With the racial tension continuing to build across the campuses of University of California, things may be on the verge of boiling past the point of return. Already fuming over the “Compton Cookout” and the noose found in one of the campus buildings, students were outraged with the announcement that a KKK-style hood was located […]
“Georgia’s unemployment crisis is deepening,” Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond said in a statement released early Wednesday. With a financial crisis that is showing no signs of diminishing, some states are still feeling the blunt trauma as the job market has ceased to open up nationally. Last reported back in January, the unemployment rate in Georgia […]
The educational system for the state of Georgia might be running into a roadblock if there is any chance in balancing out its budget. In trying to cut close to $600 million from its budget, colleges and universities within the state would be forced to lay off thousands of employees, severely limit freshman classes and […]
While February served as Black History Month and a time for Black American’s to celebrate their history, there have been many instances recently that show how much farther the country has to go before racism is eradicated. Students rallied together last Friday in protest of a noose that was hanging in a campus library at […]
“He loved to smile,’’ Rasheed Daley, 28, said of his brother. “He was always a kid at heart.’’ Something as mild as a person on his/her way to work resulted in a senseless tragedy as a 22-year-old man was shot and killed. With the incident occurring Saturday, the victim, Ramone Daley, was killed shortly after […]
Former Cash Money Hot Boy Juvenile and his producer Leroy Edwards were arrested Thursday (February 25), for possession of marijuana. According to reports, police responded to a call from a neighbor who reported that they smelled marijuana smoke coming from the rappers home. When police arrived at the house, according to reports, they were not […]
Stating that she was a victim of discrimination, a Black woman has started a petition to boycott against an Asian restaurant after being refused service. According to the woman, Monica Covington, restaurant owners and employees of Kampai Japanese Steak and Seafood House, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, refused to give her service making the allegations […]
“It’s really hard to see them hurt like this because we are really a family.” In an effort to makeover an under-performing high school, the vote was made by the U.S. school district to fire each and every teacher. With the high school being Central Falls High School, the Central Falls School Committee made the […]
Continuing to struggle during such tough economic times in the United Stated and trying to assist those in Haiti after suffered such tragedy, the country seems to need guidance and reassurance that a better day will come to fruition. On February 26 and 27, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will be in attendance for the […]
Occurring nearly three miles from where the Columbine High School happened 11 years, ago a middle school math teacher was able to stop a gunman from creating a new tragedy. Taking place in Littleton, Colorado, the suspected gunman was pacing through the parking lot of Deer Creek Middle School where he was taking shots at […]
“There’s not a day I wake up and I don’t feel sorry for what I did to Mr. Christofi,” Jayson Williams said. The day of reckoning has finally fallen upon former New Jersey Nets player Jayson Williams. Williams, 42, was sentenced to five years in prison, Tuesday, for the fatal shooting of his limousine driver […]
A Kentucky man is being charged for posting a poem on the Internet threatening President Barack k Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Placed on a white supremacist Web site, NewSaxon.org, Johnny Logan Spencer Jr., 27, wrote the poem, titled “The Sniper”, according to U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Stephan M. Pazenzia. An affidavit also […]
