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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Osas Ighodaro Crowned Miss Black America
Miss Black Connecticut Osas Ighodaro has been crowned Miss Black America 2010. Ms. Ighodaro is a professionally trained actress, and she performed her winning talent: “What If I Am a Black Woman” in four dialects. She holds a B.A. in broadcast journalism from Pennsylvania State University. She is also a master of fine arts degree…
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Mortgage Rates at a New Low
Mortgage rates have hit a new low. The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.44 percent this week, the lowest since Freddie Mac began keeping records in 1971. That’s down from 4.49 percent last week and from 5.19 percent a year ago. The rate is the lowest recorded since 1953, according to the…
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19 Dead in Nigerian Building Collapse
A three-story building collapsed in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Wednesday. Nineteen people were killed and 12 people were rescued. The building collapsed around 5 a.m. (12 a.m. ET) in the Garki area of Abuja, said deputy police spokesman Yemi Ajayi. The cause of the collapse is under investigation. Read more at CNN. —Nsenga K. Burton
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The Once and Future Black Press
When it comes to black-oriented news media, we have a mixed bag: There is the kind of buzz that was created in 2007 by college-student blogs, e-mails and text messages alerting the nation to a major injustice in Jena, La., where six black youths faced felony assault charges stemming from a fight with a white…
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Bake Sales for Biloxi
In Moss Point, Miss., about 30 miles east of Biloxi, the Prairie family needs materials to finish repairing their home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Unlike New Orleans, where 80 percent of the housing stock was flooded because of faulty levees, areas in coastal Mississippi took a direct hit from Katrina. In their case, 175-mph winds…
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Single-Minded: 'White Girl Problems'
Sitting through Eat Pray Love, the movie in three parts based on the best-selling book in three verbs, the same three words kept coming to mind: white-girl problems. Earlier that day, Twitter suggested I follow an entire feed, @whitegrlproblem, dedicated most hilariously to the pretend crisis of #whitegirlproblems. Each new tweet is a punch line…
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Mitrice Richardson's Remains Found
Update at 11:53 pm ET, August 12: Sadly, skeletal remains found in a ravine in the Malibu, Calif., area have been identified as those of Mitrice Richardson. According to NBC Los Angeles, her father, Michael Richardson, said, “This book is not closed. More chapters need to be written. We are going to hold people accountable.…
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Swizz Beatz Has Serious Financial Woes
Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean is in some serious financial trouble. It seems that the man who just wed R&B’s most eligible bachelorette, Alicia Keys, has 35 different tax liens. It had been reported that Dean owed more than $2.4 million in taxes, but news of the tax liens recently surfaced. We won’t mention child support…