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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Accepts Nobel Prize
The Associated Press is reporting that three women’s-rights activists on Saturday accepted the vaunted 2011 Nobel Peace Prize while urging women to fight against male oppression. “My sisters, my daughters, my friends — find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo. Sirleaf,…
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N-Word Chant Benches Girls' Hoops Team
“One, two, three, n—ger!” A Buffalo girls basketball was suspended after players reportedly used those words as part of a pregame cheer, the Daily News reports. Tyra Batts, the sole African-American on the Kenmore East High School’s squad, told the Buffalo News that her teammates would hold hands before the game, say a prayer and…
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GOP 'Turning the Clock Back to Days of Jim Crow'
During a speech on the House floor, the Hill reports that Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) lashed out at Republican lawmakers for pushing for new voter-identification laws that would disenfranchise black voters. “It’s no coincidence that a disproportionate number of these affected voters come from communities of color as well as the poor, the elderly and…
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Inspectors Knew About Welfare Recipient's $1.2 Million Home
King 5 Seattle is reporting that government inspectors knew that a Seattle resident was receiving housing assistance while residing in a $1.2 million waterfront home. Inspectors visited the home at least nine times since Lyudmila Shimonova moved in — yet none of the officials reported the possibility of fraud. Altogether, Shimonova received $135,000 in housing…
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Study: Teen Sexting Fears Overblown?
New research suggests that fears of teen sexting may be overblown, the Associated Press reports, citing two studies released Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Only 1 percent of kids aged 10 to 17 have shared images of themselves or others that involve explicit nudity, a nationally representative study found. Roughly the same number said they’d…
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Notorious Gang Leader's Death Sentence Overturned
The California Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of one of Los Angeles’ most notorious gang leaders because of a technicality, according to MSNBC. Cleamon “Big Evil” Johnson, who police say committed or ordered 20 murders during the 1980s and early 1990s, was convicted of ordering a hit on two men in 1997. He…
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Obama Has Good Reason to Prefer Run Against Gingrich
In an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News political analyst Brit Hume argued that current GOP president front-runner Newt Gingrich would be a dream contender for President Barack Obama because, well, he totes a trainload of baggage. Here is a partial transcript from Mediaite: “It seems clear they would rather run against anyone but…
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Bronx Principal Under Fire for Facebook Picture
A Bronx, N.Y., high school principal has come under intense scrutiny after an image of her dancing with a topless man and covered in a dark liquid surfaced from her Facebook page, the Huffington Post reports. The photo showed Sharron Smalls, of New York’s Jane Addams High School, next to a topless man as he…
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