A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
In Minnesota Assassination Attempt, Wife’s Split-Second Decision is a Testament to a Mother’s Love
KWN, ‘The Female Version of Chris Brown’ Got Black Men Worried And For Good Reason
Oklahoma Black Man Hit By Patrol Car During Jaywalking Arrest, and That’s Not Even the Most Infuriating Part
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Blog Noir: "CBC, NAACP and the Effectiveness of the Report Card"
CPL of Jack and Jill Politics weighs in on the report card she helped develop for the CBC Lately, it seems that a whole lot of organizations and think tanks have the same idea regarding Congress. Evaluate and grade the performance of legislators who maintain they are representing the best interests of the districts that…
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Duke Lax Accuser Charged with Attempted Murder, Arson
Duke Lax accuser Crystal Gale Mangum hasn’t gotten a clue yet. Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him. Her bond was set at $1 million. Mangum has been appointed a public…
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Davis Wins Speedskating Gold
Shani Davis won the 1,000 meter mens speedskating event last night. If you’re unawares, this is something of a thing because Davis is Black and the Winter Olympics isn’t the most…colorful sporting event on the block. And in knowing this, Paul Newberry of The AP had this to say The color of the medal mattered,…
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Freed Missionaries Land in US
Eight missionaries have been freed after three weeks of detention in Haiti while being investigated for the attempted removal of thirty-three children from the country without proper documentation. Two remain in country as the investigation continues because, quake or no quake, paperwork is a must when trying to remove children from their homeland. he group’s…
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Somali Islamists Clash in Southern Town
Somali Islamists are battling to control a town near the Kenya border. That it and of itself doesn’t particularly interest the State Department until a little al-Qaeda love got into the mix. Resident Dahir Siyad says hundreds of fighters from Hizbul Islam forced militants from al-Shabab out of town after a pre-dawn attack Thursday. The…
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Kenyan Peace Tenuous as Leaders Feud
Kenya’s president and prime minister are feuding as Kenya’s tenuous peace grows flimsier by the day. Relations between the two leaders – never strong to begin with – broke down this week over the attempted dismissals of two Cabinet ministers accused of corruption. In the streets of Kenya’s capital, dozens of protesters marched in front…
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Stew’s Strange New Act
Stew chuckled last week when I started our interview with the old war horse question, “What motivated the new work?” It’s not an original question. Every journalist from a cub reporter at a high school paper to a Pulitzer Prize winner has it in their arsenal, but for Stew it seems entirely appropriate, maybe too…
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Green Is the New Black
The office of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson lies halfway between Congress and the White House. The placement is appropriate; the 48-year-old New Orleans native—the first African American to run the agency tasked with protecting the air, water and health of Americans—walks a line between action and negotiation every day. She keeps a copy…
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What Is the Real Black History Footer?
It’s Black History Month yet again. With several years of university teaching under my belt, I’ve begun to wonder what black history my students have actually learned during this month or any month before entering college. It’s clear the students know a version of black history that moves rather quickly from slavery to Reconstruction to…
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Would You Let Serena Williams Do Your Nails?
I know it sounds like an outlandish question, but apparently Serena Williams is one of Palm Beach, Fla.’s budding nail technicians. This, ladies and gents, is not a game for Ms. Williams. “Don’t be surprised if you hear about a part-time job I’ve picked up at a local nail salon,” she wrote on the celebrity…