culture
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Shaquille O’Neal Has a LinkedIn Page … and It’s Great
With unemployment rates on a too-slow decline, one can never be too content with one’s current job situation—not even a future NBA Hall of Famer who is the “CEO, President at Alot of different companies. Inc.” That’s right: Shaquille O’Neal has a LinkedIn profile, which New York’s Daily News has confirmed is the former NBA center’s…
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North Carolina High School Student Accepted by 7 Ivy League Schools
When high school senior Patrick Peoples decided to apply to a number of Ivy League schools, he was doing it largely on a whim. “No one ever expects to get in,” the young man told WECT. “I just wanted to apply. Maybe I’ll get into one—maybe, just maybe.” But he did more than that. Peoples,…
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NYPD Commissioner Unfazed by #myNYPD Backfire
By now, the fiasco that was the #myNYPD campaign is well known, with Twitter quickly taking over the hashtag promotion, which was supposed to display New York’s Finest at their friendliest, and turning it into a channel to speak out (with withering sarcasm) about police brutality. As it turns out, however, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton…
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Dad: Stowaway Teen Missed Africa
The 15-year-old Hawaiian Airlines stowaway had problems with his life in America, particularly at school, and longed to return to Africa, the boy’s father said in an interview, USA Today reports. The Somali-born teenager, who miraculously survived a five-hour flight to Hawaii from California in the wheel well of a plane, was having difficulties adjusting…
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5 NY Hasidic Men Arrested in the Beating of a Black Gay Man
Police arrested five Hasidic men Wednesday in a mob attack against a gay black man in a case that was initially investigated as a bias attack, the New York Daily News reports. After a night of partying last December, fashion student Taj Patterson, 22, told authorities that he was headed to his home in Fort…
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Richard Sherman, NFL Players School Harvard Students on Race
Richard Sherman wants to make a couple of things clear: First, he was fully aware of the impact that his NFC championship game rant would cause and second, and maybe more importantly, he liked it that way. On Wednesday, the outspoken Seattle Seahawks cornerback told a standing-room-only crowd at the Harvard Business School that the…
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Nonviolent Criminals in Prison 10 Years Encouraged to Apply for Early Release
Deputy Attorney General James Cole on Wednesday released new criteria for clemency that officials will now consider when dealing with applicants, the Associated Press reports. Nonviolent offenders with a history of good behavior and no gang affiliations, who have already completed more than 10 years of a sentence, are being encouraged to apply for early…
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The KKK’s Recent Comeback Means That They Think They’re Losing
Last week CNN sparked a backlash with its headline, “Can the Klan Rebrand?” Their story was a look at the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to distance itself from its reputation as a violence-inciting hate group in the wake of former Klan Grand Dragon Frazier Glenn Miller being charged in a shooting spree that left three…
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Black CEO: Do More Than Save if You Want to Be Wealthy
Editor’s note: This is part 4 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3. Most people think the road to wealth involves just saving. But 62-year-old Kermit Payne, the successful founder and chief executive officer of a strategic communications, marketing and association management company, says that…
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Chris Brown’s Bodyguard Denied Immunity; Trial Delayed
Looks as if Chris Brown will have to wait to learn his fate regarding the alleged beating of a Maryland man. His trial, which was set to begin in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, has been put on hold for months and could be delayed as long as a year, the Associated Press reports. Brown’s bodyguard, Christopher…