The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

The following is a comment I posted on Afronerd’s site (note–I added one more sentence in my blurb): I think one of the biggest complaints I heard against J.W. commentary (“Taylor’s death a grim reminder for us all“) was the fact that he laid part of the blame on hip hop. Personally, I would not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Gregory Kane writes… Young (Sen. Larry Young) said that after he first learned of Philadelphia’s efforts, he was driving to work one day when the inspiration hit him: If Philadelphians can pull together 10,000 men to hit the streets and curb that city’s homicide rate, why can’t Baltimoreans? (The Sun ran two articles about the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Immigrants, illegals use welfare more often By Stephen Dinan washingtontimes.com Both immigrants and illegal aliens are more likely to be poor and to use welfare programs than native-born Americans because they come to the country with lower levels of education, according to a new study looking at U.S. Census Bureau data. “The problem here is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

British teacher tried for inciting religious hatred with teddy bear named ’Muhammad’ (AP) KHARTOUM, Sudan – A British teacher went on trial today on charges of inciting religious hatred by letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, a crime punishable by up to 40 lashes and six months in jail. Gillian Gibbons walked in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

While I may have been just a glimmer in my mother’s eye when the movie “Planet of the Apes” first came out it theaters, I do remember all the reruns of the entire series that came on television throughout the 70′s as well as the cartoon and the miniseries. I even had the lunchbox . […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

CAGW Uploads Database of Labor-HHS Earmarks Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today makes public a comprehensive, searchable database of the 2,243 earmarks worth $1 billion in the Fiscal 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Act, H.R. 3043. “CAGW provides taxpayers with the information that Congress wants to keep […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…