culture
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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…
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Elderly Grandmother Tied Up by Police During Raid
Ruth Hunter was stunned one morning earlier in April when her front door abruptly flew open and she heard shouts of “Police!” WTVR reports. “I thought someone was breaking in to rob or kill me,” the 75-year-old Virginia grandmother, who likes to keep to herself, told the news station. But it was state law enforcement conducting a…
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RHOA Smackdown Should Serve as a Wake-Up Call
Hand me a late pass. I finally watched a clip of The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion episode. (Sorry, since starring on reality TV, I stopped watching it.) Yes, the one where cast member Porsha Williams hit her co-star Kenya Moore over the head and dragged her across the floor by her hair like the…
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How a Man’s Love for Hunting Led to a Kidney Donation
Hunting helped save Gil Alexander’s life. It all started in 2008 when the Kansas farmer struck up a friendship with Rob Robinson, a 45-year-old firefighter from Mississippi who wanted to hunt on his property, the Associated Press reports. A few years later, Robinson returned again to the property to hunt, but at the same time…
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Kidnapper Releases Gospel-Singing Child
Gospel music may have saved little Willie Myrick’s life. Earlier in April the then-9-year-old was in his front yard in Atlanta when he bent down to pick up some money. At that point someone snatched him up and threw him into the back of a car, WXIA reports. According to Willie, his abductor told him…