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Tightening the Velvet Rope: Janet Jackson's Weight Loss Journey
Essence has a nice photo gallery documenting Janet Jackson’s weight loss over the course of her career: We’ve watched ESSENCE Music Festival headliner Janet Jackson struggle with maintaining a steady weight for most of her career. Today, with a better grasp on how to balance healthy eating with exercise, Jackson seems to finally be finding…
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AZ: 'Constitution? We Don't Need No Stinking Constitution!'
Arizona continues to keep it classy. Having already passed legislation that makes any one who looks Mexican-ish a candidate for harassment, the Arizona legislature is trying to pass a bill that would keep children born to illegal immigrants from being citizens of the United States. If only the pesky Constitution weren’t standing in their way!…
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Rebirth of Slick: Obama Plans Fourth Trip to Gulf
Fourth time’s the charm? President Obama is planning yet another trip to the BP oil spill. President Barack Obama is going back to the Gulf of Mexico, this time venturing on to new ground tainted by oil, before he speaks to the nation about what he’s seen in the afflicted states and what to expect…
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Denzel and Viola Awarded Tonys; 'Fences' Wins Too
Red was the big winner at the 2010 Tony Awards, winning best play and five other awards. Other highlights of theater’s biggest night of the year include: “Memphis,” the rhythm ‘n’ blues musical set in the American South in the 1950s, won four Tonys, including best musical. A tale of segregation and integration, “Memphis” was…
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Defense Lawyers Threaten Rwanda Boycott
The arrest of Peter Erlinder has lawyers who defend those accused of genocide worried for their own saferty. Defense lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which has been prosecuting ringleaders of the 1994 genocide, are threatening to stop participating in cases after one of their colleagues was jailed by the Rwandan government last…
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America Ties England — Not a Bad Start
Of course, the England-U.S. game in South Africa couldn’t live up to the hype, but when the whistle blew the end in a 1-1 tie, U.S. fans had to be pleased. Meeting England in the World Cup for the first time in 60 years, the underdog U.S. was under less pressure than its highly-regarded opponent. Expectations are high…
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Whoomp! There It Isn't Obama in the Tag Team Video
For the record, President Barack Obama was a civil rights attorney and lecturer at University of Chicago Law School in 1993. Really, y’all should know better. OK, maybe there’s a slight resemblance… An unbelievably awesome online rumor emerged this week that my President, Barack Hussein Obama, was in the video for Tag Team’s [1993] single…
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VIDEO: Alvin Greene Denies Being a GOP Plant
If you read our interview with Alvin Greene, you probably got the sense that South Carolina’s Democratic Senate nominee isn’t quite ready for prime time. Still, in all his painful awkwardness, he remains defiant against calls for him to leave the race over felony obscenity charges. In an interview last night on MSNBC’s Countdown With…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
