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You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But  You Don't Know What 'The Harlem 'Hellfighters' Did to Win The War

You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But You Don’t Know What ‘The Harlem ‘Hellfighters’ Did to Win The War

There are many Black people who served in the U.S. Army with honor. Let's give them their flowers.
Sole Survivor Explains How He's Alive After Air India Crash

Sole Survivor Explains How He’s Alive After Air India Crash

An Air India flight crash that claimed over 240 lives had one remarkable sole survivor.
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The Very Short List of Black Celebs Speaking Out Against Trump’s ICE Raids

Although the list is short, folks like Doechii, Vic Mensa and Ava DuVernay are not
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband 'Target of Political Assasination' but It Gets Worse

White George Floyd Advocate and Husband ‘Target of Political Assasination’ but It Gets Worse

This is a sad day for America. But we all knew something like this coming.
  • Brown Bag Test: Whatcha Got for Lunch?

    When my children were younger, I did everything I could to arrest their weight gain. Overweight during both pregnancies, I knew each was born with more fat cells than average.  That’s my fault. My responsibility is to make sure those fat cells stay lean. Years of elementary school lunches started showing up on Trey and…

  • A Quick Breakdown of Obama's Health Care Speech

    Here’s a nice liveblogging breakdown of what the president had to say today regarding health care reform. General tone: Let’s get this done. Three things that President Obama would change in health care system:1. Pre-existing conditions would not be a factor. Doctors should decide what’s best for patients.2. Give uninsured same choice of private insurance…

  • 20 Years Later: Hank Gathers

    A really nice profile on Hank Gathers, the Loyola-Marymount star who collapsed twenty years ago on the court [I]it was March, and time for a West Coast Conference quarterfinal game game against Portland. Time for Gathers and the Lions to make their run. Sitting in the stands alongside Hank’s mom on that March day in…

  • Naomi on the Lam! Supermodel Wanted for Questioning in Assault Case

    Naomi Campbell may not yet have learned to keep her hands to herself Super-hot Naomi Campbell is sought by the New York Police for questioning, but not arrest and want the supermodel to appear after an assault claim. According to the New York Daily News, 27 year old Miodrag Mejdina claims the apparently super-strong Naomi…

  • Read/React: Obama, Congress Lets Surveillance Abuses Slide

    Julian Sanchez of The American Prospect takes Obama and the Congress to task over reauthorization of the Patriot Act. An excerpt Here’s how it was supposed to be. Under his administration, candidate Barack Obama explained in 2007, America would abandon the “false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.” There would…

  • Homemade Explosive Goes Off in Detroit School

    Authorities have a 14-year-old student in custody following the detonation of a homemade bomb at Detroit’s Phoenix Multicultural School The device, made of household cleaning chemicals, exploded in the hallway of the building at about 8:30 a.m., said school officials. School officials said no students were injured because they were all inside classrooms.Police said the…

  • GM, Nissan Recall Over 1M Vehicles

    GM and Nissan join Toyota in the ranks of car makers who need to take their stuff back because it may get somebody killed General Motors Co. is recalling 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac vehicles in North America to fix power-steering systems after federal regulators received more than 1,100 consumer complaints about failures. Nissan Motor…

  • Paterson Remains Defiant as Scandal Grows

    David Paterson remains steadfast despite the resignation of two top law enforcement officials in the wake of the growing domestic abuse scandal Just hours after Paterson told reporters Tuesday that he wouldn’t resign because of his intervention in the domestic violence case involving a key aide, State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt abruptly announced he would…

  • Rangel Steps Aside from Key Chairmanship

    Rep. Charles Rangel (D, New York) has taken a “leave of absence”from his powerful position as the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Rangel said Wednesday morning that he would temporarily step aside to let an ethics investigation into possible rules violations run its course. The Harlem Democrat had been under a lot of pressure to step aside the…