New Voter ID Scheme: Pop Quizzes! Unsurprisingly, now that voter identification has become the law of the land in Arkansas, poll workers are wielding their…
It’s Now Possible to Text 911 Starting last week, the four major cell phone service providers — Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T — enabled…
Yes She Can: Brooklyn Eighth-Grader Publishes Two Novels On Her Own When 13-year-old Angela Content told her mother she was going to write a novel,…
Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You “Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!” merits the distinction of the most…
Diddy Wows Crowd In Emotional Commencement Speech At Howard University Graduation Chants roared from the crowd as attendees of Howard University’s 146th commencement waited to…
North Korean State Media Publishes Racist Screed Against Obama Most articles published by North Korea’s state-run news agency are translated into English, but not this…
Kansas City Bans Smoking Inside Public Housing Apartments It’s one thing to ban smoking from bars and restaurants, as Kansas City did in 2008 following…
Nigeria’s President Issues Directive That ‘Everything Must Be Done’ To Free Abducted Girls Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met with security, school and state officials and…
All Over Some Hair… Man Sentenced To 23 Years After Hair Weave Argument Ends In Senseless Death Denzel Holder. Yesterday, Holder, from Brooklyn, was sentenced…
Watch This Ginger Dude Teach African Dance to Cedric the Entertainer Jeff Hunsicker, a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, shared…
Shocking Number Of Innocent People Sentenced To Death, Study Finds More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably…
In Minneapolis, Columbus Day Becomes Indigenous People’s Day The 13-member Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to recognize another holiday on the same day as Columbus…