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Obama Declares June LGBT Pride Month
Lorna Bracewell of The Political Whore is certainly moved by President Obama vocalizing support for the LGBT community, but something in the move has given her cause to pause. Why? Because the President seems more concerned with setting aside a month to honor the LGBT community and not as concerned about seeing that the individuals…
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Ma Ma Se, Ma Ma Sa, Ma Ma Coo Sa! King of Pop to Open Casino
Contact Music reports that Michael Jackson is planning on opening a casino to boost is dwindling fortune. The ‘Thriller-themed’ gambling den is scheduled to open its doors in Las Vegas next year. It is also being alleged that Jackson is working on a new album, a museum and several movie projects. All of this in…
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Presidents Move in Silence
Daily Beast columnist Richard Wolffe’s forthcoming book Renegade: The Making of a President outlines Obama’s meteoric rise to power. In a recent excerpt provided to The Beast, Wolffe details showdowns with Hillary Clinton and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Each is an interesting treatment of political wrangling and how Obama maneuvered his way to the top. While…
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Video: Man Thwarts Robbery by Shooting Teen, then Shoots Him Five More Times
57-year old war veteran Jerome Ersland has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 16-year old Antwun Parker in Oklahoma City. Parker had been a participant in an attempted convenience store robbery which Ersland thwarted when he shot Parker in the head. After pursuing the other suspect, Jevontia Ingraham, unsuccessfully, Ersland returned…
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Video: President Obama Has More G than You
Yes; watching clips like this makes you feel a little worse about yourself as an accomplished human being. But unles you’re Timothy Geithner or Larry Summers, you at least don’t have to worry about being responsible for bringing our economy back from the brink. Though, considering how cool dude looks taking his misses out, you…
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Eminem Willing to Suffer for his Art
Was it staged? Neither Bossip nor the good people of the NSA know for sure, but the fact is this: Eminem was involved in a MTV Movie Awards prank that left him more acquainted with the junk of Sacha Baron Cohen than he would probably like to be. During the Best Male Performer presentation at…
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Israeli PM and President Obama No Longer Following Each Other's Tweets
Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama were bound to bump heads eventually. Reuters is reporting that the Israeli Prime Minister has little interest in Obama’s all for a settlement freeze and said in a speech Monday that Israel would continue to build within Jewish settlements in occupied territory. Not wanting to come off as entirely defiant,…
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15% of Black Folks Are Not Employed
As WorldNetDaily reports, the jobless rate in Black America has reached a staggering %15 percent, five points above the national average and about twice that of White Americans. Even more alarming is that fact that this jobless trend is coinciding with the summer months, a time when people of all races, credos and orientations have…
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Space: So Post-Black There Aren't Blacks at All
Danielle Belton of The Black Snob pens a pretty spot-on treatment of the realities people of color face in Hollywood’s vision of the future for American Prospect. Not only is life beyond the Milky Way rather milky indeed, but also those coloreds who have ascend to power seem only there to fill a quota and…
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Air France Jet Disappears Over Atlantic
Air France Jet Disappears Over Atlantic USA Today reports that all passengers are feared dead after the Air France jet hit a heavy turbulence and thunderstorms in its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The search area where the plane may have gone down is vast and “Brazil’s military searched for the plane off…
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