Uh-oh… Morehouse College, one of the nation’s oldest historically black institutions recently enacted a controversial ban oncross-dressing. Did we forget to mention that Morehouse — which boasts prestigious alumni like civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and director Spike Lee –just happens to reside in ole Atlanta, the gayest Black male city in America?
The White Miss Hampton University has a few Black folks seeing red! A 22-year old Hawaiian college senior became the first “non-black person” to be crowned Miss Hampton at the prestigious Historically Black institution last Friday.
The prize is $1,500 and makes her the homecoming queen as well as the school’s entrant in the 2010 Miss Virginia pageant. But it seems that everybody on campus isn’t happy to see Nikole Churchilll — a White nursing major who attends the university’s Virginia Beach campus with about 90 other students — take the title from eligible women of color.
Nikole’s father is from Guam and her mother is Italian.
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Authorities are searching for 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson, who disappeared shortly after being released by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
Mitrice, a former beauty queen and recent California State University grad, was last seen walking out of a sheriff’s station at approximately 4:30AM one week ago. Her parents say she should never have been released at that hour with no transportation or money.
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“Mitrice is not street savvy,” her mother, Latice Sutton, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Friday from Los Angeles, on Friday. “Mitrice has had a pretty sheltered upbringing.” Read the rest of this entry »
Former Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland made it a very special birthday for Jasmina Anema, a leukemia patient, who turned 6 on Wednesday.
Jasmina is currently battling a rare form of leukemia that doctors fear could kill her in a matter of months. The young girl desperately needs a bone marrow transplant.
“This young, beautiful little girl needs a match,” Kelly told ABC News. “When you meet her you just can’t help but fall in love.”
Jasmina is adopted and has no sibling, so finding a donor match – which would most likely come from an another African- American – is especially difficult.
“It’s one in a million,” says Jasmina’s mom, Theodora Anema. “We really need the African-American community to step up.”
If you’re in the New York City area, a donor drive will be held for Jasmina at Public School 41 (116 W. 11th St.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m this Saturday . For more information, contact DKMS, a nonpprofit marrow donor center: (866)-340-3567.
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Emmy Award-winning dancer-actress Eartha Kitt, who rose from the South Carolina cotton fields become an international “sex kitten,” has died.
Family friend Andrew Freedman tells the Associated Press Ms. Kitt died of colon cancer at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City on Thursday.
Eartha Kitt was 81.
New York State Governor David Paterson is seething mad over a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at his blindness over the weekend.
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Senator Barack Obama, wife Michelle, and daughter Maia, 10, and Sasha, 7 on the August 4 issue of People Magazine.
Loren Feldman of 1938 media firm has come under fire from two civil rights groups for his recent video blog entitled Technigga. Najee Ali of Project Islamic Hope and Paul Porter of Industry Ears have issued a statement publicly protesting Loren’s offensive Vlog.
“Feldman has a history of using the internet to promote racism and demeaning and negative racial stereotypes against African Americans on his internet site. He is responsible for and appears in what he calls ‘TechNigga.’”
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