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Pat Robertson tells women to “Stop talking about the cheating!” and honor their cheating husbands, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

The 700 Club has been a source of spiritual guidance for many, many, years.  The trusted source at the helm of the program is octogenarian Pat Robertson, who is showing his age with the advisement that hasn’t changed since the program began in 1966.

On Wednesday, the televangelist really showed his age and antiquated perspective when a woman wrote in looking for advice on how to deal with her husband’s infidelity.  The inquiry visibly ruffled Robertson’s feathers and the first thing out of his mouth was “Stop talking about the cheating!”  (more…)

Dorian Joyner, Jr., and his dad Dorian Joyner Sr., graduate Morehouse College together this weekend.

The graduation season is here and it’s off to a brand new life and career for students all over the country.  Some will be nostalgic remembering their first day of their college journey and being away from their parents for the first time…well, some were left by their parents.

Dorian Joyner Jr., didn’t have that experience when he started his collegiate journey at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.  His dad, Dorian Joyner Sr., joined him.  They were classmates and Junior didn’t mind.  Now, they have completed the requirements to graduate and will officially become Morehouse men walking across the stage with President Obama at the helm of their ceremony. (more…)

Here we go again with another scandalous story out of Detroit.  We have no idea why they have so many stories making national news…well, ok, maybe this one.

Mr. C’s  Tire Shop on Mack Avenue on the eastside of Detroit has given up the reasoning behind the “C” in their name.  We thought there was an upstanding guy behind the name Mr. C, but it turns out that the “word on the street” was that the C stands for crack! According to local NBC affiliate channel 4, it was well known that “Mr. Crack” was hiring employees  and paying them with crack.   (more…)

Earlene Johnson and her daughter Falicia, who is 11-years-old and 400 pounds, exercise daily in an effort to get their weight down.

Childhood obesity is a problem that doesn’t have an easy fix with the sedentary lifestyle that children have these days.  A lot of children’s only exercise is derived from the Wii and Kinect gaming systems.

Earlene Johnson is desperately seeking answers for her daughter, Falicia, who weighs in at 400 pounds at only 11 years old.  Johnson lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and insists that her and her daughter exercise daily and have been seeing a nutritionist since 2007.  Her pediatrician referred her to her Children’s Mercy Hospital for further treatment, but according to Johnson, they were no help to her either. (more…)

Impact: After the Crash is a documentary produced by survivor Harold Dennis and the MADD organization for alcohol awareness.

The drunk driving accidents in this country have began groups like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and many other efforts to get everyone to stop and get a designated driver when they’ve had a few too many drinks.  But, nothing much has changed in the last 25 years since the worst crash ever.

On May 14, 1988, 27 students and adults were killed in the worst drunk driving crash in U.S. history as a truck driver came up a road the wrong way and crashed into a school bus returning to Radcliff, Ky., from a church group amusement park outing.  Karolyn Nunnallee was so altered by the accident that took her 10-year-old daughter’s life she later served as national president of MADD and now has partnered with survivor, Harold Dennis, to revisit the tragedy through the documentary Impact: After The Crash, according to People Magazine. (more…)

The Shaniqua’s, Shanene’s, LaQuan’s, Monifa’s, LaTiquia’s and others with flavorful, unique, undeniably African American names may be intensely reading this article to see the outcome of the question: “Can I change my ghetto name?”

A woman who begged the courageous question is named “Laquita” and The Root’s Jenee’ Desmond-Harris addressed it as a question of her African American culture.  The question is definitely rhetorical because, of course, everyone knows they have the ability to legally change their name once they’re an adult.  The real inquiry appears to be one of acceptance. It almost seems as though the woman is asking the black community for  permission to change her name because she may feel she’s turning her back on her culture. (more…)

Chef Gordon Ramsay sit with Amy and Sammy Bouzaglo of the ABC Baking Company to try and fix their restaurant on the season finale of “Kitchen Nightmares”, Friday, May 10, 2013.

The world met Chef Ramsay when he was hell on wheels on the show “Hell’s Kitchen” where he was the temper tantrum throwing master chef of a restaurant.  But, it appears, on his new show, he’s met his match.

Amy and Sammy Bouzaglo, the owners of Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, Arizona, are over-the-top amateur restaurateurs,  Sammy, a self-proclaimed “gangster,” and bullies that steal their servers tips.  They have hired and fired over a hundred employees in just a year’s time and Samy doesn’t recognize taking his servant’s tips as stealing because they pay an hourly wage.  Last Friday, Chef Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares” came in to save the day and show them how a restaurant should be run, but nothing could be done for them…in the first time in the show’s history, according to the Huffington Post. (more…)

Kermit B. Gosnell, 72, also known as Dr. Death, was sentenced to three life sentences Wednesday, May 15, 2013, for diabolical abortion practices including severing infants spinal cords with scissors.

In March, we reported that abortion doctor Kermit B. Gosnell, nicknamed “Dr. Death”, was finally headed to trial for the murders of three infants by severing their spinal cords with scissors after they were born.  Now it’s time to pay the piper!

In addition to the diabolical abortion practices he used, Nepalese refugee Karnamaya Mongar who had come to Gosnell for an abortion lost her life due to an overdose of drugs administered during her abortion by his staff.  In addition to these crimes, authorities said he may have been selling drugs in a “pill mill” to drug dealers from his home. (more…)