Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the mother of the imprisoned ex-mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick, lost her bid for an eighth term with a Democratic-primary defeat Tuesday. The 65-year-old Detroit congresswoman lost to State Sen. Hansen Clarke of Detroit, who had 47 percent of the vote to Kilpatrick’s 41 percent, with 56 percent of precincts reporting. Rep.…

Fresh from our “Wow” file, the Nike big-butt ad that has the Internet buzzing is actually a fake. According to Jezebel.com, the person who created it took the copy from a 2005 campaign. The current Nike ad for the Trainer One is body-part free. We guess you can’t trust a big butt and a smile…

A federal judge in California has overturned the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, ruling Wednesday that the state’s controversial Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found in his ruling that the ban violated the Constitution’s equal-protection clause under the 14th Amendment. The closely watched case came almost two years after…

MSNBC’s Tamron Hall has finally said what needed to be said about the media’s role in the Shirley Sherrod debacle: We got it wrong. In an interview with Death+Taxes, Hall admits that getting the Shirley Sherrod story wrong was “a real kick in the gut for credible journalists.” She also said, “[The media] should be…

Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am is speaking out against Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, which is expected to be released at the end of the year. The album will consist of previously unreleased tracks taken from Michael Jackson’s vaults. Will.i.am, who collaborated with Jackson before his death, believes that it should not happen because the…

Fresh from our “Please don’t let ’em be black” file: The man who killed eight people and then himself at a Connecticut brewery reportedly spoke with his mother before taking his life. His mother says that he told her about shooting the people who had harassed him at the job. “He said, ‘I killed the five…

Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean is making it known that he will run for president of his home country, Haiti. Jean, who has been a strong advocate of Haiti, even before the earthquake, has decided to take a stronger role in helping rebuild the earthquake-ravaged country. The singer says that he knew he would have…

Women do almost as well as men economically in the workplace, as long as they don’t have children. It seems that once women have children, their lives change drastically. Really. After having children, they are not as able to come to work early, stay late or compete for promotions in the way that men, with…