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A man is posed on a motorcycle at his own funeral. CNN’s Jeanne Moos has more on what’s termed “unusual post-mortem” displays. Click HERE to view more.
Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over the French army in 1862’s Battle of Puebla. While the holiday doesn’t have great significance in Mexico, in the United States Cinco de Mayo is a widely acknowledged as day to to recognize and celebrate Mexican culture and pride. Recently, however, Mexican-Americans and other Latinos in […]
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many man-made environmental disasters that this country has produced in its history. Before the recent oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico had plenty of environmental issues. There is actually an area of the gulf that is considered a “dead zone” that is the […]
// From CNN: The Cumberland River is receding in swamped Nashville, Tennessee, but Music City faces a long recovery from the historic flooding. The floods left landmarks, homes and businesses underwater in the country music capital. Text continues after gallery … At least 27 deaths were blamed on flooding in the Southeast, 18 of them […]
From My Fox DC: WASHINGTON – A young college student claims she was shot by a man because she refused to give him her phone number. The young woman, whose identity has been protected, told police she was leaving a party in southeast Washington early Sunday when a man asked for her number. Text continues […]
Heavy storms and flooding killed at least 29 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky, damaged thousands of homes and threatened the heart of Nashville’s tourism district. Tennessee was the hardest hit, as muddy waters continued rising in the central and western parts of the state after as much as 18 inches of rain fell over […]
From NYDailyNews.com: Saving the day is all in thefamily for Lance Orton, the T-shirt vendor credited with first telling cops about the bomb-packed SUV parked in the heart of Times Square. His sister is a disaster response expert: Dr. Gina Orton 54, of Virginia, works as a psychiatrist with the Justice Department, counseling law enforcement […]
From the NY Post: A 19-year-old Connecticut college student last week sold her Nissan Pathfinder over the Internet — only to learn that it was used in Saturday’s attempted bombing of Times Square. Peggy Colas of Bridgeport recalled that the buyer — identified by sources last night as Shahzad Faisal a naturalized America of Pakistani […]
The first intercollegiate Greek-letter organization established by African Americans is speaking out against the controversial Arizona immigration law. As previously reported, governor Jan Brewer signed a bill set to take effect this summer that permits law enforcement to question people’s immigration status at their discretion. The controversial concept has sparked outrage particularly in the Hispanic community who […]
Black Americans have historically been undercounted by the U.S. Census, and as a result our communities have missed out on federal funding and other resources that were sorely needed. This year, do your part to make sure that your neighborhood is accurately counted by filling out and returning your Census form. If you haven’t done […]
From MSNBC: VENICE, La. – President Barack Obama toured the staging area for response efforts to the Gulf Coast oil spill on Sunday, afterwards saying “we’re dealing with a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.” Mindful of the political damage suffered by President George W. Bush for a slow response after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the […]
