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Yesterday, Tiger Woods backed out of the The Players Championship citing a bad neck injury. According to Golf.com/AP: Tiger fears his injury might be a bulging disk in his upper back.“I’ve been playing with a bad neck for about a month,” Woods said. After hitting his drive well to the right on the seventh hole, […]
Via CNN: Severe storms and massive flooding last weekend killed 23 people in Tennessee, state emergency management officials said. The federal government has declared 42 counties disaster areas. Flooding has caused more than $1.5 billion in property damage in the Nashville area alone, city officials said. Piles of debris stretched for blocks in the city’s […]
From NYPost.com: His bad-boy ways got disgraced Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress sent to prison for gun possession, and now the jailed Super Bowl hero is trying to do some good. An anger-management program that Burress got officials to initiate at the upstate Oneida Correctional Facility is being widely received by fellow inmates. Click here […]
From NYDailyNews.com: Black politicians and church leaders blasted cops Sunday for storming a Crown Heights church during services to pursue a suspect in a traffic incident. Police chased Kendall Jones, 18, into the Shiloh Seventh-Day Adventist Church Friday night after he dumped a stolen car and fled. “The police violated the sanctity of this house […]
From ChicagoBreakingNews.com: About 700 students gathered in front of Chicago Public Schools headquarters this morning to protest drastic budget cuts which they say they are already starting to feel. “It started with JV sports, then they started cutting teachers – What’s next?” asked Somyiah Nance, a 15-year-old freshman at Whitney Young High School. The students […]
// Business owners are an integral part of the Black community. They help uplift our people economically, and serve as role models so that future generations know they can achieve real success as entrepreneurs. Are you a Black business owner making an impact in your community? Know someone who is? Tell them about this great […]
Via BlackChristianNews.com: Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of Detroit, has a message for the city he used to lead: Let’s move on. “The city has not been allowed to move forward, and the city has not been allowed to heal,” Kilpatrick said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with The Dallas Morning News. “And I think […]
// From The New York Daily News Former Giants great Lawrence Taylor was arrested Thursday in Rockland County in connection with the reported rape of a 15-year-old girl, sources said. Taylor allegedly beat and sexually assaulted the girl and has been charged with third-degree rape, the Journal News was reporting. He will be arraigned Thursday […]
VIA AOL BLACKVOICES: Phillip Sciarello, a publisher and part owner of the Smithtown Messenger in Long Island, is defending his newspaper after a picture appeared that some believe to be a racist stereotype of the First Family. The picture depicts President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as characters from “Sanford and Son.” The public backlash […]
// From the NY Times: WASHINGTON — American officials said Wednesday that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American […]
