PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille abruptly resigned Friday after less than five months on the job in a political setback for President Michel Martelly, whose struggle to fill the top government post has hampered earthquake reconstruction and other development efforts. Conille handed in a two-sentence letter of resignation, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he had not yet been authorized to publicly release the information. No successor has been…
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February 24, 2012
It is being reported that former NBA superstar Allen Iverson is now going broke. While the star has not officially declared bankruptcy, his desperate attempts to play overseas and recent seizures of his bank accounts have let the cat out the bag. Iverson has recently played on squads in Turkey and Puerto Rico. Also, a Georgia judge froze Iverson’s bank accounts after he was unable to repay a jeweler for $900,000…
During the last three months of the New York school year, an average five school kids were arrested per day. Of the students who were arrested, 90 percent were African American or Latino. According to an NYPD report, from October 1 to December 31 of 2011, 279 students were arrested and another 532 students were issued summonses. Click to read More
In the video below, Dr. Boyce Watkins discusses his interaction with Michael Eric Dyson during their debate on the state of hip hop at Brown University. The video is below and will begin after a brief advertisement.
The family of former football player Dave Duerson today launched a wrongful death suit against the NFL. They claim the league did not do enough to prevent or treat the concussions that severely damaged the Chicago Bears star’s brain before he killed himself last year. The suit was filed in Chicago on behalf of Mr Duerson’s son, Tregg, and three other children. Mr Duerson died on February 17,…