Category: National News

The cover of this month’s Vanity Fair boasts a portrait of what the magazine calls up-and-coming actresses—but missing from the cover are any women of color. Actresses Carey Mulligan, Kristen Stewart, Abbie Cornish, Mia Wasikowska, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood and Anna Kendrick—all White—appear on the cover of the magazine. The […]

The doctor who medicated singer Michael Jackson in his last hours is expected to be charged on February 8 with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer’s death. Murray is accused of administering a lethal combination of medication which ultimately caused the pop singer to go into cardiac arrest. According to an Associated Press report, Murray […]

Surfing the Web could be hazardous to your mental health, according to a new study. The study, conducted by British scientists, indicated that the longer people spent online, the less likely they were to be happy. However, the study did not indicate whether using the Internet causes mental health problems, or if individuals already diagnosed […]

President Obama intends to overhaul the No Child Left Behind education law, changing the school accountability system that has placed a failing label on over a third of schools, the Associated Press reported. No Child Left Behind pushes schools to improve test scores each year with the goal of making all U.S. children able to […]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on February 4 filed charges of fraud against corporate giant Bank of America, as well as Kenneth Lewis and Joseph Price, the bank’s former chief executive and financial officer, respectively. According to The Washington Post, Cuomo alleges that the two former Bank of America executives lied to investors and […]

From the days of the late actress Hattie McDaniel and entrepreneur Eunice Johnson in the early 20th century, Black women have always forged paths of leadership, fighting for success while giving tirelessly of themselves. “I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process,” Oprah Winfrey has said. “And […]

United States residents who donated to the relief effort in Haiti will be rewarded this spring when they file their income taxes. A measure recently approved by Congress and signed by President Obama will allow them to write off those charitable donations on their 2009 taxes. Under current law, those donations would have had to […]

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer (R) has set off a round of controversy with his comparison of providing government assistances to individuals in Greenville, S.C., to “feeding stray animals.” According to Columbia, S.C. newspaper The State, Bauer’s remarks came during a Jan. 22 town hall meeting which included both lawmakers and residents. “My grandmother […]

Caressa Cameron, 22, a broadcast journalism student enrolled at Virginia Commonwealth University, beat out 53 contestants in the annual Miss America pageant held at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 30. She is the first Black Miss America since Ericka Dunlap won the title in 2005. “I hope to gain inspiration, I hope […]

Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee Archer, a former Tuskegee Airman during World War II, died January 27 at Cornell University Medical Center in New York City. He was 90. Archer was born on September 6, 1919 in Yonkers, N.Y. and raised in Harlem. He attended New York University before dropping out and enlisting in […]

Dillon County, S.C. has some of the worst public education facilities in the nation, facilities so bad that they caught the eye of then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Now, President Obama has decided to do something about the horrid state of the buildings, some of which are nearly 115 years old. The county’s schools will […]

Several pending lawsuits allege northern California police have not taken seriously attacks on Black teens by Latino gang members. The racially-motivated violence resulted in the death of 14-year-old Vernon Eddins, who was shot in front of his Union City, Calif. middle school in December 2007. Eddins’ death is one incident lawyers cite in three pending […]