Though the city experienced a 17 percent drop in the number of violent crimes last year, New Orleans remains the nation's most murderous city by a wide margin, according to the FBI's annual report on national crime released Monday.
Violent crime d ...
Posted Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 1:01PM
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The following article appeared in The Louisiana Weekly, a Black newspaper. Sisters please make copies of this article and pass it on. Also, I ask the brothers to make copies of this too, because they need to tell the women they care about as well!
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Posted Monday, June 1st 2009 at 2:00PM
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This is a reply to an article emailed to me on our sister site, BlackWomenConnect.com, while I would not waste my time posting the full article (which is about 10 pages long), however, I have chosen to post my reply in a blog because of the subject m ...
Posted Monday, June 1st 2009 at 1:21PM
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I’m mad that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are able to continue to make former NFL star Michael Vick bow and kiss the ring like he's bowing to the pope. Not only were these clowns the main force behind Vick’s imprisonment for dog-fi ...
Posted Saturday, May 30th 2009 at 3:30PM
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As if Octomom wasn't bad enough, a Tennessee man, 29 year old Desmond Hatchett has now fathered at least 21 children he can't support. Hatchett was in child support court again last week. His name appeared on the dockett 11 times in one day, represe ...
Posted Friday, May 29th 2009 at 1:37PM
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Every year, it seems as if a crazy white person commits a crazy crime and blames it on a Black person. That said, here are the top 5 “The Black Guy Did It” excuses by white criminals:
1. Ashley Todd, Pennsylvania, 2008
This crazy, overweight, ...
Posted Friday, May 29th 2009 at 1:28PM
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I am currently in the process of helping a childhood friend win over a lady. His friend told him that "If you wants advice on how to talk to a woman, ask one". Being a single woman, I cannot be of much help (LOL). Yet there are some words women long ...
Posted Wednesday, May 27th 2009 at 1:50PM
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., who chairs the U.S. House subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, has scheduled a special hearing Friday in an attempt to intervene in the cases of as many as 18,0000 famil ...
Posted Tuesday, May 26th 2009 at 2:52PM
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You have to be rich to be poor.
That’s what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don’t understand.
Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact ...
Posted Tuesday, May 26th 2009 at 2:24PM
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I have had this photo saved on my Myspace email for months and now I pass it on.
Next to James Brown's (R.I.P) mug shot, this photo still has the ability to make me laugh every time I see it. This brother looks like an Old Edition and a New Edition. ...
Posted Tuesday, May 26th 2009 at 9:01AM
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C-ME-B-4-U-C-HER
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Sister my Sister, can I speak
with you for a minute?
No, I don't want to hear
your business, cause I ain't
trying to be in it.
I'd just like to talk
with you if I could
and share my views ...
Posted Monday, May 25th 2009 at 2:21PM
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From TalkingTheTruth.com
May 24, 2009
Like many of us the nation's elite colleges and universities have taken a financial beating over the past year.
Among them Harvard Yale Princeton and Stanford all watched their endowments shrink by about 20 ...
Posted Monday, May 25th 2009 at 2:12PM
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I'M JUST GLAD I WASN'T EATING PORK BEFORE READING THIS (LOL)...
A New Orleans woman accused of stabbing her 15-year-old brother and 12-year-old son following an argument over pork chops is being held at the Orleans Correctional Center. Bond is in ...
Posted Sunday, May 24th 2009 at 2:55PM
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Enjoy!!!
President and Mrs. Obama Open White House Poetry Jam:
Mayda del Valle at the White House Poetry Jam
ELEW Performs at the White House Poetry Jam
James Earl Jones "Othello" at the White House
Micheal Chabon & Ayel ...
Posted Sunday, May 24th 2009 at 1:15PM
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Seemingly innocent medication such as Visine eyedrops are used by people to concoct a mixture with similar effects as a date-rape drug.
When mixed with alcohol and taken orally, the eyedrops can lead to drowsiness and can cause someone to pass ou ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 9:51AM
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It seems that Susan Boyle’s makeover has begun. The most famous woman in the world has trimmed her brows from a stormy hedge that would frighten small children into screaming, dropping their ice cream cones, and running away to a more delicate line t ...
Posted Friday, May 22nd 2009 at 5:45PM
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Two text messages and an interview with a student obtained by The Crimson today suggest that Justin Cosby, the 21-year old Cambridge man shot in a Kirkland entryway on Monday, may have been involved in drug sales to Harvard students—a development tha ...
Posted Friday, May 22nd 2009 at 10:10AM
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The small, unassuming town of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, has suffered 50 fires in 15 months, making it the site of the country's worst arson epidemic in decades, and providing a frightening case study in how the crime of fire-setting can turn self-pe ...
Posted Friday, May 22nd 2009 at 10:02AM
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Okay, gang, I'm back to my side hustle: POLICE BRUTALITY WATCH.
After being accused of beating a 14-year-old, Toledo police say they are reviewing a video taken of the incident. Video posted on YouTube shows part of what happened next.
The vide ...
Posted Wednesday, May 20th 2009 at 8:33AM
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