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  • VIDEO: John Legend, Jamie Foxx and Ledisi Perform on PBS Motown Special

    PBS aired The Motown Sound: In Performance at the White House for the Obamas on Tuesday. Featured guests included Jamie Foxx, Nick Jonas, Jordin Sparks, Seal, Gloriana and Natasha Bedingfield. Watch video of John Legend’s performance of Marvin Gaye’s classic “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” and stars like Jamie Foxx and Ledisi discuss the…

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  • NAACP Calls on District Attorney to Probe Shooting of Black Children

    Digtriad is reporting that the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP isn’t giving up its fight for additional charges against a man accused of shouting racial slurs before shooting two children. NAACP leaders met at the Caswell County courthouse Tuesday morning to make their first public call of action under the county’s new district attorney,…

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  • Brother From Another Planet: Idris Elba Cast in Sci-Fi Film 'Prometheus'

    EURweb is reporting that Idris Elba will join Sean Harris and Kate Dickie in the cast of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Prometheus, according to the director himself via the Daily Mail. Scott also confirmed the previously announced casting of Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender and revealed that the actors, who have all signed…

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  • Miscarriage of Justice: Georgia Lawmaker Proposes Death Penalty for Miscarriages

    Straight from our “Stark, raving mad” file, Jen Phillips of Mother Jones is reporting that Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin, who last year proposed turning rape and domestic violence “victims” into “accusers,” has introduced a 10-page bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion in Georgia completely illegal. Both miscarriages and abortions would be potentially “punishable…

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  • VIDEO: Female Veterans Face Unemployment and Homelessness

    The Huffington Post is reporting that despite the growing number of women serving in the armed forces, female veterans are still less accepted on the home front. American communities more readily accept — and offer help to — male service members, while female veterans are left to navigate unemployment, homlessness, hunger, and physical and mental…

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  • Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Budget: Cut $900 Million From Education

    MSNBC is reporting that embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is in a tug-of-war over collective-bargaining rights, is forging ahead with the Tuesday release of his two-year spending plan that will include major cuts to schools and local governments to help close a projected $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Walker has confirmed that he will propose…

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  • 'Job-Killing' Bills: GOP Spending Cuts Would Cost 700,000 Jobs

    Columnist Ezra Klein of the Washington Post is reporting that GOP spending cuts would cost America 700,000 jobs. He calls out the GOP in general and House Minority Leader John Boehner in particular — who label everything from health care to the stimulus bill as “job-killing” measures, yet fail to acknowledge the role that the…

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  • British Airways Employee Convicted of Bomb Plot

    MSNBC is reporting that a U.K. jury convicted a former British Airways computer specialist of plotting with U.S.-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to blow up an airplane in an attack intended to kill hundreds of people. Rajib Karim, a 31-year-old Bangladeshi man, was found guilty Monday of four counts of engaging in preparation for terrorist…

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  • Equatorial Guinea: Dictator's Son Orders $380 Million Luxury Yacht

    Fresh from the “Is it us or them?” file, Lauren Frayer of AOL is reporting that Teodorin Obiang, the son of one of West Africa’s longest-ruling dictators, has commissioned the building of a luxury superyacht for himself worth $380 million — almost three times more than his country spends annually on health and education for…

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  • Georgia Prison Guards Arrested for Retaliatory Abuse of Inmate

    ColorLines is reporting that seven Georgia prison guards were arrested for their involvement in the December beating of Terrance Dean, a 29-year-old prisoner in Macon State Prison, after a highly publicized prison strike. According to the prisoner-advocate organization Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoner Rights, witnesses said that the day after a fact-finding delegation visited Macon,…

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