While her ex-husband faces execution, Mildred Muhammad is out peddling her book, Scared Silent, about her life with John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper who killed ten people in the Washington, D.C., area. Muhammad has said that she felt a sense of guilt in connection with the slayings, believing that those people caught bullets meant…

Former President Clinton is taking to Capitol Hill today to discuss health care reform with Senate Democrats and their independent colleagues. At a Tuesday lunch, Clinton is exptected to push for reform and discuss his own failed attempt at reform during his presidency: From CNN: “A notice obtained by CNN went out to Senate Democrats…

Scenario: Columbia architecture professor and the production manager from the school theater department are in a heated discussion on race in a Harlem bar. Professor takes exception with something production manager says. Prof mollywhops production manager. Prof is black, production manager is white. Prof is male, production manager is female. Cue the NY Post: “Police…

John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection today at the Greensville Correctional Facility for the deaths of at least ten people during a three-week killing spree in October 2002. His lawyer, Jon Sheldon and co-counsel James G. Connell, are still working to prevent that from happening. From the Washington Post: “They condemn…

Sammy Sosa is tired of the love Robert Pattison is getting and has apparently decided to give the ‘Twilight’ star a run for his money. At least in complexion. Sosa arrived at the Latin Grammys on November 5th looking ghostly. Was it vitiligo? Was it a side effect of steroids? A friend of Sosa’s, Rebecca…

Well, the Kansas City Chiefs are giving Larry Johnson a little time to consider what “public domain” really means. Johnson, the troubled running back who was most recently suspended by the team for anti-gay remark he posted on Twitter, has been let go by the Kansas City Chiefs. From ESPN: Johnson, who turns 30 on…

In the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, the Feds want to know the the nature of the relationship between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American-born imam said to support al Qaeda since relocating to Yemen. Hasan attended the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia in 2001 when al-Aulaqi was its…

If you’re thinking the Senate is going to follow the House’s lead on health insurance reform, think again. Some moderate Dems—and one turncoat Independent by the name of Lieberman—are opposed to any insurance bill and will vote against any bill that has such a provision in place. From The Associated Press: If a government plan…

Is Dr. Gates game-changing? The Huffington Post has placed him in some heady media company and wants to know who is the MVP: Changing The Game By: Overseeing an online hub for and about black America in the Obama era. The Root is a kind of virtual update of The Crisis, the official magazine of…

UPDATE: Click here to watch streaming video of news updates from Orlando. The latest from Orlando from BNO News: A mass shooting was reported at the Gateway Center in Orlando on Friday morning, according to fire officials. Orlando Fire Department spokeswoman Vicky Robles told BNO News that at least eight people were injured in the…