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by Maria Lloyd America is most known and respected for its First Amendment, the freedom of speech. Where some countries severely punish their citizens for voicing opinions, America applauds and invites its citizens to voice an opinion. There’s one crucial problem with the amendment: Everybody has an opinion. When you have over 300,000,000 people in one country, there is a ...

Yesterday the 11-year-old son of Usher Raymond’s ex-wife, Tameka Foster, and television executive, Ryan Glover, was laid to rest. Sources are saying they did not see pop-star Usher Raymond in attendance. The child, Kile Glover, was involved in a tragic jet ski incident earlier this month that left him brain dead. Foster took to her Twitter page to thank fans ...

Brilliant, capable and courageous are words that easily come to mind when referencing John B. Taylor, the first African American to ever win a gold medal in the Olympics. As the son of freed slaves, Taylor didn’t let anything hold him back. He wasn’t just a man who could run like the wind, he was an intellectual and a hard ...

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World A couple in Jackson, Mississippi said they were highly disappointed to have their wedding banned by a white church.  The mayor of the city has even stepped in to speak on the serious injustice that has been served to the couple as a result of what some have called obvious racism. Charles Wilson, ...

America’s Next Top Model fans were understandably puzzled when the show’s creator, Tyra Banks got rid of the long-time judges and co-hosts, Nigel Barker, Miss J. Alexander, and Jay Manuel.  Tyra is seeking new ways to get the show’s ratings back up, after viewers have started to get bored with the same old format. The three men seemed to have ...

A “late breaker” finding presented Thursday at the 19th Annual International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC is a shocker, and a very encouraging moment for both victims and combatants of the virus: two more men who contracted both HIV and cancer have been apparently cured of the virus, in cases that seem to confirm that “Berlin patient” Timothy Brown was ...

Voicemail messages allegedly left by Jerry Sandusky on the phone of one of his alleged child sex victims have just been uncovered. The alleged victim’s lawyers released the voicemails yesterday and announced plans to sue Penn State University for failing to cease Sandusky’s abuse. The alleged unidentified victim claims to have suffered “extensive sexual abuse over many years both before ...

There are some cities where the budget crisis is so bad that embarrassing things happen in public.  Detroit is the most recent example, where it was determined that it now takes four hours for police to come to your house during a standard call.  Oakland has recently tried to trump Detroit with the most embarrassing police incident of the year. ...

For some inmates, the day they get out of prison is the best day of their life.  For others, the day can be sad and depressing, especially if they have no resources and nothing to come home to.  We don’t know what happened to Rodney Dwayne Valentine, but we do know that he was only out for a few minutes before ...

Gary Younge James Holmes’s rampage was horrifying, but it was not unfathomable.