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NEW YORK (CNN) – Macy’s plans to fill 78,000 temporary positions – an early Christmas gift for job seekers. The retailer says it needs the new employees to staff Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores, call centers, distribution centers and warehouses for the holiday season. In total, the company is planning to hire 4 percent more workers […]

The Reverend Al Sharpton said President Obama was right in telling Black people to “stop complaining” at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix awards on Saturday. Sharpton, who spoke to the president shortly after the speech remarked, “He said this is what I’ve done, and it helps Blacks and helps the county and now let’s get to work,” […]

Now you would think by the time you are 96 you’re done with all of your foolishness, well I guess one woman didn’t get the memo. Amanda Rice Stevenson is the oldest person to ever be charged with murder in the state of Florida. Her nephew 53-year-old Johnny Rice was found dead on the floor […]

This story just makes my skin boil. So a black woman says she was hired at a restaurant /bar outside of Atlanta called “The Tilted Kilt”. She says she was fired because she was too dark. WTF! A black woman claims she was hired by a Roswell restaurant and bar, but then fired before she started […]

Watch the LIVE courtroom feed for the Dr. Conrad Murray Michael Jackson Trial. Video will be live soon with opening statements.

President Obama critic Tavis Smiley went ballistic this past weekend on his TV show after Obama told African Americans to “stop complaining.” Obama, at the Phoenix Awards Dinner at the CBC Forum, said that African Americans need to get up and fight. “I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take […]

Usher and David Guetta brought their new international dance anthem “Without You” to the iHeartRadio Festival stage in Las Vegas last night.

The King of Pop’s 14-year-old son Prince makes his red carpet debut–in suite exactly like his famous father!

On the season opener of ‘Extreme Makeover’ Home Edition, they had two very special guests. Michelle Obama and Rihanna.

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has given one of his typically candid interviews to Newsweek. The interview was published Monday. For a man who first made his name as a media guru for Richard Nixon, Ailes is often surprisingly forthcoming about Fox News and his opinions. In previous interviews, he has called NPR executives “Nazis” […]

President Barack Obama touted his jobs bill and took questions on the economy in Silicon Valley Monday at a town hall run by LinkedIn, the professional networking website that some job-seekers flock to. It was the president’s latest outreach to voters via a major social networking company. In April, Obama held a town hall targeted […]

Republican activists want a candidate who is not just conservative on nearly every issue, but has been so his or her entire career. A good enough politician to debate and then defeat President Obama. Charismatic too. They’re still looking. The overwhelming victory by businessman and longshot candidate Herman Cain in a straw poll here Saturday […]