President Obama said Wednesday that Rosa Parks’ example in 1955 — confronting segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus — should inspire all Americans to face up to today’s challenges. All too often, faced with children who are hungry, neighborhoods “ravaged by violence” and families hobbled by unemployment or illness, […]
Anheuser-Busch is ripping off beer drinkers by watering down Budweiser, Michelob, and other brands, according to class-action lawsuits from drinkers across America. Lawyers say the company uses technology designed to accurately measure alcohol content to dilute its beers just before bottling, making the beer 3% to 8% weaker than what it says on the label, Bloomberg reports. […]
Bobby Brown is going to jail. The New Edition member has been sentenced to 55 days behind bars after pleading no contest to DUI. In addition, Brown will be on probation for four years and must complete an 18-month alcohol education program. He must turn himself in by March 20, but until then, he has to attend three AA […]
Are sons bad for your health? A Finnish study finds that women who had several don’t live as long after the last birth as do women who have daughters. The research, however, may be a bit dated: Researchers reviewed 300 years of parish data, and most of the women involved were born before 1960, LiveScience reports. In […]
Who needs diplomats when you’ve got Dennis Rodman? The former NBA great, perhaps best known at this point for his flamboyant appearance and very messy personal life, has a new gig … as an ambassador to North Korea. Rodman arrived in the communist country today to engage in “sports diplomacy,” the AP reports. He and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters […]
The undisputed queen of sneakaway weddings pulled it off again and announced in brilliant, oh-by-the-way aloofness, that she and Wissam Al Mana, her billionaire businessman boyfriend husband, have actually been married for quite some time. Like since last year. Catch up, y’all. The secretive mister and missus shuttled a statement over to Entertainment Tonight to squelch speculation about some impending grandiose ceremony, […]
BORN-AND-RAISED Philadelphian Danielle Harvey never really saw herself moving away from her hometown. Then, last spring, she witnessed a shooting at the same bus stop where she had been robbed about a month before. Harvey, 24, who worked at a law office in Center City, said that she was able to shake off the robbery, […]
Some New York City teachers have found themselves in hot water over a math assignment for fourth graders featuring questions like, “In a slave ship, there can be 3,799 slaves. One day, the slaves took over the ship. 1,897 are dead. How many slaves are alive?” The assignment came to light when a substitute teacher […]
On a chill if sunny winter’s day, Jesse Jackson Jr. reminded the world of the perils of being born on third base and thinking you’ve hit a triple. A symbol of entitlement run terribly amok, the former congressman pleaded guilty Wednesday to grossly misusing campaign funds. The juxtaposition of his pain with the far more upbeat reality […]
First came the bangs, then the official portrait. Michelle Obama’s portrait, her official photo of President Obama’s second term, was released by the White House on Wednesday. The photo, taken by Chuck Kennedy, shows FLOTUS in the Green Room of the White House leaning against a green chair, a lovely contrast to her dark two-toned dress. […]
HERB WARD, a Philadelphia R&B singer of the ’60s and ’70s, had the unusual distinction of being more popular in England at one point in his career than at home. His hit “Honest to Goodness” did make a splash when it was played on WHAT-AM in Philly in 1969, but in England it sold more […]
Police have charged a 19-year-old woman in connection with the abduction and rape of a 5-year-old girl from a West Philadelphia school in January. Christina Regusters, of the 6200 block of Walton Avenue, is charged with 14 crimes in all including rape, kidnapping and assault. This is the only arrest at this time. The investigation […]