United States, capitalizing on […]

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Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group, the NAACP. Tyler’s contribution is the largest amount ever donated by an individual entertainer. The funds donated will be distributed to the organization during a four year period and were given in honor of the organization’s centennial anniversary. Benjamin Todd […]

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As the economy’s downturn continues to loom over America and employment remains to be a daily issue, the problem is almost magnified for the young males in the Black community. 34.5% of young Black men are unemployed. Reported in October, unemployment for African-American men between the ages of 16 and 24 has skyrocketed.  The percent […]

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The Federal Bureau of Investigations is currently at a dead end in at least 33 civil rights cases. The cases range from police brutality to killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. The FBI is asking for help from relatives of victims to help […]

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The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has found itself in the midst of another incident after video surfaced showing a BART officer slamming a man into a glass barrier at a transit station, shattering the glass. Though the man was acting unruly, this latest incident of police aggression by a BART officer brings into question […]

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            2010 is shaping up to be a landmark year for Harlem, New York. Known as the birth place of the Black artistic revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, denizens of this historic New York hollow have seen living conditions decline to a standard of living that would make so called “real” Americans cringe if they were […]

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Dominic Carter, cable news personality and political talking head extraordinaire, has been convicted in the attempted assault of his wife, Marilyn Carter. The move comes as a shock to fans of the longtime New York television staple, who has become the indelible voice of truth and reason as it pertains to local and state politics. […]

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Members of the NYPD shot and killed a teenager in Queens, Saturday after shooting him 11 times. 18-year-old Dashawn Vasconcellos, died of gunshot wounds to the torso, neck and extremities. According to chief NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne, police fired a total of 14 times with 11 of those bullets hitting the teen. The boy […]

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            Nearly one dozen cowards in white, and other various hued, sheets defiantly protested on the steps of Fulton Chapel which is located on the campus of the University of Mississippi. The belligerent bigots met briefly before the Ole Miss Rebels waged a gridiron battle against their overpowering opposition in the 10th ranked LSU Tigers, […]

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“Lose weight to graduate” is the mantra that administrators at Lincoln University are shouting to undergraduate students that are on the cusp of receiving their degrees. Designed to combat the health devouring monster known as obesity, which is especially prevalent within the Black community, faculty and staff at the Philadelphia Historically Black College have instituted […]

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A North Carolina man will never see the light of day again after being found guilty of scaring a 79-year old grandmother to death. 21-year old Larry Whitfield was found not guilty of murder Friday in the death of Mary Parnell last year. Jurors did find him guilty, however, of causing her death by kidnapping, […]