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Wynton Marsalis Hits Cuba for History-Making Jazz Concerts
Wynton Marsalis spent the weekend jamming with Cuban legends ahead of a concert series that will put musicians from the two Cold War enemies onstage together. The visit by Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra kicks off a season of unprecedented cultural exchange, with the American Ballet Theater scheduled to perform in…
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The Largest Tea Party Convention to Assemble in Richmond, Va.
The 2010 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention is expected to bring as many as 3,000 people to the Greater Richmond Convention Center, which would be more than double the size of similar conventions in other states. According to an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jamie Radtke, head of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation, says,…
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Statue of King Tut's Grandfather Discovered
A statue of Ahmenhotep III, a pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, was discovered at the site of a temple in Luxor, Egypt. According to news reports, archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a limestone statue of King Tut’s grandfather. The statue of Ahmenhotep III is four feet tall and three feet wide. It shows the…
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R&B Crooner Lyfe Jennings Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
R&B crooner Chester Bamsu Jennings, aka Lyfe Jennings, has been sentenced to three years in prison stemming from an altercation Jennings had with the mother of his children in 2008. The singer kicked down the door of a house in Smyrna, Ga., in an attempt to find Joy Pound, the mother of his children, and…
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Seton Hall Shooting: Police Capture Second Man
Police arrested the man they say provided the gun that killed one person and injured several others at an off-campus party attended by students from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Marcus Bascus was arrested 75 miles away from the scene of the murder in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He actually lives a block away from where…
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U.S., Britain and Japan Issue Travel Warning
Japan has joined the United States and Great Britain in issuing a travel alert, warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida. The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo urged Japanese citizens to be careful when using public transportation or visiting popular tourist sites because al-Qaida and other groups are targeting transportation sites around the world. Washington…
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Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon and the Roots 'Take It There' on Late Night
Justin Timberlake was a guest on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, promoting his film The Social Network, when he and Fallon broke out into a rap medley. The only thing funnier than Fallon asking if the Roots know “some Sugar Hill Gang” is how Fallon and Timberlake kick it on a number of “old skool”…
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CBC Responds to U.S. Health and Human Services Apology for Secret 1940s STD Study
The Congressional Black Caucus has responded to the U.S. Health and Human Services apology for a 1940s STD study in which Guatemalan prisoners, service members and mental-health patients were infected with gonorrhea and syphilis without their consent. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius released in English and…
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Jason L. Riley: Black Colleges Need a New Mission
In an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Jason L. Riley takes HBCUs to task for lagging behind traditional schools in graduation rates, test scores, admission requirements, endowments and preparing students for life after college. He runs through a litany of studies stating that HBCUs are inferior to mainstream universities. Riley also admonishes the…
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