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*An aspiring New York firefighter is resigning from the city’s fire department, where he was working as an EMT, because of his racially inflammatory tweets, reports The Root. The tweeter, by the way, just so happens to be the son of the city’s fire commissioner, Salvatore Cassano. Joe Cassano’s targets included Jews, blacks and “Obama [...]
*The Pew Research Center just released a report that breaks down the use of social media among race, gender and geographic location. While 67 percent of the online population overall uses Facebook, the demographic portrait of the smaller services varies greatly, according to the survey that shows its first comparisons of usage by whites, blacks [...]
*As we reported, some attendees at the Republican National Convention found it hard to contain their true feelings and pelted an African American camerawoman from CNN with peanuts while snickering, “This is how we feed the animals.” “I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all,” CNN camerawoman, Patricia Carroll, told Journal-isms. “This [...]
*(Via Health 24) – Black people who survive brain bleed strokes are more likely than their white peers to have high blood pressure a year later, new research reveals. Intracranial haemorrhages represent about 10% of all strokes, but about four in 10 of these strokes lead to death in the first month. The study authors pointed [...]
*(Via NY Times) – For months now, New York officials have been highlighting how the city has regained all the jobs lost during the long recession and then some. But by several measures, the city’s recovery has left black New Yorkers behind. More than half of all of African-Americans and other non-Hispanic blacks in the [...]
*The census has been an issue with America’s citizens for some time. There are those who duck the census because they believe that they will be reported to government agencies and find out information that they don’t want the government to know. But, even with those who give information willingly, the census has its own [...]
*A new survey written from the perspective of waitstaff throughout the U.S. is complete. Now don’t get nervous if you were out last night at the local Applebee’s behaving badly and leaving a disgraceful tip … own it! You and the 10 other black people that have been out there misrepresenting African Americans have built [...]
*A coalition of Blacks in radio broadcasting, media and business met Monday with KFI 640 AM’s station management and show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the “John and Ken Show” to discuss their calling of music icon Whitney Houston a “crack ho” three days following the legendary singer’s death. Among those who met with the station’s General Manager Greg Ashlock and program [...]
*(Via LA Times) – From a distance, it seemed like common sense: an ordinance meant to keep children away from an open-air night-life zone with more than 350 places to buy booze, an abundance of strip joints and a 300-year-old reputation for iniquity. But last week, as the New Orleans City Council approved a strict [...]
By Jasmyne A. Cannick When the first African slaves stepped off the ship they were given two things—Christianity in the form of The Holy Bible and a new language… English. Two hundred years later, the descendants of those slaves are now being punished for Mistah’s English Only law. Unemployed African-Americans have more than just “ethnic” [...]
*New Haven, Conn. – Young people are being exposed to a massive amount of marketing for sugary drinks, such as full-calorie soda, sports drinks, energy drinks, and fruit drinks, according to a new study from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The study is the most comprehensive and science-based assessment of sugary [...]
By Jasmyne A. Cannick Now I’m not trying to hate on Occupy LA, but after looking at news photos of the recent goings on, I couldn’t help but think of the National Organization for Women—and we all know that NOW was never about the liberation and equal rights of Black women. All that’s to say, [...]
*During an interview that aired on CNN’s “The Situation Room” Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told host Wolf Blitzer that members of the African American community “have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.” The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza went on to say: “I have received some [...]
*Are you suffering from malnutrition? Are you receiving any public assistance or do not have access to emergency funds if you need them? Do you experience debilitating depression, so much so, that it has rendered you incapable of holding down a job or looking for one? What about XBox? Do you own one of those [...]
*L.A.’s Congresswoman Maxine Waters has started a firestorm after her comments yesterday at Wayne State Community College in Detroit regarding President Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, and Blacks. When asked why the Black members of Congress don’t pressure the president she replied, “We don’t put pressure on the president because ya’ll love the president. You [...]
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