The Daily News is reporting that Rocawear has yanked hip-hop mogul Jay-Z’s Occupy Wall Street T-shirt line from its website after coming under heavy criticism for failing to promise to share profits with the movement. Rocawear announced on Thursday that it planned to sell the T-shirts for $22, but any trace of garments has now…

Friends and family are scheduled to attend a private funeral for rap legend Heavy D at a historic black church in a northern suburb of New York City. The funeral will be held on Friday, Nov. 18, at 11 a.m. at Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, with senior pastor the Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson…

Alexander Eichler at the Huffington Post reports that government aid has kept many Americans from sinking into abject poverty. The Census Bureau estimates that last year a record 46 million people lived below the poverty line, and revised figures released this week suggest that the number may in fact be more than that. But without…

The Associated Press is reporting that a 19th-century cemetery, believed to hold the remains of slaves, has been discovered at a former cotton plantation in Florida. The discovery of six gravesites was made last year at the Kingsley Plantation in Jacksonville, but the announcement was delayed to allow for further research and to alert possible…

In a painful moment during Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry could not remember the third federal agency he has vowed to eliminate. Transcript via CBS News: Perry was discussing his jobs plan and his flat tax plan when he said: “And I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when…

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines, granting long-overdue recognition to the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps, according to Sen. Kay R. Hagan (D-N.C.). Hagan led the bipartisan effort to pass the measure to honor the men with…

With the national black unemployment rate hovering at 16 percent, it has been tempting for some job seekers to consider hanging up their own shingle. Believe it or not, some small black business owners are thriving in this precarious economy, and it’s all about location, location, location. This week the National Urban League Policy Institute…

Growing up in the 1930s in Washington, D.C., Roscoe Brown made model airplanes and dreamed of flying like the pilots he saw during air races that his parents treated him to on weekends, he recalled recently. “Many of us as young African Americans wanted to fly but couldn’t because of segregation,” he told The Root…

MSNBC analyst Touré says it will be interesting to see how Republicans, who so far haven’t backed away from presidential hopeful Herman Cain despite numerous allegations of sexual harassment, react to the latest charge from a white woman, according to Real Clear Politics. Once again calling Cain the Republicans’ “new black friend,” Touré explains how…