Category: Afro Briefs

Authorities have charged 16-year-old twin girls for the murder of their mother, CBSnews.com reported. Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead were arrested on May 21 following an investigation that started in January when their mother, Jarmecca Whitehead, 34, was found dead. According to authorities, the teens stabbed and beat their mother to death. She was found at […]

A gay Malawi couple was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor in prison for committing “unnatural acts and gross indecency.” Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga have been jailed since they attempted to hold an engagement ceremony in December. In his ruling, the presiding judge said he wanted to “protect” the public in the small […]

Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the couple who allegedly crashed a White House state dinner last November, are asking for an apology from the White House. “It would be nice if somebody apologized to us and for to call it quits,” Tareq told Radar Online. “I certainly wouldn’t treat anyone this way that comes to my […]

The Texas Board of Education on May 21 voted to change the state curriculum of social studies and history classes to reflect a more positive view of capitalism, the military, Christianity and modern Republican figures on American history. The reform was approved in a 9-5 vote, which split along party lines. Supporters believe the move […]

More than a century and a half after it’s founding, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. has landed on a list of the nation’s Most Endangered Historic Places for 2010, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Often referred to as the “national cathedral” of African Methodism and a bastion of human […]

Gang members killed three young adults and attempted to murder a fourth in an attempt to find out whether one gang member “had heart,” according to a New Jersey prosecutor. Jury deliberations began May 20 in the case of Rodolfo Godinez, the first of six defendants charged with killing the youths in the playground of […]

President Obama’s Kenyan aunt was granted asylum by a U.S. immigration court on May 17, according to the Associated Press. Under the asylum, she will be able to stay in the U.S., setting her on the road to citizenship. The decision arrives three months after Zeituni Onyango, a native of Kenya, testified at a hearing […]

SonVision Entertainment recently announced the launch of a new radio station, “KLSL LIQUID SOUL-Seattle, Tacoma and the World.” The Seattle-based Internet radio station plans to provide its listeners across the nation with unique music and entertainment programming. “We’re very proud to launch the new KLSL LIQUID SOUL-Seattle, Tacoma and the World,” Rick Tillman, founder and […]

Aiyana Jones, a 7-year-old Detroit girl with a head full of pigtails and bright eyes, was sleeping on the couch of a relative’s home May 15 when a flash grenade suddenly seared her skin. Seconds later, a cauldron of police officers spilled into the apartment, stunning the girl’s grandmother, Mertilla Jones, who allegedly began tussling […]

Rima Fakih, an Arab American from Dearborn, Mich., was crowned Miss USA May 16 and is believed to be the first Muslim to win the coveted title. However, pageant records are not detailed enough to confirm whether Fakih, 24, is indeed the first Muslim, Arab American or immigrant to win the title. The daughter of […]

Tyler Perry, the film director/actor popular for his Madea and Why Did I Get Married series, was a recent victim of identity theft. The playwright’s credit cards were stolen and perpetrators spent nearly $30,000. Perry posted a plea on his Web site last week, asking fans to alert police if they had any tips about […]

Led by first lady Michelle Obama, the White House Childhood Obesity Task Force on May 11 unveiled an action plan to target and solve childhood obesity in America within a generation. “For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measurable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, […]