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Daija Owens stars as a young Queenetta in NBC’s latest sitcom “Best Friends Forever.” A soft-spoken Daija portrays a sassy and ghetto 9-year-old who clashes with her two white neighbors who have watched her grow up into the stereotype she is. In the trailer for the April premiere, Queenetta tells her adult friend that she […]
The photo was taken of a truck they were driving behind in Virginia. We can’t tell if it’s a thoughtless oversight or a downright offensive pun calling President Obama the N-Word but it’s tasteless either way. Is that short for “Don’t re-elect the the N-word”? because renig (spelled without the hyphen) means to back out […]
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By Donal Ware It’s been a couple of weeks since NBA All-Star Weekend and I had an absolute blast in Orlando. I had the opportunity to catch up and interview quite a few players. One of those players is former Duke star Kyrie Irving. Irving is having a spectacular, perhaps better than expected season with […]
AW North Carolina in Durham’s Treyburn area is adding 250 jobs in the next year as part of their expansion.
President Barack Obama is getting another dose of the reality of his job: the out-of-his-control events that shape whether he will keep it. He is lobbying Israel not to launch on attack on Iran that could set the Middle East on fire and pull the United States into another war. He is struggling to get […]
One shooting was reported Sunday night just after 8:30 p.m. A man was shot in the leg in the 1400 block of North Hyde Park Avenue, according to Durham police. The man was transported to the hospital for treatment of injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening, according to Kammie Michael, Durham police spokeswoman. […]
The North Carolina Central University Police Department has received multiple reports of a check fraud scam on campus. Campus police have identified a suspect who has been targeting victims as they walk on or near the campus, but no arrest has been made yet. The woman suspect has been reported to be flagging down her […]
CEO Harry Bailes, a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur, started Family Health Network in 2009 with a simple goal: to make technology both usable and useful for seniors. “Older people shouldn’t be thought of as liabilities but as assets,” he said. “They have become disconnected. Their health is dependent upon the roles that they play.” Bailes, 65, said the […]
BERKELEY-Jewish students at the University Of California at Berkeley have criticized Minister Louis Farrakhan’s recent speech that opened the Afrikan Black Coalition Conference which brought in students from across the state of California. In his speech, Farrakhan told Black students to create jobs for themselves and to learn more about Black history. He also brought […]
