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RIO DE JANEIRO — Stalking the halls of his one-time elementary school, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira killed 10 girls and two boys, most with shots to their heads even as children begged him to stop, witnesses said. Oliveira then took his own life after police gunfire struck his legs and sent him toppling down some stairs, […]
Remember Jimmy McMillian and his “Rent Is Too Damn High” campaign in New York City? A woman by the name of Felice, lives in Manhattan’s Upper West Side (near Central Park) where apartments rent for an average of $3,600, however, she managed to snag an apartment for $700 bucks. Granted the apartment is only 90 square […]
There are things that are earth shattering as you get older. Developing who you are as a person in public usually happens when you are a teenager. When you do it in midlife it opens up brand new doors. Coming out isn’t the easiest process. So imagine how challenging it would be if you grew […]
April 7th is World Health Day 2011. The World Health Organization(WHO) will introduce a six-point policy package to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance. We live in an era of medical breakthroughs with new wonder drugs available to treat conditions that a few decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of […]
(blackmediaSCOOP) DAMN! This is getting interesting. We toldya about Meredith Vieira likely leaving her gig later this year when her contract ends. She has co-hosted since 2006, when she replaced Katie Couric. Now word on the street is that MATT wants out too! Yep!
(blackmediaSCOOP) Japan has been struck by an earthquake once again: The USGS is reporting a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit near the east coast of Honshu, about 215 miles from Tokyo, where buildings reportedly shook for a full minute. A tsunami warning has been issued for a coastal area already ravaged by last month’s tsunami; a meter-high […]
We all have had moments in which we wish we could do something. The simple things in the world are the moments in which we connect to people on the most basic of levels. The moments in which we do something kind for someone else.It is the one things that empowers us and makes us […]
McDonald’s said Monday that it is planning a one-day hiring spree of 50,000 new workers on April 19 for its U.S. restaurants. McDonald’s hopes to get across the message, much as Starbucks Corp. has successfully done, that a job with it is not a dead end and can offer solid benefits and long-term career opportunities, which the company […]
Congratulations to Laila Ali and hubby Curtis Conway. The couple welcomed daughter Sydney on Monday, April 4th. Ali, 33, and husband Curtis Conway are also parents to son Curtis ‘C.J.’ Muhammad Jr., 2½. Check out her happy mommy tweet:
Lesley Stahl spends a year following the inspirational leader of a gospel music program for teenagers in Harlem and her students as they learn to sing this original American art form and build the confidence and character it inspires. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7361570n&tag=segementExtraScroller;housing#ixzz1IZAvrXV4
Manning Marable, an influential historian of the black experience in the United States and the author of a forthcoming biography that will redefine the legacy of Malcolm X., died Friday in New York. He was 60. The Columbia professor spent 20 years working on a bombshell biography of Malcolm X but died Friday, just three […]
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated today in Memphis, Tenn. on 4-4-1968. King was in Memphis supporting workers in a struggle over wages, benefits and working conditions when he was killed. For the next 48 hours, the nation burned, riots swept 168 cities and federal troops were even called in to guard the U.S. Capitol. […]