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Bodies Found in Mississippi Believed to Be Missing Family
Police found what they believe are the bodies of an African-American family that went missing on Friday, NBC10 reports. The three bodies, belonging to a man, a woman and a young male child, were discovered in an abandoned house on Tuesday close to the area southwest of Jackson, Miss., where investigators found the family’s burned…
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Black, Brown Voters Factor Heavily in Major Political Races
(The Root)—Those who were expected to win did just that, as Kerry Washington, Barack Obama, Harry Belafonte and Shaquille O’Neal all used their star status to campaign for winners. In the end, Election Day 2013 proved to be chock-full of expected results. In New Jersey, incumbent Gov. Chris Christie crushed Democratic challenger state Sen. Barbara…
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Election Day 2013
It is Election Day 2013. Here’s a roundup of all the big races being decided today. In Virginia and New Jersey, residents are voting for their next governor, while in New York City, Boston and Detroit, the mayoral race is being decided. It’s hard to say the New Jersey gubernatorial race is a even a…
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Roland Martin Hosts New TV News Show
Houston journalist Roland Martin debuted his new TV news show Monday, set to focus on the important news of the day from an African-American perspective, the Houston Chronicle reports. The platform, which has been a lifelong dream of Martin’s, is a one-hour program that will run alongside the final hour of his three-hour morning radio…
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A Klansman for Halloween
While other 7-year-old boys were dressing up as superheroes or their favorite video game character for Halloween, Jackson Black went trick-or-treating as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, dressed full on in a white robe and a pointed white hood, with a red-and-white cross emblazoned on his chest. “It was cool,” the little boy…
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Not Smart Enough to Commit Premeditated Murder?
There is no doubt as to whether Arthur James Martin shot Javon Abdulla Daniels to death while he was sitting in a car outside an apartment in Jacksonville, Florida in late 2009, according to court documents the Florida Times-Union reports. While the shooting isn’t disputed, whether or not Martin’s intelligence is too low to be…
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University of Michigan Fraternity Throws 'Ratchet' Party
Everyone take note: Throwing parties that play up offensive stereotypes is never going to work. Members of a University of Michigan fraternity are learning this lesson as they face backlash for planning a “World Star Hip Hop Presents: Hood Ratchet Thursday” bash. Theta Xi Fraternity advertised the party on Facebook with a picture of a…
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Racist Whites More Likely to Own Guns
The more racist a white person is, the more likely he or she is to own a gun, a new international study released on Thursday has found. The report, done by researchers at Australia’s Monash University and Britain’s Manchester University, was conducted to better understand gun culture in the United States, the Daily News reports.…
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Sanford Bans Neighborhood-Watch Guns
The city of Sanford, Fla., is now prohibiting its civilian neighborhood-watch team from carrying firearms on patrol, following the 2012 incident in which then-neighborhood-watch leader George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, Yahoo! News reports. This change of rules is aimed at preventing another such incident — which shook the state…
