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  • Google Donates $11.5 Million to Fight Slavery

    Did you know that Google had a philanthropic arm called Google.org? Well, if you didn’t know, now you do because of the news that Google.org will donate $11.5 million to fight slavery around the world. The donation, announced by the tech giant earlier today, will fight to end the modern-day enslavement of more than 27…

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  • Romney's Slogan Used by Ku Klux Klan

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  • Time Names the Protester Its 2011 Person of the Year

    The Greek protests. Occupy Wall Street. The Arab Spring. Time magazine unveiled its 2011 Person of the Year today, and everyone involved with the aformentioned protests can now claim they made a magazine cover. The magazine named “the protester” the winner, beating out finalists Kate Middleton, Admiral William McRaven and Rep. Paul Ryan. This is…

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  • House Passes Extension of Payroll-Tax Cut

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  • MTV's 'True Life' Seeks Black Woman Going Natural

    MTV is a network whose shows go hand in hand with the word “criticism.” But this may be one of the first True Life episodes that actually has a positive spin to it. The network is currently casting for an African-American woman who is going from a weave to her natural hair. Now, as many…

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  • 3 FAMU Students Arrested in Beating, Hazing

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  • Occupy Protesters Shut Down Oakland Ports

    The movement is not on its last legs. Occupy Oakland protesters shut down the California city’s ports yesterday as similar protests went on in Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, Ore., at the same time. The protests, which lasted throughout the night, cost hundreds of port workers wages and shifts. Port of Oakland Executive Director Omar…

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  • First Lady Leads Group to Break Jumping Jacks Record

    First lady Michelle Obama must love herself some Kris Kross, because she loves to “Jump, Jump.” The first lady announced in a video on the White House website that more than 300,000 people around the world participated in an October event to break the world jumping jacks record. Mrs. Obama led more than 400 kids…

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  • NAACP Slams Tea Party's Obama 'Skunk' Photo

    This story sure stinks. An ultraconservative Kansas Tea Party group has been slammed by a local NAACP chapter for a picture of President Obama being described as a skunk that they call “racist.” The Patriot Freedom Alliance recently posted a photo on its website with a caption: The skunk has replaced the eagle as the…

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  • School Hands Out Belts to Stop the Sag

    Administrators at a South Carolina school are tired of seeing their students with pants hanging off their behinds. So what are they doing about it? Northwestern High School Principal James Blake decided it was time to start handing out belts. “We see kids with their britches hanging down all the time,” assistant football coach and…

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