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Fantasia enters Billboard 200 at No. 2

publisher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:52:00 GMT

Whether because of the radio success of single Bittersweet or media coverage of her recent personal issues, nearly 117,000 people bought copies of Fantasia's new Back to Me album -- enough for her to enter The Billboard 200 chart at No. 2. According to...(read more)

Investigator: Arrest of Morehouse grads rekindles racism accusations

publisher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:47:00 GMT

The arrest of two black men at a Warehouse District bar is rekindling accusations of racism in one of the city's hottest night spots. It comes less than six weeks after Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announced that the city had arranged for federal prosecutors...(read more)

NFL Player Makes A Difference...No, a "BIG" Difference

publisher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:29:00 GMT

On a cool August afternoon, George Wilson took the time to walk the talk. This wasn't about his exulted status as an NFL player, his role as a captain for the Buffalo Bills , or an appearance in a Mary J. Blige music video earlier this year. No, his chat...(read more)

Fisk On The Brink : Should Be Relieved of Responsibility to Art Collection, Judge Says

publisher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:02:00 GMT

Selected work from the Stieglitz Collection. A judge on Friday rejected Fisk University's latest attempt to sell to an Arkansas museum a joint stake in a 101-piece collection donated to the school by the late artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Judge Ellen Hobbs...(read more)

Imprisoned wide receiver Burress denied work release

publisher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:53:00 GMT

Former New York Giants Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has come up short in his bid for work release during his two-year prison sentence in a gun case, a denial that could keep him behind bars until at least next spring, prison officials said Tuesday....(read more)

DA Fights Release Of Alleged Beating Video

publisher — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:40:00 GMT

Andrew Bloomberg, Raad Hassan, Drew Ryser, Phillip BryanHarris County District Attorney Pat Lykos and defense attorneys for four indicted police officers have filed a motion in court to keep a video tape from being released to the public. The video tape...(read more)

Revisiting Black History on Martha’s Vineyard

publisher — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:31:00 GMT

As a getaway for two Democratic presidents, including the current one, Martha’s Vineyard is often disparaged as an undemocratic haven for wealthy white elites. Kathlyn Joy Gilliam and Lorraine Parson thought differently from what they had read in black...(read more)

Blood Clot Risk From Stents Seen in African-Americans

publisher — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:19:00 GMT

African-Americans may be at an increased risk for developing life-threatening blood clots after receiving drug-coated stents that are meant to keep their arteries open, new research shows. The study is published in Circulation: Journal of the American...(read more)

Forbes Magazine: Glenn Beck Inc

publisher — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:35:00 GMT

In his empire there's the ideology--and then there's the money machine. Five and a half hours before showtime Glenn Beck still isn't quite sure how he'll provide tonight's entertainment, "The Future of History"--two hours of monologue (and answers to...(read more)

Jonathan Capehart: The shame of Alveda King

publisher — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:19:00 GMT

Every famous family has a member or three who do things that leave you in "oh no (s)he didn't" disbelief. Usually it's the Jackson family (Michael, not Jesse). Hello? Rebbie? LaToya? Jermaine? But they're not in the cross hairs today. That honor goes...(read more)

Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. : Why I Joined Glenn Beck's Rally

publisher — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:45:00 GMT

The 2010 election cycle is likely to be filled with mystery, wonder and surprise. Both major parties, the tea party movement and myriad other groups will be vying to have their voices heard above the political din. Saturday continued the noise. Two rallies...(read more)

Lawmaker awarded CBC scholarship money to relatives

publisher — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:42:00 GMT

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) admitted to awarding thousands of dollars in scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children in violation of rules set by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the funds. The Dallas...(read more)

Black and Jewish, and Seeing No Contradiction

publisher — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:54:00 GMT

Shais Rison, left, and Yitzchak Jordan are black Orthodox Jews, a rarity in New York and the nation. In yeshivas, they are sometimes taunted as “monkeys” or with the Yiddish epithet for blacks. At synagogues and kosher restaurants, they engender blank...(read more)

Washington Post : Five myths about mosques in America

publisher — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:32:00 GMT

In addition to spawning passionate debates in the public, the news media and the political class, the proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York has revealed widespread misconceptions about the practice of Islam in this country...(read more)

Al Sharpton : "They may have the Mall, but we have the message!"

publisher — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:26:00 GMT

While Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and their 'tens of thousands" of followers gathered to flip off Abraham Lincoln and the Civil Rights Movement, I joined tens of, if not a hundred thousand other people and rallied and marched to Reclaim the Dream. We rallied...(read more)