African American Nurse Banned From Handling White Newborn Baby
A Michigan nurse claims she was banned from caring for a newborn child because of her skin color. Tonya Battle is suing her employers at Hurley Medical Center, in Flint, after they ordered her not to look after the baby in the neonatal intensive care unit following a request from its father, WNEM reports. The [...]
Shawty Lo’s ‘All My Babies Mamas’ Could Get a New Network
Shawty Lo is determined to redefine the black family in our country. He doesn’t want you getting married and having kids like some kind of lame. Instead, he wants you to have more babies mamas than you can count and so many kids that you don’t even remember their names. The kids might hate you [...]
Oprah’s Trust To Evict Her Step-Sister From Home
The ongoing drama that is the divorce case of Oprah Winfrey’s father and step-mother now has a new twist. The talk show queen’s parents, Vernon Winfrey and Barbara Winfrey, still have a legal battle going on but now it is being reported that Davidson County Sheriff’s deputies will be evicting Oprah’s step-sister, Ashley Williams, along [...]
Go Head Girl! Mom Spends 10 Years in Prison, then Builds Multi-Million Dollar Empire
Wahida Clark made her money and found her success the hard way. As a wife and mother, she ended up going to prison for money laundering and mail fraud. RollingOut.com tells the story of how Wahida had to leave her daughters for 91/2 years to go to federal prison, along with her husband. Relatives [...]
7-year-old boy desperately in need of a new heart
Little Carl Washington IV desperately wants to return to school, play sports and be a good big brother to his three siblings — but first he needs a new heart. The 7-year-old Bronx boy has bounced in and out of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian in Washington Heights since December. [...]
Whitney Houston’s Adoptive Son Keeps Family Business In The Family
Whitney Houston‘s mother, Cissy, reportedly wants the late singer’s “secret” son, Nick Gordon, to move out their Atlanta home, but Gordon refuses to reveal the details of his relationship with the Houstons. Soon after Whitney Houston’s death on Feb. 11, TMZ broke the news that Houston took Gordon, 22, in more than 10 years [...]
13-Yr Old Allegedly Persecuted by Teachers for “Radical” Essay on Frederick Douglass
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the [...]
Drake Denies Making ‘Marvin’s Room’ Lawsuit Threats Against Alleged Ex-Girlfriend
Ericka Lee filed a lawsuit against the rapper earlier this week, claiming that he used her voice on the Take Care track without her consent. She also alleges that she co-wrote the song but did not receive any credit. Accordinf to TMZ, the lawsuit claims that Drake told Ericka he knew “people” that could [...]
Wendy Williams Goes In On Fantasia and Her Married “Baby Daddy”
Black Like Moi reports: Well tell us how you really feel, Wendy Williams. Fantasia is usually one of the talk show diva’s favorite celebrity darlings, even getting an exclusive with her during the entire Mahalia biopic brou-haha. If there relationship maintains any level of civility after Wendy ripped into the singer with the truth, then [...]
Young Teens Starring In Controversial New Film; Anti-violence Advocates Threaten Boycott
The streets of Harlem are being run by baby-faced gun-toting kids who aren’t afraid to pull the trigger and leave a b****y trail of bodies in a new independent film that’s quickly making the rounds uptown. There’s wild shoot outs, drugs and s*x in “Toddlers” – shot in Harlem using neighborhood kids as [...]
African-American Waitress Say She Was Only Allowed To Serve Black Tables at Applebee’s
TOWSON, Md. – An African-American waitress, who was terminated earlier this year, has filed a discrimination complaint against Applebee’s after she claims a manager harassed her on the job and only allowed her to only serve tables taken by black customers. 23 year-old Courtney Haywood started working at the Towson Applebee’s in 2007 [...]