Don Imus

Controversial radio DJ Don Imus announced he has prostate cancer. Don Imus , the controversial radio talk show host who was fired two years ago after uttering racially charged comments, announced on Monday he is suffering from prostate cancer. Imus, 68, who took a brief hiatus from radio after the uproar caused by his remarks, told listeners on his new show that he had been diagnosed with "stage II prostate cancer." "The day you find out is fine," he said. "It's the next morning you get up...Read Full Story

If I had the time I would have replaced Imus' photo with his so you'd see a Don Imus with an Afro which means he's no different than him. Ain't he just as cute as can be??? Trendsetter? When, in his dreams?  Lifestyle Connoisseur? When did being ghetto become a lifestyle to aspire to? Not! Gossip? Hell yeah! The Best of the Bottom Feeders! For the past few years black women have been under attack, starting from Mrs. Obama on down and it's going to end! I mean we're being denigrated, oogled...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Fox business news channel of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has agreed to simulcast the radio show of Don Imus, the ratings-grabber who stirred a national controversy on race two years ago. Fox Business Network (FBN) said on Thursday it had signed a multiyear deal to show the Imus program on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. starting on October 5. "The program will incorporate additional business news into its format, which now offers a mix of current affairs, politics...Read Full Story

The Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter told a police officer in a profanity-laden rant that she cut him off in traffic because she was in a rush to get to a theater, prosecutors said Monday. "You were driving too slow. I have a play to go to," Dominique Sharpton told an officer who pulled her over Oct. 30, prosecutors told a Manhattan judge. Dominique Sharpton and the civil rights activist's ex-wife, Kathy, face charges including resisting arrest after the Harlem traffic stop. Defense lawyer Michael...Read Full Story

The Rev. Al Sharpton says there will be no federal civil rights case in the New York City police shooting of Sean Bell. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had been reviewing the shooting of the 23-year-Bell, who was gunned down outside a Queens strip club on his wedding day in 2006. Four police officers were acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in 2008. Bell's supporters had lobbied prosecutors to charge the shooters with violating Bell's civil rights. But Sharpton said Tuesday the family...Read Full Story

The broadcaster Don Imus said that he has prostate cancer, the Web site of New York’s WCBS television station reported . Mr. Imus, 68, made the remarks during the Monday morning broadcast of his syndicated “Imus in the Morning” radio program, which in New York is broadcast on WABC-AM radio ; he said that he had stage II prostate cancer, giving no further details of his prognosis, but added that he was confident his doctors would beat it. According to FoxNews.com , Mr. Imus speculated on air...Read Full Story

The Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter and ex-wife are going to trial on charges that they resisted arrest during a profanity-laden traffic stop in New York. A Manhattan judge has ordered a March 23 trial for Dominique Sharpton and her mother, Kathy Jordan. The judge refused to toss out their case on Tuesday. Their lawyer, Michael Hardy, says no crime was committed. Prosecutors say Dominique Sharpton told a police officer in October that she cut him off in traffic because she was in a rush to get to...Read Full Story

The Rev. Al Sharpton is threatening to sue Rush Limbaugh for writing that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots. Limbaugh wrote that Sharpton played "a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot" and the "1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot" in a Wall Street Journal column published Saturday. Sharpton called both allegations false. Sharpton was not present for or involved in the rioting in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section in 1991. And he wasn't present during the 1995...Read Full Story

The House Judiciary Committee says retired boxing champion Thomas Hearns, former NFL players Ted Johnson, Kyle Turley and Bernie Parrish, and the Rev. Al Sharpton are among witnesses who will appear at next week's hearing on head injuries in football. The committee will hold a session called "Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries, Part II" on Monday in Detroit. At a hearing Oct. 28 in Washington, lawmakers questioned NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about the league's approach to...Read Full Story

The Rev. Al Sharpton says he feels vindicated by the outcome of a federal investigation of election law violations during his 2004 presidential campaign. The Federal Election Commission announced Thursday that Sharpton's campaign and his civil rights group would pay combined fines of $285,000 for breaking a variety of campaign finance rules. Despite the amount of the fine, Sharpton says investigators found no evidence that his staff willfully violated the law. He says his civil rights group...Read Full Story