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South Park Skewers TMZ Tiger
There’s the new Tiger Woods—let’s call him TMZ Tiger—running through his Florida McMansion, popping pills and bellowing, “Put down the golf club!” and “You’re overreacting, you stupid Swedish cow!” while an enraged Elin wields a nine-iron. She is, to put it mildly, not happy. Violently not happy: “You f*%$#@! I never should have married you! …
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Obama Tells Fox News He Will Be 'Vindicated'
His policies may be unpopular in some quarters right now, but President Obama believes his decision to push for health care reform, the economic stimulus, and new financial regulations will someday be “vindicated.” In a sometimes testy exchange with Fox News “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier yesterday, the president defended his push for health care…
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Book: Baltimore Newspaper Aided Segregation
A new book reveals the Baltimore Sun’s shocking role in spreading racial fear in the early part of the last century. Scathing editorials about how blacks and Jews were bad for property values were just the start. As B’more enacted the first U.S. laws in the early 1900s mandating racial segregation by neighborhood, the Baltimore…
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Attention, Black Walmart Shoppers
Chances are it was probably a nasty prank, but imagine how black shoppers at a Walmart in Washington Township, N.J. felt when they heard this announcement Sunday night on the public address system: “Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now,” a male voice calmly announced to the entire store. Officials of Wal-Mart…
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Tiger's Back!
Tiger Woods will return to golf in April by playing at the Masters in Augusta, Georgia. Woods, the world’s No. 1 golfer, has been on a four-month hiatus from the sport since his private life exploded into an international scandal about his infidelities. He announced his return on his web site. “The Masters is where I won my…
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A Bit of Light Reading: Obama's Education Reform Blueprint
Want the see exactly how President Obama plans to reform education? Below is the scoop on how On Saturday, March 13, the Obama administration released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which would ask states to adopt college- and career-ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student…
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Earthquake Hits Southern California
Millions in southern California received an unfortunate wake-up call this morning as they were shaken out of bed by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages. The…
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DC High School Hires Female Head Coach
It’s like ‘Wildcats’, except Natalie Randolph would lay Goldie Hawn out When Coolidge High announced in January that it was looking for a new football coach, one of the school’s science teachers was sitting in a conference room in the building when a colleague asked, “Why don’t you put your name in for it?” Natalie…
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Latina Artist's Mural Causes Stir in Times Square
Sofia Maldonado’s Times Square mural has caused quite a stir. Some say it is offensive. Others, like Keysha Whitaker of Single Women Rule, think Black folks need to take a chill pill I am sick and tired of black folks protesting stuff they have no business protesting. The object of my latest disgust is a…
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African Americans Get Few Heart-Protecting Drugs
Fewer heart-protecting drugs are prescribed to African Americans, which may help to explain why heart disease rates in the Black community are not dropping as quickly The findings, based on data for nearly 475,000 VA patients, found that African Americans had lower rates of prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering statins, as well as ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers…