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South African Workers Strike; Jacob Zuma Not Too Pumped
From BBC: Central Johannesburg has been brought to a halt as hundreds of South African workers marched as part of a strike to demand higher wages. Many commuters were stranded because buses failed to run. Rubbish has also not been collected. About 150,000 workers in the country have stopped work. Unions say most public services…
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12 Shot at Baltimore Cookout
From NewsOne: Sixteen people were shot, two of them fatally, in three separate incidents in a two-mile radius in east Baltimore Sunday night, police said. Detectives were searching Monday morning for a gunman who opened fire at a backyard cookout, wounding 12 people, police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. None of the dozen victims suffered…
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Set It Off: Clash Between Nigerian Muslims and Police Leaves Over 40 Dead
From Al Jazeera: At least 42 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after clashes erupted between police and members of a Muslim group in Nigeria, a hospital source said.The clashes began after a failed dawn attack on Sunday on a police station in Dutsen Tenshin, a neighbourhood of the city of Bauchi, capital of the state of the…
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Ex-Boxing Champ Vernon Forrest Killed in Atlanta Carjacking
From CNN: Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest is dead after being shot multiple times in a neighborhood southwest of downtown Atlanta, officials said Sunday. An Atlanta police spokeswoman said it appeared that Forrest, 38, had been robbed, which led to a confrontation in which he was shot several times in the back. Police had no…
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Beauty, the Brush and Black Girl Pain
At first blush, it looks like a familiar ritual in many black homes: A little girl with abundantly gorgeous, kinky-curly coils sits down with her mother/caregiver for a little grooming. Like most little girls, she’s none too happy to be participating in said ritual. So she lets her displeasure show. And that’s when a harmless…
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E. Lynn Harris: 1955-2009
To read an E. Lynn Harris novel was to eavesdrop on the lives of the young, black and fabulous. The, young, black, conflicted and fabulous, that is: Harris made a name for himself chronicling the lives of the beautiful and the buff, men living on the down low, having lots of hot, tormented sex while…
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Why Obama Did Not, Should Not, Apologize to Officer Crowley
There is no greater bully pulpit in the world than that of the presidency of the United States. At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, President Obama, before a stunned White House Press Corps, used the reach of his megaphone to try to tame a wildfire started two days earlier when he waded into the Henry Louis…
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VIDEO: Wedding Celebrates Chris Brown
To quote Paul Wall, this has the internet going nuts. And we thought the Jazz and Jewel entrance was tough.
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Author E. Lynn Harris Dead at 54
From the Arkansas Times: E. Lynn Harris, the best-selling Arkansas author known for contemporary stories about African-Americans, has suffered a serious health setback. His personal assistant confirmed an unspecified health event, but said she was awaiting word from a hotel where Harris was staying on a book tour before providing further information. UPDATE: Arkansas Sports 360…
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