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Cain Tears Up Over His Wife at Debate
The Des Moines Register is reporting that the six GOP presidential candidates on Saturday participated in an emotional forum, confessing to foibles, failures and hardships in Iowa. The two-hour Family Leader event seemed more like a gossipy television talk show, the site says, with tears and emotions overflowing. The influential Iowa-based evangelical Christian advocacy group…
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Qaddafi's Son Reportedly Captured in Libya
The New York Times is reporting that Libya’s transitional government has announced that its fighters have captured Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the last fugitive son and one-time heir apparent of the slain dictator, Muammar Qaddafi. In a scene of celebration outstripped only by news of Colonel Qaddafi’s capture and death last month, Tripoli’s streets erupted in…
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Kwame Kilpatrick Allegedly Took $10,000 Bribe
The Detroit Free Press is reporting allegations against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that came to light after a close friend was charged with money laundering. The allegations were revealed in a superseding indictment filed in U.S. District Court in the case against Bobby Ferguson, a close friend of Kilpatrick. The charges [against Ferguson] are…
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Report: Blacks Hit by STDs More Than Whites
The infection rate for sexually transmitted diseases among African Americans and Hispanics, particularly young people, continues to be greater than that of whites, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual report. Overall, sexually transmitted diseases continue to plague the population, with 19 million new infections occurring every year — costing the…
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Black Florida Man Burns Cross in Own Driveway
The Huffington Post is reporting that a Florida man who was trying to stop his wife from divorcing him placed a burning cross in their yard and depicted it as a threat to stay put from the Ku Klux Klan. The man, L.B. Williams, 50, of Panama City, was charged with domestic violence stalking and…
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Did PSU Hide Death Threats Against Black Students?
Brentin Mock at Loop 21 is reporting that black students and football players at Penn State University received hate mail in 2000, and they charge that officials did nothing about it. The incident is said to have occurred around the same time that an employee witnessed a boy younger than 13 being sexually molested by…
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Cain: I'm Not Supposed to Know About Foreign Policy
Just moments after his prominent gaffe while answering a question about Libya, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain confidently proclaimed that he does not have to know about foreign policy, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I’d throw that out,” he said to a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel…
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton
The New York Times is reporting that Princeton professor Cornel West will leave his post in the summer to return to Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he started out as an assistant professor in 1977. The author of 19 books tells the Times that he will teach philosophy and Christian practices at…
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Black Teens Win Praise As Young Chess Masters
Huffington Post Black Voices is reporting that three black teens have become chess masters before turning 13. Justus Williams, Joshua Colas and James Black Jr. are three African-American chess players who have obtained the hard-won title of chess master, the site reports, citing the New York Times. The trio, each of whom are from the…
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