Why Wendy Williams is Clapping Back at a Lawsuit Filed on Her Behalf
The Words Cassie Spewed in Audio Played at Diddy Trial Made Public, And What She Said May Shock You
Atlanta Dad Found Guilty of Fatally Starving His Own 4-Year-Old— And the Details Only Get Worse From There
Jasmine Crockett’s Comments Shading Trump Supporters Just Sparked a Fiery Clapback From Trump’s White House Secretary
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Behind Uganda's World Cup Terror Blasts
Watching the World Cup finale in New York City on Sunday, conversation inevitably turned to South Africa’s performance as host. While the media had forecast terror attacks, crime waves and infrastructure disasters, football fans at the bar all agreed that South Africa deserved praise for doing Africa proud on the world stage. Sadly, the much-predicted…
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Cavs Owner Responds to Jesse Jackson; Fined by NBA Commissioner Stern
Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is cooling off. It may have something to do with being fined $100,000 by NBA commissioner David Stern for his open letter to embattled former player LeBron James. James announced that he was leaving Cleveland for the Miami Heat during a prime-time special on ESPN. We’re not sure if it…
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Whoopi Goldberg: Mel Gibson Is Not Racist
What is the world coming to when mental lightweights like Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd are the voice of reason on The View? On Monday’s episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg defended Mel Gibson, saying that “he is not a racist.” What we heard sounded like racism. Getting “raped by a pack of N@#%^%” sounds…
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Plantation Fantasy II: Bachmann Says Obama Is Creating a 'Nation of Slaves'
Oh, to be a pretty white woman in America, because you can say anything. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) believes that President Barack Obama is turning the United States into a “nation of slaves.” Really. Her basis for this is that the legislation that the Democrats in the White House and Congress have put forth amounts…
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Minorities See Little Green in BP Oil Spill Jobs
Ever since the BP oil spill disaster began, a glut of contracts and jobs has surfaced. But who is benefiting? If you got an oil spill contract from the federal government, more than likely you are white. If you’re not white, and you’re fortunate enough to be working in the oil cleanup, then you’re likely…
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The World's Worst Dictators and Their Tumultuous Rule
By George B.N. Ayittey A continent away from Kyrgyzstan, Africans like myself cheered this spring as a coalition of opposition groups ousted the country’s dictator, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. “One coconut down, 39 more to harvest!” we shouted. There are at least 40 dictators around the world today, and approximately 1.9 billion people live under the…
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The Rainbow Black Greeks
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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Prince Pines for Paris; Plays Guitar With Stevie Wonder
You may be familiar with the controversy, but Prince has said in recent weeks that the Internet is over. Tired of not being able to get advances from iTunes, he is distributing his new album 20Ten via European newspapers. The album will be a free insert. This isn’t a first for Prince but is becoming…
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BP Tests Cap That Might Stop Gushing Crude
It looks like BP may have found a cure for the cancer that is the BP oil spill, the worst oil disaster in the history of the nation. BP is using deep-sea robots to place a tighter fitting cap on the gushing crude in an effort to finally get it to stop. The 18-foot-high, 150,000-pound…
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Convicted Sex Offender Asks Cop for Directions to Children's Pageant
Straight from the “you’re your own worst enemy” file, convicted sex offender Michael Lynn Light was arraigned for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after failing to comply with a request by police officers. Light was riding his bike through a closed-off section of a street, posing a threat to passersby. Police officer asked him to…