Category: Afro Briefs

Golf star Tiger Woods finished poorly in second-round play at the Firestone Country Club on August 6, scoring over-par in back-to-back rounds for the first time. But the WGC Bridgestone Invitational isn’t the only thing he’s now expected to lose. According to several reports, Woods is giving up his home in Orlando as part of […]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been granted authority to challenge the Obama’s Administration’s claim that without due process it is within the military’s rights to kill or capture Americans who join al Qaeda. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on August 5 joined the ACLU in the legal battle revolving around suspected terrorist […]

In a recent interview with Vibe magazine, music producer and rapper Diddy called “Nightline” host Martin Bashir a racist for questioning his decision to purchase his son a Maybach car. “There were times in the interview when I had to give him an ultimatum,” Diddy told Vibe. “The questions weren’t being handled the right way. […]

Command Sgt. Maj. (ret.) Michele S. Jones attended the National Urban League’s Women of Power Luncheon on behalf of the U.S. Army. Jones, the first female in the Army appointed as the Army Reserve Command sergeant major, currently serves as special assistant to the secretary of defense’s White House liaison. The Army, the nation’s largest […]

Shirley Sherrod, the recently fired director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development office in Georgia, has said she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart, who used an excerpt of a speech she made to the NAACP out of context and called it racist along with cable news network Fox News. In a video posted […]

Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, an international non-profit women’s organization, returned to New Orleans for the third time to celebrate their 50th national convention. The gathering, “A Sisterhood Called to Serve: Transforming Lives and Impacting Communities,” not only allowed up to 16,000 sorority members to reunite in the Crescent City, but provided them an […]

Chicago police have identified a suspect in the multiple shooting death of eighth-grader Robert Freeman Jr., 13, The Associated Press reported. Freeman was shot 13 times on July 29 while riding his bicycle on the city’s South Side, and according to his family, the teen was the victim of mistaken identity. According to the report, […]

ESSENCE, a celebrated lifestyle magazine targeting Black women, is at the center of a controversy converging matters of race, equality and fashion. For the first time in its 40-year history, ESSENCE has hired a White fashion director, Elliana Placas. “ESSENCE was the first magazine that says in their brand that it is for Black women […]

Kristin Davis made headlines as the infamous “Manhattan Madam,” the woman who supplied pricey call girls for ousted New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Now, Davis, 35, recently announced her plans to run for governor as the candidate of the Anti-Prohibition Party (APP). Davis spent four months in prison after being convicted of promoting prostitution, but […]

ESSENCE.com reports that new research has emerged suggesting minority women are at a greater mortality risk from skin cancer than non-minority groups. The study conducted collectively by doctors from the University of Nevada, University of Miami, Florida Cancer Data System, and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center concluded that Black women in Florida had a significant […]

On July 28, the House of Representatives passed the Fair Sentencing Act (S.1789) to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing. The legislation, which matches a measure passed in March by the Senate, is aimed at reducing the current sentencing disparity of those convicted of possession of crack cocaine versus powder cocaine and eliminating mandatory minimum […]

A tongue-in-cheek rap video made in support of controversial South Carolina Senate Democratic candidate Alvin Greene made its way to the airwaves recently and it didn’t fool many people who watched. However, for the New York Times and political reporter Katharine Q. Seelye, that wasn’t quite the case. On June 22, Seelye posted the video […]