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  • Attractive Women Slighted for Certain Jobs

    A study by the University of Colorado Denver Business School has found that attractive women are sometimes overlooked for jobs considered to be “masculine.” Attractive women faced discrimination when they applied for jobs where appearance was not seen as important. These positions included job titles like manager of research and development, director of finance, mechanical engineer…

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  • Flint Serial Killer May Be Connected to Virginia Attacks

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  • Mind Your Business: Queen Latifah's Sexuality

    Fresh from our “Stay out of grown folks’ business” file, a photo of actress and singer Queen Latifah with her alleged girlfriend, personal trainer Jeanette Jenkins, has surfaced on the Web. The two were canoodling on a yacht while celebrating the nuptials of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. The Internet is buzzing again with questions…

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  • MTV Chooses First-Ever Twitter Jockey

    Gabi Gregg is MTV’s first-ever Twitter Jockey. Gregg won the role after a nationwide vote and will reporting on popular culture using Twitter, Facebook, blogs and MTV’s Web site. The Mount Holyoke alum is the founder of the fashion blog Young, Fat and Fabulous. She was raised in Detroit but lives in Chicago. Go, Gabi,…

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  • It's Official: Maxine Waters Charged With Three Ethics Violations

    California Congresswoman Maxine Waters has officially been charged with three ethics violations. The House Ethics Committee says that even as the Los Angeles Democrat was warned against interceding on behalf of a bank with ties to her husband, her chief of staff was “actively involved” in helping OneUnited. Who is her chief of staff? Her…

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  • Strange Fruit: Remembering Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith

    Eighty years ago, on August 6, 1930, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in Marion, Ind., for an alleged armed robbery and rape of a white woman. The two men were dragged from their prison cells by a mob made up of thousands and then lynched. Local photographer Lawrence Beitler took what would become the…

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  • President Obama Plays Basketball With NBA Stars

    During his birthday weekend, President Barack Obama played ball with NBA superstars at Fort McNair. LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Alonzo Mourning, Grant Hill, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Maya Moore and a host of others were in attendance. Afterward the group had a barbecue at the White House. Now, that’s what we call a birthday celebration.…

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  • MLK's Niece Calls Gay Marriage Genocide

    The niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the late Coretta Scott King spoke out against gay marriage at a National Organization for Marriage (NOM) rally in Atlanta. Alveda King likened gay marriage to a type of “extinction” and called it “genocide.” She highlighted the family’s strong commitment to marriage,…

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  • Actress Mia Farrow Contradicts Naomi Campbell's Testimony

    Actress Mia Farrow disputed Naomi Campbell’s claim that she received dirty little pebbles from former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor. Farrow testified that the supermodel told her that she had received a “huge diamond” from him. In sworn testimony last week, Campbell admitted receiving two or three “dirty-looking stones” after a 1997 dinner with Taylor at…

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  • Spike Lee Slams U.S. Report on Vanishing Oil

    Federal scientists said last week that nearly three-quarters of the oil from the BP oil debacle has been removed by various artificial or natural means, but that the spill’s effect on wildlife will long continue. Filmmaker Spike Lee says that the U.S. government report is a “lie.” He then said journalists should expose “the real story”…

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