(philly.com) A stabbing and a shooting yesterday in West Philadelphia brought the year’s homicide total to 305.
Shortly before 2 p.m., authorities were called to 59th and Race Streets, where they found Dashon Black, 19, of West Philadelphia, shot in the head and chest inside a residence.
Black was rushed to the Hospital of the University of [...]
(newhavenindependent.org) Nearly 100 African-American, Latino, and Orthodox Jewish men followed Bishop T.L. Brooks through four violence-plagued blocks in Newhallville, and called on the community to put their heads together to find a way to stop the gunfire throughout the city.
“I am charging all you men here with the responsibility of reaching out to these young [...]
I think I already mentioned this on this site before. Anyway, here is the link to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
Check it out!
(Reuters Life!) – Forget the handsome face, broad shoulders or flirty grin, a deep voice is what attracts women and makes men likely to have more children, researchers said on Tuesday.
“We think it’s sort of like a peacock’s tail,” said David Feinberg, an assistant professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
“A peacock’s tail doesn’t help [...]
Nationalplatforms.com is one of the latest in political websites that functions as a centralized location to get the platform positions of all the current presidential candidates. While it is still a work in process, you may want to keep this in your bookmarks as we get closer to the election season.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball’s fate, and Wednesday [...]
(ballerstatus.com) The wrongful death suit of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. just got a little more complicated recently, when a prison inmate who had implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the shooting of the rapper renounced his story, making the unsolved case even that more of a mystery.
According to the Los Angeles Times, [...]
(AllAfrica.com/ipsnews.net) Every night besides the town hall of Athens, next to Omonia square, where the narrow streets of the popular entertainment hub district Psirris begin, black girls from Nigeria gather to work.
Dressed provocatively, they approach people who pass by and offer their services. “Come on baby I know you want me”, you hear one say [...]
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