Mother Allegedly Bashes Her 6-Year-Old Daughter’s Head in with Hammer, But How She Involves Her Son is Truly Chilling
How This Mother’s Testimony Might Have Just Landed Her Own Son a Murder Case
Philly Cops Allegedly Tased This Black Man for This?!
How ‘Unwoke’ Black America Thought They Had it Made But Played Into the Far Right’s Decades-Long Master Plan to Elevate a Figure Like Trump
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Miss Haiti Gives Hope to Devastated Country
Sarodj Bertin, the reigning Miss Haiti, is a lawyer who speaks four languages fluently. Born into privilege in Port-au-Prince, she fled with her father and siblings to the neighboring Dominican Republic after the murder of her mother, whom she calls her idol. It is there that she studied law and worked for the International Alliance…
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Glenn Beck Rally Spurs Countermarches
By DeNeen Brown Social activists and civil rights leaders, among them the Rev. Al Sharpton, are planning marches and demonstrations — including the unveiling of a nearly four-story original sculpture on the Mall — on Aug. 28 to coincide with a rally organized by Fox News personality Glenn Beck. Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, with former…
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Shirley Sherrod Pens Letter to the NAACP
The NAACP sent us a copy of a letter that appears to have been written by former USDA staffer Shirley Sherrod. In the letter, Sherrod expressed her continued support of the civil rights organization and acknowledged NAACP President Ben Jealous’ apologies for having denounced her, including a mea culpa that took place in her living…
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Erykah Badu Gets Probation for Stripping
Soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu is still dealing with the fallout from her controversial music video “Window Seat,” in which the singer disrobed at the site where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Badu has paid a $500 fine and will serve six months’ probation for stripping off her clothes to film the music…
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U.S. Circumcisions Drop Drastically
According to an article on our sister site Double X, The New York Times reported today that circumcision rates have declined drastically in the United States, from 56 percent in 2006 to 32.5 percent last year. What’s the problem? Although the exact relationship between circumcision and the prevention of certain diseases — from AIDS on…
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Basic Instinct: Ovulating Women Choose Sexier Clothing
It seems that women who are ovulating choose sexier clothing. A recent study by the University of Minnesota has found a causal link between ovulating women and clothing choices, which they hope will help them market products better. “The desire for women at peak fertility to unconsciously choose products that enhance appearance is driven by…
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Part 2: Interview with a Vegan
This is my second day of my Week of Vegetarianism, and I really enjoyed choosing foods with a higher level of consciousness than before. I thought I had certain things in the pantry and freezer, but turns out the black beans were M.I.A. So instead of a black bean burrito for lunch, I had fab…
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Israel's Next Top Model: Soldier in Facebook Controversy Defends Prisoner Photos
Apparently, posing next to bound Palestinian detainees and posting the photos on Facebook is no big deal — that is according to Eden Abergil, the Israeli soldier who did the deed. The Israeli military is not laughing, condemning the photos that appeared in Abergil’s Facebook photo album entitled, “The Best Years of My Life,” and…
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James J. Kilpatrick, Conservative Commentator, Dies
One of the leaders of the Massive Resistance movmement in Virginia has passed away. James J. Kilpatrick, the conservative commentator and former editor of The Richmond News Leader, has died after a long illness. Kilpatrick railed against the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. He used his column and the newspaper to champion…