It’s hard to know what the world’s coming to these days, but it is what it is. Detroit police are on high alert looking for a 10-year old that they say participated in a carjacking. The victim says that two boys used a gun to take her 2001 Cadillac DeVille this weekend. The incident [...]
Continue reading …Ashburn Elementary School coach, Idris L. Bridgeforth who resided on the 14500 block of South Parnell Avenue in Riverdale, was arrested and charged on June 7 with felony indecent solicitation and criminal s****l assault towards a 14-year-old girl. Prosecutors reported that Bridgeforth had been driving the teen to and from sporting events and practices. The [...]
Continue reading …A national search for Dr. Timothy Jorden came to an end after he shot himself after killing his girlfriend. Dr. Jorden’s body was found in the bushes near his house, which is located close to Lake Erie. He was still wearing his surgical scrubs at the time he killed himself. His girlfriend, Jacqueline Wisniewski, [...]
Continue reading …A couple in San Francisco is facing a murder charge for killing the man that they allege was the pimp of their 17-year old daughter. The girl’s father faces life in prison for what happened. Barry Gilton and his girlfriend Lupe Mercado are accused of tracking the victim and shooting him in the early morning [...]
Continue reading …Friends and neighbors say that there was something wrong with Dr. Timothy Jorden shortly before he killed his ex-girlfriend and himself. They say that Jorden was once a very meticulous man, but suddenly cared nothing about his landscaping and lost his work ethic. Jorden allegedly shot 33-year old Jacqueline Wisniewski, whose body was found in [...]
Continue reading …A third grade teacher was arraigned this week for allegedly molesting an 8-year old student at an elementary school in Harlem, according to officials. The girl is telling police that 29-year old Raphael Sosa kissed her on the lips while putting his fingers into her private parts, according to law enforcement. Prosecutors are alleging that [...]
Continue reading …A man has been indicted for feeding Vodka to his 4-month old daughter. Keith Furlow, a 30-year old man from Stone Mountain, GA, has been charged and indicted on felony murder charges and cruelty to children for the incident. The man allegedly fed his child vodka mixed with baby formula, which killed her. Police say [...]
Continue reading …Ed Gordon is back on the radio with a new two-hour weekly broadcast. The show is called “Weekend with Ed Gordon” and airs on WMXD FM in Detroit on Sundays from 12 – 2 pm and on WHUR FM in DC on Saturdays from 7 – 9 am. Dr. Boyce Watkins from Your Black World [...]
Continue reading …In a recent article for YourBlackBloggers.net, Chico C. Norwood postulates that hip-hop music on the radio is conditioning an entire generation of African American males to be unemployable. Through a long and well thought out argument, Norwood explains that men who go into the world without education good values or a productive money management system [...]
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Man Who was Shot, Stabbed as City Employee Sees Pension Drop to Just $5 Per Month
June 17, 2012 40 CommentsA man who worked for 19 years as a subway worker in New York is now seeing his $1,414 per month pension slashed to just $5 dollars. Perry Kinard was nearly killed twice on the job. In 1978, he was stabbed in the lung while mopping the floors in a Manhattan station. In 1990, he [...]
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