Lanier W. Phillips, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at the Age of 88
Lanier W. Phillips, a prominent civil rights activist who was so deathly afraid of white people that he wouldn’t look them in the eye until he was saved by a group of them in 1942, died Sunday at age 88 in a retirement home in Gulfport, Mississippi. The great grandson of a Georgia slave, Phillips story is a [...]
Rumor Has It: Oprah Offers Bobbi Kristina $1 Million Dollar Job?
Oprah will be the first to interview Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina, well now we’ve learned she may have offered Bobbi Kristina a job at her network OWN. The $1 million dollar job offer comes with strings. We’re told Bobbi Kristina can “earn the money over time if she stays off drugs and [...]
Iverson Bought New Wardrobe for Every Trip, Now Going Broke
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 [...]
Allen Iverson Getting His Wages Garnished to Pay Back His Jeweler
Allen Iverson just received some bad news from a Georgia judge. The judge told the ex-baller that he is going to have his paychecks garnished to repay his jeweler. According to court records, Iverson owes Aydin&Company jewelers the handsome sum of $375,000. He never responded to the company’s lawsuit, and the bill has ballooned to [...]
NFL Player Admits I AM THE DADDY But Refuses To Take Care Of Child Financiallly
He’s admitted to fathering her child, but American Football star Roddy White refuses to give mother Stacey Hott any financial assistance. The Atlanta Falcons wide receiver was handed a paternity suit early last December, when Hott claimed he had fathered her five-month-old boy. The 30-year-old has since admitted that he IS the father [...]
Black ‘Baby Alive’ Doesn’t Have Same Rights and Privileges As White ‘Baby Alive’ [VIDEO]
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When a Georgia mother tried to buy a doll for her daughter for Christmas, she never imagined that the doll might be more expensive if it was black, instead of white. The Baby Alive doll is one of the top items on 7-year-old Ahzhane Taylor’s wish list this year. Sunday, Ahzhane’s mother, Niaira Taylor, went [...]
Attorney: Hazed FAMU Student Could Barely Walk
The freshman Florida A&M band member who was beaten so badly she could barely walk was picked on in part because she was deemed the “Ace,” or the leader of the pledges for a secret group of Georgia natives known as “Red Dawg Order,” authorities said. She was on a full scholarship and [...]
Soul Singer Howard Tate Dies at 72
Howard Tate – a gifted 1960s soul singer who left the music business after his now-beloved records were ignored, only to reemerge decades later to a cult following – died earlier this month of multiple myeloma and leukemia, reports Billboard. He was 72. Few details have been released, but Rolling Stone is reporting [...]
Police Investigate ANOTHER Hazing Incident Involving FAMU’s Marching 100
Authorities are investigating another possible case of hazing connected to Florida A&M University band. The Tallahassee Police Department has opened an investigation into the alleged battery of 18-year-old Bria Shante Hunter. The freshman clarinet player suffered a fractured thigh bone and damaged knee. Probe: Police are investigating the alleged battery of 18-year-old Bria [...]
Fugitive Child Molester Rescues Suicidal Teen From Drowning Herself
A jogger who saved a suicidal teenager from drowning herself in a Connecticut lake was a convicted child molester on the lam from Georgia for six years. Michael Rogers, 49, said shortly after the rescue that he could not bear to walk away and have the girl’s death on his conscience, and Hamden [...]
Clarence Thomas Dedicates New Museum Hometown
A new history museum is open in the tiny community where Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas grew up in coastal Georgia. Thomas spoke Saturday at the dedication of the museum and historical marker in Pin Point, a community just outside Savannah. Thomas told a crowd including his wife, mother and sister that he’d [...]
One Cain Accuser Works in the Obama Administration
the Daily named one of the women who filed a s****l harassment claim against Republican front-runner Herman Cain while he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association. The woman, identified by the paper as Karen Kraushaar, now works as communications director at the Treasury Department’s Office of the Inspector General. Cain has sought to downplay the [...]
Soulja Boy Locked Up Behind Bars
Soulja Boy was arrested early this morning for weed possession … and law enforcement sources tell TMZ cops allegedly found a ton of weed and cash during the arrest. The 21-year-old rapper — real name DeAndre Cortez Way – was popped early this morning by Temple Police Department officers in Temple, GA at 3:15 AM. Read More.