P. Diddy has just released a new video announcing the long overdue news: he is hip hop‘s first billionaire. In a video posted to YouTube, the hip-hop mogul muses on just how far he’s come. He can be seen eating lunch before saying, “A young boy from Harlem, I couldn’t even be a waiter. They […]
The one percent stays winning.
A Delaware judge sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter. Judge Jan Jurden noted in her order that Robert H. Richards IV ”will not fare well” in prison and needed treatment instead of time behind bars. Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” panel came down hard on the judge and Richards in a segment […]
Blacks make up the majority of the nation’s population of those serving time in different prisons, whose budgets in several state have seen dramatic decreases. A lot has happened in the four years since the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, a landmark book that showed how the “war on drugs” […]
This is Ira Curry. She is a wife, a mother, a grand mother, and now she’s mega RICH!! Mrs. Curry will split the record 648 million jackpot with winners in California. She said that she used her children’s birthdays to help pick the winning numbers. Curry did not attend the Georgia Lottery press […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A flurry of ads on local radio in Cleveland promises to teach the public how to quickly flip homes for profit from experts of HGTV’s “Flip this House”, but Cleveland City Council and other community leaders caution the public if it sounds too good to be true, it is. House flipping […]
AKRON, Ohio - Following more than a year of legal maneuvering and delays, the public corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and co-defendant Michael Gabor got under way Thursday morning, with prosecutors claiming Dimora sold public contracts and jobs for money and sex. Jurors were sworn in around 8:50 a.m. after clarifications on issues of evidence were discussed by attorneys and U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi. Opening statements began around 9 a.m. with Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette Bacon telling the jury they will be hearing a case of “bribery, fraud, obstruction and conspiracy.”
The most successful blacks and Hispanics are more likely to have poor neighbors than are whites, according to a new analysis of Census data. The average affluent black and Hispanic household — defined in the study as earning more than $75,000 a year — lives in a poorer neighborhood than the average lower-income non-Hispanic white […]
It’s a brutal fact that only 25 percent of baby boomers will be able to afford retirement by age 65, and thousands of them turn 65 everyday.