A central Alabama judge ordered a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for wearing so-called saggy pants. Twenty-year-old LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in Autauga County Circuit Court on Tuesday to enter a plea on a charge of receiving stolen property. Circuit Judge... Read more...
Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does. The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for hea... Read more...
Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was a educator, writer and activist. She was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina from 1885 to 1887 and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1892 to 1893 under Frederick Douglass. She became a professor at Wilberforce in 189... Read more...
Margaret Walker Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander was a poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. Walker was a literature professor at what is today Jackson State University (1949 to 1979). In 1968, Walker founded the Institute for the Study of History, L... Read more...
Unfortunely this is part of our history; I feel like people need to know there are still minstrels in entertainment today but without the paint. So, before Lil Wayne and BET, in the 1840s and 50s, William Henry Lane and Thomas Dilward became the first African Americans to perform on the minstre... Read more...
Taco Bell "beef" pseudo-Mexican delicacies are really made of a gross mixture called "Taco Meat Filling" as shown on their big container's labels, like the one pictured here. The list of ingredients is gruesome. Updated. Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, toma... Read more...
When Emily Cooper headed off to first grade in Moody, Ala., last week, she was prepared with all the stuff on her elementary school’s must-bring list: two double rolls of paper towels, three packages of Clorox wipes, three boxes of baby wipes, two boxes of garbage bags, liquid soap, Kleenex and ... Read more...
// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var impressionPostSlug = "lost-in-translation-is-dr-kings-dream-a-beautiful-nightmare"; var impressionPostId = "524552"; // ]]> When this episode of The Boondocks aired with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr saying the N-word there was a considerably amou... Read more...
The 2009 season ended a few days ago, which means it's time to look ahead to 2010. Thus, our early, early top 25 for next season (did we mention it's really early?). This top 25 was put together on the assumption that underclassmen who haven't declared for the draft will stay in school. That's ... Read more...