Various reports, from sources CNN and E! News, have been released and have confirmed the incident. Early Sunday morning, around 12:30 a.m., singer Chris Brown and a then unidentified woman got into an argument that turned physical near Hancock Park in Hollywood. The confrontation escalated and the couple got into […]
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American culture killed joy of reading
Over the years many pastimes have died like hopscotch, baseball, and recreational baking. All of these are fading away, while video games, television and other electronic devices turn perfectly good brains into goop. American citizens are in a era where text messages are the most exciting things they read in […]
The harm in coddling athletes
Preston Parker, Florida State University’s football team’s offensive most valuable player in 2007, has excelled on the field, but continues to garner negative press through his illegal activities. Coach Bobby Bowden announced Parker‘s dismissal from the team “due to his latest violation of team policy,” last Monday. According to the […]
A-Rod finally tells truth
Alex Rodriguez has recently joined a group of select elite athletes. The clique’s members include Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Jose Canseco. Alex Rodriguez has held slugging, home run and stolen base records, but these are not what gained his admittance into the group. His admittance to the use of […]
What’s the Business?
Black businesses thrived in this country when they understood the urgency of moments in time like Reconstruction, the Great Depression and Jim Crow. Business owners knew if they did not support one another they could not survive. These days it is difficult to keep a Black business open. According to […]
What grinds Wesley’s gears?
I live for the weekend. Truth be told, I hate to work. I even despise writing sometimes. But, I do it because I live by Mike Jones’ philosophy: If you don’t work, you don’t eat. If you don’t grind, you don’t shine. That being said, I do what I have […]
Trainers help to pinch one less inch
Two former NFL players and old college football teammates, reunited to take a stand against obesity in America. Starting with the Tallahassee community, Kevin Franklin, 34, former player for the Oakland Raiders and Detroit Lions, and Gabe Northern, 34, former Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings player, opened their own fitness […]
Family develops Ebony Experiment
Consumers are scratching to survive the economic crisis and small businesses being hit as worse as corporations. Yet, in this treacherous economic climate, John C. Anderson and his wife, Maggie Anderson have vied to “buy black” to show support for black businesses the entire year. Mr. Anderson, a Harvard graduate […]
Harmonious Obsession
Willingly entangled by masterful melody, I am chained at both wrists and ankles. Its sound belly flops on my eardrum, echoing needed sign of serenity in this chaos I survive in. My being caves in without you; knowing that has me at your every command. I deny my dependency, this […]
Sari cloth helps fight cholera
A nationally recognized health professional paid Florida A&M University’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals a visit to discuss a disease that claimed thousands of lives in third world countries. Rita R. Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and current professor at the University of Maryland at College […]