Minutes after President Obama announced the news that Bin Laden has been killed, many of our BlackPlanet community members began to react to the news that has brought some measure of peace to the families who had victims of his various terrorist attacks. Below are some of the comments by some Black Planet members: By […]
WASHINGTON — Still-secret photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye, a U.S. official said, as fresh details emerged of an audacious American raid that netted potentially crucial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global terrorist leader. President Barack Obama is going to ground […]
NEW YORK– An 8-year-old boy took his father’s loaded 9-mm handgun to a Queens school Thursday and sold it to a classmate for $3, cops said.
NEW YORK–President Barack Obama spoke on the release of his birth certificate during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday shortly after the White House made the document public.
Washington D.C. — A 16-year-old kid was stabbed multiple times Monday at the Smithsonian Zoo during a traditional Easter event for African-American families. NBC Washington reports: Around 4 p.m., D.C. fire and rescue officials received several calls about a stabbing victim at the 2900 block of Connecticut Avenue, and upon arrival they found a teenage […]
ST. LOUIS — A powerful tornado ripped through the St. Louis Airport Friday, cutting a 22-mile swath of destruction that tore through Concourse C. It was the area’s most powerful tornado in 44 years, according to the AP. The video below gives some real insight into how intense the St. Louis tornado really was, as […]
Florida– Four pre-teen students were pricked by a hypodermic needle one of the students found at the school bus stop according to the local authorities.
WASHINGTON — There are probably a lot of people walking the earth who were conceived to it — and now Al Green’s song “Let’s Stay Together” is getting another bit of recognition. It’s among the 25 songs that will be added this year to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The library […]
TOKYO — Workers at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant on Wednesday finally halted a leak that was sending a tide of radioactive water into the Pacific and exacerbating concerns over the safety of seafood, the operator said.
Dr. David M. French was a former Howard University professor of pediatric surgery who treated the injuries of civil rights protesters in the 1960s and fought to stop the segregation of health-care facilities. He passed away on March 31 at the age of 86. Dr. French was also a founding member of the Medical Committee […]
Detroit, Michigan– Detroit is facing the challenge of cutting city costs by down-sizing the city and consolidating the city’s inhabitants in response to the rapid population decrease. Their ultimate plan is to have numerous people from all ends of the city relocate to the “strongest and most viable” neighborhoods, so the city can cost-effectively provide […]
NEW YORK-While many sectors of the economy have not recovered from the recession, “loosies” or Black market single sold cigarettes are providing income for a lot of people in New York City. The New York Times reports: “The tax went up, and we started selling 10 times as much,” Mr. Warner said. “Bloomberg thinks he’s […]
