Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains is a black man.
Clarence Otis Jr. Is the CEO of Darden Restaurants Inc., the larg ...
Posted Saturday, November 21st 2009 at 8:31PM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
The following selections are excepts from a speech which was written by Minister Farrakhan in 1993 after the inauguration of former President U.S. Bill Clinton.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
The root of the probl ...
Posted Saturday, November 21st 2009 at 7:00PM
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Peace Dear and Wonderful Family of Mine!
Words are inadequate to express such beautiful and heartfelt private messages on the anniversary of the day of me joining this site. I have made such growth and development during the time we have known ea ...
Posted Saturday, November 21st 2009 at 5:29PM
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Evan Chandler -- the father of Jordan Chandler, who accused Michael Jackson of molesting him -- was found dead early this month of a gunshot wound to the head, the New York Post reports.
The 65-year-old former dentist was discovered in his Jersey ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2009 at 1:06PM
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CHICAGO – Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led her to her decision.
Winfrey told the audience that she l ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2009 at 11:41AM
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Peace To All:
I've seen so many anti Obama rhetoric e-mails come to my laptop since he was elected about nine months now. Why is the Whiteman mad?
1. We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!
2. You didn't get mad when th ...
Posted Thursday, November 19th 2009 at 5:56PM
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With the year 2010 rapidly approaching, what would be the top news story of 2009?
1. Barack Obama Inauguration
2. Micheal Jackson
Cast your vote below!!! ...
Posted Wednesday, November 18th 2009 at 8:29PM
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Whenever something as violent and tragic as the recent murders at Fort Hood happens, the Stupidity Index seems to go off the charts. People are looking for quick, simplistic explanations and solutions to matters that are complex and old.
I'm not sur ...
Posted Wednesday, November 18th 2009 at 7:08PM
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A shocking 45 percent of the nation's estimated 131,000 homeless veterans are African-American, according to a new report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a well-known advocacy and research organization.
And, just as shocking, accordi ...
Posted Saturday, November 14th 2009 at 5:53PM
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From The Huffington Post
Printed on November 7, 2009
President Obama has had a hard time dislodging misperceptions about his health care proposal — those stubborn beliefs that there are death panels and free care for illegal aliens that don't a ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 12:48PM
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RIVER RIDGE, LOUISIANA--Two suspects have been arrested in the death of Paige DeJean, the 7-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet that ripped through the wall of her River Ridge apartment, authorities said today.
Andre Preston, 21, 428 Webster S ...
Posted Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 7:52PM
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WALTERBORO, S.C. — A South Carolina mother fruitlessly tried to shield her 20-month-old toddler from a barrage of bullets in a drive-by shooting that killed the baby and two adults and injured at least five others, relatives said Tuesday.
Relati ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 12:10PM
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Seven years ago this month, the captured Beltway snipers -- John Allen Muhammad, then 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 -- were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the W ...
Posted Monday, November 9th 2009 at 4:44PM
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Kordeza Zhelyazkova, an 11 year old girl from Bulgaria, just gave birth to her daughter, making her the world’s youngest mother. While Kordeza and the baby are healthy and in high spirits, Jeliazko, the 19 year old father of the child, now faces si ...
Posted Thursday, November 5th 2009 at 10:17PM
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A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face.
Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.
Jeziorkows ...
Posted Wednesday, November 4th 2009 at 10:38AM
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DETROIT — Hundreds of people offered hushed prayers Saturday at the funeral for a slain Detroit mosque leader while authorities across the border in Canada made the final two arrests in a criminal case that is stirring some anger in the Muslim comm ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 3:16PM
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SALT LAKE CITY – A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald’s has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city.
The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-th ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 3:12PM
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The death of Derrion Albert, a young man with a promising future, has stunned the city of Chicago and the nation. Captured via cell phone video, the violent assault that took the life of a good young man has likely been witnessed by thousands of peop ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 5:05PM
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A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home.
Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Anthony Sowell ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2009 at 7:36PM
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