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Guide Dog Risks Life to Save Owner
Cecil Williams, who is blind, left his home with his guide dog Orlando on a trip to the dentist. Williams began to feel faint while standing on a Manhattan subway platform and Orlando, a black lab, tried to prop Williams back up. “He tried to hold me up,” the emotional Williams told the Associated Press…
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Tulane Student Youngest Member of Mississippi House of Representatives
As a sophomore at Moss Point High School in Mississippi, Jeramey Anderson became interested in politics, and it’s a good thing, considering that those years in high school prepped him to become Mississippi’s youngest legislator, at age 22. Anderson is a senior at Tulane University’s Gulf Coast campus in Biloxi, Miss., where he studies homeland…
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George Zimmerman, the Next Picasso?
The art world has a new contemporary to add to its list of budding artists: George Zimmerman. That’s right, the acquitted shooter of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen, is leveraging his “celebrity” to hock one of his original works on eBay. According to the Los Angeles Times, an eBay user with the alias “therealgeorgez”…
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Senate Confirms Jeh Johnson to Head Homeland Security
Democrats used the newly adjusted anti-filibustering rules to win Senate confirmation of Jeh Johnson, the president’s top pick for secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate voted 78-16 to confirm Johnson, a former top lawyer for the Pentagon who served as general counsel to the Defense Department during most of President Obama’s first term, ABC News…
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TMZ Poll: ‘African American’ or ‘N–ga’?
Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight told TMZ that he is offended when people call him African American because he isn’t African. Knight said that the term is offensive to black people, TMZ reports. But Knight didn’t stop there, and neither did TMZ. Knight explained that he didn’t understand the controversy surrounding the word…
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No One Wants Michael Jordan’s Old House
Even after a modest price reduction, the house that was once home to arguably the greatest player ever to grace the hardwood is still for sale. Michael Jordan’s 56,000-square-foot home in suburban Chicago has failed to sell at auction after the bidding fell short, according to the Associated Press. The 7-acre estate in Highland Park,…
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Bob Woodward: Budget Deal Happened Because Obama Wasn’t Involved
A federal budget deal was reached that would avoid another government shutdown because President Obama wasn’t involved in the negotiations, Washington Post columnist Bob Woodward said Sunday on Fox Morning News. The budget bill replaces $65 billion in across-the-board spending cuts that were set for this year and next. “I think this budget deal worked,…
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Melissa Harris-Perry Has Some Tough Questions for Santa
Melissa Harris-Perry has some tough questions for the bearded man from the North Pole. “I know it’s a busy time of year, but we need to settle a little debate that’s emerged in American media asking, ‘Are you white? Are you black? When you come in from the North Pole, do you have a legal…
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Prime Ministers Show Support for Presidential Selfie
In a show of support for President Obama, who has taken some heat for a selfie taken during Nelson Mandela’s memorial service this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark, say the photo wasn’t inappropriate. “There were lots of pictures taken that day, and I just thought it was…
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Michael Jordan ‘Flu Game’ Sneakers Go for Record Price
The game was the stuff of legend. A flu-sickened Michael Jordan, battling fatigue and a 103-degree fever, played spectacularly in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals, going for 38 points, seven rebounds, five assists and a game-clinching three-pointer to push his Chicago Bulls past the Utah Jazz. But it was a ball boy, who…
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