According to Republican Rep. Jon Hubbard of Arkansas, African Americans were lucky to have endured slavery, which, he writes, was “a blessing in disguise,” reports the Arkansas Times. In excerpts from Hubbard’s self-published book, Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative, Hubbard also declares that blacks are ignorant and better off in America…

In Chicago, the murder rate is so high that the city made national news this summer, including reports of drive-by shootings. In response to the increasing violence, local CBS Chicago reporter Walter Jacobson sat down with about a dozen young black men, who he says are gang members, to hear their thoughts on the crime…

Between police and drug dealers, the war on drugs continues, and often it’s the informants who are walking the deadliest path. According to a New Yorker investigative piece, police are increasingly using young untrained men and women to tangle with high-level dealers. For some of the families of informants who have died at the hands…

It was hot in Atlanta last night during the filming of BET’s 2012 Hip-Hop Awards. According to MTV News, rival rappers Rick Ross and Young Jeezy got into a shoving match backstage, which spilled out into the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot. From there, details are conflicting.  Multiple sources who witnessed the fray confirmed to…

Incarceration has become one of America’s biggest businesses, but what about when felons are released? Are they no longer a part of society? In states like Florida, Mississippi and Nevada and others, 4 million people have been denied the right to vote because of past felony convictions, and there is confusion surrounding the issue. On…

On Thursday, host Whoopi Goldberg appeared to have nearly reached her limit on The View while interviewing Ann Coulter, Republican author and talking head, about her new book, Mugged. Coulter explained that the premise for the book is “that race-mongering has been very bad for America. Liberals use it to promote causes that have nothing to…

It’s often said that nothing is better than coming home, and for Jay-Z that phrase couldn’t be more true. On Friday night, the MC-businessman opened the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Barclays Center with the first of eight sold-out concerts in the borough where he was raised. While no hologram of fellow New York MC Notorious B.I.G. appeared,…

A man who has been on death row for 28 years may get a fresh chance at life. A Philadelphia judge stopped the execution of Terrance “Terry” Williams on Friday after discovering that a trial prosecutor “suppressed evidence the victim was molesting boys, “sanitized” witness statements before giving them to the defense and lied about…

On Saturday, a New York Times icon passed away. Arthur O. Sulzberger, 86, publisher and chairman and chief executive of the New York Times Company from 1963 to 1997, passed away at his home in Southampton, N.Y. Sulzberger grew the paper’s reach and was instrumental in making the newspaper a symbol of free speech and…