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Abbey Lincoln, the exquisitely talented singer whose metaphor-laden songs, seductive voice and outsized personality made her an iconic figure in jazz, died Saturday. She was 80. Lincoln passed away in her upper West Side apartment, her brother David Wooldridge told The New York Times. In a career that spanned six decades, Lincoln recorded more than […]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who came under fire for repeatedly using the N-word while on-air with a caller, is ditching her show at the end of the year “to regain my First Amendment rights,” she announced Tuesday night. The 63-year-old Schlessinger used the racial epithet 11 times in 5 minutes while trying to make a point […]
For the fourth consecutive year, U.S.News & World Report has produced a ranking of the undergraduate education at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). These colleges were compared only with one another for these rankings. How did we choose the schools to be part of the survey? In order to be on the list, a […]
Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting the NewsCorp the Rupert Murdoch owned parent company of Fox News, has donated $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association. Read the full story here. RELATED STORIES: Only 1 Percent Of Fox News’ Primetime Viewers Are Black Former DNC Chair Howard Dean: “Fox News Is Absolutely Racist”
Shirley Sherrod has emailed an open letter defending herself and the NAACP, while attacking conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart and the Tea Party. Here is the letter: Back in March, I delivered a speech to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet in my home state of Georgia. I drew on my personal life story to urge poor […]
From the AJC.com: A Hall County couple were among the 130 people who survived a plane crash in the Caribbean. The couple, Carolina and David Bellino of Flowery Branch, were on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday. “I have a fracture in my back and I cannot move,” Carolina said, “and my husband has a fracture […]
The Oprah Winfrey Network hasn’t even launched yet and already a lawsuit has been filed against the cable upstart by a former employee – who, by the way, says her legal action was a long time coming. On Friday, Catherine Dunn sued for wrongful termination and discrimination claiming she was fired because of her Multiple […]
Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield plans to step back into the ring in November against journeyman Sherman Williams at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 knockouts) will be 48 when fights for the first time since knocking out 41-year-old Frans Botha in the eighth round in April in Las Vegas. The 37-year-old Williams […]
African American couples are more likely than other groups to share core religious beliefs and pray together in the home — factors that have been linked to greater happiness in marriages and relationships, according to a study released Tuesday. In what was described as the first major look at relationship quality and religion across racial […]
From the AJC.com: A crowd of people hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd. Thousands of people were lined up at the Tri-Cities Plaza shopping center, hoping to apply for a voucher from the East Point Housing Authority that will give them a […]
By the year 2042, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution, the United States will be “majority-minority”—more than half the population will be made up of ethnic and racial groups currently in the minority: blacks and Hispanics. Demographers at Brookings, a widely respected think tank known for its usually moderate stance, came to this conclusion […]
From CNN: Fantasia Barrino overdosed on “aspirin and a sleep aid” Monday night, but her injuries are not life-threatening, her manager said. The overdose came the same day she read a court complaint from a woman who alleged that Barrino carried on a year-long affair with her husband, according to manager Brian Dickens. “Fantasia is […]