Countless New Yorkers were roused from a sound slumber at 3:51 a.m. Wednesday by an emergency message transmitted via their cellphones: a missing child. The alert set off cellphones across the city after the New York Police Department reported that…
Juror B37’s tell-all book about the acquittal of George Zimmerman is off the table. The anonymous juror had announced Monday through a literary agent that she hoped to write the book that would give a behind-the-scenes look at the jury…
While performing in Canada, Stevie Wonder stated his displeasure in Florida and their Stand Your Ground laws that, although it wasn’t mentioned in the case, was most likely one of the underlining hand that helped George Zimmerman to walk free….
A member of the jury in George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial spoke publicly for the first time Monday night, saying that only three of six jurors thought Zimmerman should be acquitted when deliberations began. Two members of the all-female jury…
HMMM …Maybe these Kids should have been on the Zimmerman Jury…. It appears a bunch of kids are more mature than some YouTube commentators. When a Cheerios commercial featuring a biracial couple launched two months ago, it was met with so…
Howard Morgan As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers — and lived…
There’s new fuel for the fire that Apple’s working on technology for an updated TV set top box or TV platform. Citing unnamed sources, tech writer Jessica Lessin (formerly of the Wall Street Journal), saysApple’s been meeting with cable companies to…
Legendary R&B singer Lester Chambers was attacked by a crazed woman Saturday night during a musical festival in Hayward, California. The attack came after Chambers dedicated Curtis Mayfield’s hit “People Get Ready” to Trayvon Martin following the announcement of George…
An agent from Martin Literary Management has confirmed that juror B37 of the George Zimmerman trial has signed a deal to write a book about her experiences on the jury. Sharlene Martin, a literary and media manager for the company, said that…
Many of us lead busy lives and everyone, especially those of us with families, is trying to get dinner on the table as quickly and easily as possible. Occasionally we fall back on using prepackaged meals from the grocery store…
Andrew Weber blogs about TV at The Drug of the Nation. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. In the light of The Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini’s unfortunate recent passing, and the end of Mad Men’s sixth and penultimate season, there’s no better time to…
Awareness. A crazy thing, because once you have been made aware.. you can never “un-know it” As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger strikers continue their silent protests in Guantánamo. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. Via a leaked document…