Oprah Winfrey on OWN Mistakes and Never Quitting
If she had to do it all over again, television icon Oprah Winfrey said she might not have created OWN, her television network. “The idea of creating a network was something that I wanted to do. Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have done something else,” Winfrey said Monday on “CBS This Morning.” Winfrey added, More...
Black Farmers File Claims in USDA Settlement
When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father’s Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — but was turned down. The USDA said More...
Obama: ‘If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon’
President Barack Obama said Friday that “every aspect” of the death of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot in Florida last month, must be investigated. “My main message is to the parents of More...
Whitney Houston Died From Drowning, Cocaine Use
Whitney Houston died in a Beverley Hills hotel room in early February, and more than a month after the news of her death shocked fans across the world, an official coroner’s report has been released, pinpointing More...
African-American Vote in GOP Race Falls Below Measurable Levels
In Georgia, where African-Americans make up 31 percent of the electorate, the African-American turnout in this year’s Republican primary was—according to exit polls—barely 3 percent of the total GOP vote on More...
African-American Churches Vow to Register 1M Voters on Easter Sunday
A coalition of African-American clergy has announced a project titled the Empowerment Movement, an effort to register one million black Christian voters on Easter Sunday. The group chose Easter Sunday as its goal More...
De Niro Says Meant No Offense With First Lady Joke
Robert De Niro says he meant no offense when he joked at a presidential fundraiser featuring Michelle Obama that America might not be ready for a white first lady. “My remarks, although spoken with satirical More...
Obama Raises $45 Million In February
Picking up the pace, President Barack Obama raised $45 million for his re-election bid in February, bringing his total to about $300 million for this election cycle, his campaign said Monday. Obama stepped up fundraising More...
Report: Minority Students Punished More Harshly
African-American boys and girls have higher suspension rates than their white or Hispanic peers, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Tuesday. The More...
$336 Million Powerball Winner, 81 Year Old Louise White
Louise White, a “vivacious” 81-year-old of Newport, Rhode Island, stepped forward today as the winner of $336.4 million, the third largest Powerball lottery in the history of the game. “I want More...
