CALIFORNIA--San Jose firefighters treated 21 people for burns when they walked across hot coals at an event by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
The incident occurred Thursday, with some of those suffering second- and third-degree burns. None of ...
Posted Saturday, July 21st 2012 at 7:23PM
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From Weather.com
July 19, 2012
Record setting temperatures and little rain have put much of the Corn Belt under a severe drought. The extent of drought nationwide is at its highest levels in this century, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor re ...
Posted Saturday, July 21st 2012 at 5:07PM
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DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) - A masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman film in a suburb of the city of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a teargas cannister into the auditorium and opened fire ...
Posted Friday, July 20th 2012 at 10:46AM
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LOS ANGELES--A terminated African American employee of the University of Phoenix sues the university alleging race and disability discrimination.
The employee worked in the Information Technology Department in Gardena, California. He applied for n ...
Posted Thursday, July 19th 2012 at 1:03PM
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ABC News--George Zimmerman, accused of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, told a television interviewer Wednesday that he would not have changed the circumstances leading up to the shooting and that he viewed th ...
Posted Thursday, July 19th 2012 at 12:52PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
July 16, 2012
JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank by assets, announced Friday that the trading loss from derivatives bets made by its Chief Investment Office (CIO) had reached $5.8 billion, nearly three times the amount th ...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th 2012 at 12:14PM
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From The Louisiana Weekly
July 15, 2012
Jimmy Stewart has the nation’s only Black-owned telephone company. Now he wants to help small Black businesses do the same. He is traveling the country to explain this and other technological issues that Bl ...
Posted Monday, July 16th 2012 at 12:23PM
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The weeklong trial on a new voter ID law in the state of Texas concluded with members of a three-judge federal court panel indicating they would uphold the federal Department of Justice and block the implementation of the law on the ...
Posted Monday, July 16th 2012 at 12:14PM
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Peace To All:
GRANNY SMITH APPLE, RED DELICIOUS APPLE, OR GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLE?
There are three stages of knowledge. When digesting this food for thought, keep in mind there are many kinds of apples, (granny smith red delicious, and golden de ...
Posted Sunday, July 15th 2012 at 4:33PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan announced that he would lead the members of the Fruit of Islam, the men of the Nation of Islam, into the streets to stem the bloody tide of violence that has gripped Chicago and many ci ...
Posted Saturday, July 14th 2012 at 7:40PM
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CHILDERSBURG, ALABAMA - A family is upset after they say a racist sign was put in their front yard to scare their biracial children. Denise Schenck found the sign Saturday morning outside her home on Thomas Lane in Childersburg.
"Oh I was devastat ...
Posted Friday, July 13th 2012 at 12:24PM
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By Ernest Crim III
July 9, 2012
I remember when I first learned about the KKK as a child. They were portrayed to me as a villainous White posse that went around killing Blacks after slavery to “put them in their place.” I had so much disdain for ...
Posted Wednesday, July 11th 2012 at 12:35PM
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The following article contains edited excerpts from an address the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered to a special gathering of pastors and religious leaders at The Salaam Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
THE ...
Posted Sunday, July 8th 2012 at 4:20PM
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PCWorld.com--Virgin Mobile consumers can now purchase iPhones on the carrier’s prepaid wireless plans. Consumers will have to pay full price for the phones -- $649 for a 16GB iPhone 4S and $549 for an 8GB iPhone 4 -- but pay less for service than the ...
Posted Sunday, July 8th 2012 at 4:15PM
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WASHINGTON– Last Friday in a special session, Congress passed a bipartisan bill requiring Americans to add Israel’s Star of David to the U.S. flag.
Sen. Dale Wentworth (D-NJ) told reporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial:
“The great nat ...
Posted Saturday, July 7th 2012 at 6:14PM
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