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MHP: How Money Rules Politics
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests tackled the relationship between American politics and big money, particularly in terms of fundraising for the November election, in which, as one guest put it, “money is speech.” With Republicans and Democrats — and the super PACs — in a tight campaign-fundraising race, what are the challenges they face…
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NY Rep. Rangel Cries Foul on Censure
Rep. Charles B. Rangel is calling for an investigation of the House Ethics Committee, charging that he was unfairly treated because of party politics. In 2011, the longtime congressman from Harlem was censured by the House for failing to pay income taxes and misuse of his office to solicit fundraising donations, among others. From the…
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Prosecutor to Appeal Mubarak Conviction
Following former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s conviction on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during 2011’s uprising, the country’s top prosecutor is filing an appeal of the verdict. While Mubarak did receive life in prison for his crimes, reports the Associated Press, he and his two sons Gamal and Alaa were acquitted on corruption…
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New Book Supports Gays in Gospel Music
A leading gospel music historian for more than 50 years, Anthony Heilbut told the New York Times he’s had enough of hypocrisy in the black church. In researching his 1971 book The Gospel Sound, Heilbut met many “gays in gospel” but he didn’t reveal their personal lives in the book. However, as the current discussion…
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Inside the New Drug, Bath Salts
News outlets went into a frenzy this week over the story of a Florida man who stripped and ate another man’s face in broad daylight. His freaky behavior reportedly was caused by a new drug called “bath salts.” Jezebel reports that according to users of the not-so-new drug, “bath salts” are definitely not simply epsom…
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Jobs Still a Campaign Issue for Obama
This week, President Obama headed to Massachusetts to attack Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s gubernatorial history, while Romney focused on the now-defunct solar energy company Solyndra to attack Obama’s leadership record. However, according to the Washington Post, Obama may need to focus all his energies on America’s unemployed. On Friday the U.S. Labor Department released…
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Film on Whitney Houston's Death and the Grammys
When superstar Whitney Houston passed away in February, it was on the eve of music’s biggest awards show, the Grammys. Billboard reports that on June 11, the Recording Academy will premiere a behind-the-scenes film detailing how the performers and producers of the night’s events handled the news of Houston’s death and how that information affected…
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MHP: Obama Surrogates Refuse to Stay in Line
As President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election, he’s wrangling his team of Democratic allies, but not everyone is getting in line. Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker spoke out last week on Meet the Press, declaring that the Democrats’ attack on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital experience was “nauseating.” On Saturday’s Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, the…
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Mrs. Facebook: Meet Mark Zuckerberg's Wife
Just one day after Facebook appeared on the New York Stock Exchange in May, creator Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in Northern California. But unlike the social network billionaire, Chan does not court the spotlight. According to the New York Times, refuses interviews, dodging the spotlight so assiduously that many were surprised…
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