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The big controversy over a winning Mega Millions ticket continues in the Baltimore area. McDonald’s employee and mother of seven Mirlande Wilson says she bought the winning ticket in Baltimore County. She had gone into a pool of lottery tickets with her McDonald’s coworkers but says she bought those tickets at a separate time for […]
Kevin Cunningham never thought the petition that he started would collect over 2 million signatures in a one month period. A 31-year-old Howard University student, created Change.org petition in order to voice his opinion and to get George Zimmerman, the shooter of Trayvon Martin arrested. When he suggested starting an online appeal calling for prosecution of […]
Radio One DC’s Award Winning News/CommunityAffairs Director Sheila Stewart Segways Now On The Tom Joyner Morning Show Congratulations are in order to Radio One’s Award Winning News and Community Affairs Director Sheila Stewart. The 25-year radio/TV/print media veteran is now anchoring the “Morning News” on The Syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show weekdays from 6am until […]
(Annandale, VA) — Fairfax County police officers continue to investigate an apparent murder-suicide in Annandale. Officers were called to a home in the 38-hundred block of Forest Grove Drive early Tuesday morning and found the bodies of 40-year-old John Jackson his 13-year-old daughter, Alexis in an SUV parked in the driveway. John Jackson was a […]
(Washington, DC) — Maryland U.S. Senator Ben Cardin is backing legislation to combat racial profiling following the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Cardin’s bill would link federal funding to anti-racial profiling policies. Basically, local and state law enforcement could lose federal money if they lack the policies. Trayvon Martin is the African American high school […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The NAACP DC Branch supports the March for Justice for Trayvon Martin led by School Without Walls students on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. This march will begin at 12 Noon at School Without Walls Senior High School located at 2130 G Street, NW Washington, DC. The march will lead up 22nd Street […]
No George Clooney didn’t go thugged out. The actor was arrested today by the Park Police while protesting human rights abuses outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C. They look happy being arrested. Maybe because they brought attention to their protest and know they will be cut loose even before they even reach the gate. […]
So one of our listeners posted a Twitter photo of a foul anti-Obama bumper sticker that tells voters “Don’t Re-Nig” in the 2012 presidential election. The photo was taken of a truck they were driving behind in Virginia. We can’t tell if it’s a thoughtless oversight or a downright offensive pun calling President Obama the N-Word […]
WHAT: President Barack Obama will deliver remarks about American energy and highlight the important role community colleges play in partnering with businesses to provide innovative solutions to address the country’s energy concerns. WHO: President Barack Obama Charlene M. Dukes, president, Prince George’s Community College WHEN: March 15, 10:55 a.m. WHERE: Novak Field House, Prince George’s […]
The Washington Washington Football Team made an aggressive push to improve their wide receiving corps Tuesday, adding two veteran pass catchers in the first hours of free agency to bolster last year’s ineffective offense, which is now expected to feature rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III. The Washington Football Team agreed to terms with wide receivers Pierre Garcon, formerly […]
Who: The Dorothy I. Height Education Foundation and the National Council of Negro Women (www.NCNW.org) What: A kick-off of the weeklong call for service marking the centennial birthday of civil rights, women rights and social activist Dorothy Height, who died in 2010 at 98 years. The 2-hour kick-off service will be a celebration of music […]
