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POLL: D.C. Mayoral Race Is Neck and Neck
According to a poll conducted and paid for by Clarus Research Group, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his main challenger in the Democratic primary, Vincent Gray, are neck and neck. The poll found 39 percent of voters surveyed favored challenger Vincent Gray, while 36 percent favored Fenty. The difference between the two candidates is less than…
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Cuccinelli: Virginia Can Regulate Abortion Clinics
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who is anti-abortion, has issued a legal opinion allowing greater restrictions on abortion clinics. His legal opinion is drawing criticism from providers who say it could cause some of the facilities to close. Pro-choice advocates are saying that the attorney general’s actions are an attempt to circumvent the General…
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Tiger and Elin Woods Divorce
Tiger and Elin Woods are no longer married. Attorneys for the former couple announced that the two are officially divorced, confirming divorce rumors that had swirled around the couple since the disclosure of Woods’ numerous affairs. “We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,” the…
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Mitch McConnell Refuses to Clearly State the Truth About President Obama's Religion
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is on that stuff. Either that or he and some of his Republican counterparts have a hard time distinguishing fact from fiction. On an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, McConnell refused to clearly state that President Obama is a Christian. When host David Gregory asked McConnell about last week’s…
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Emmy Award-Winning CBS News Correspondent Harold Dow Dies
Emmy Award-winning CBS News correspondent Harold Dow has passed away. Dow helped shape the documentary-news genre through his work on the CBS news program 48 Hours. A career journalist, Dow covered the Patty Hearst kidnapping and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and was the first person to interview O.J. Simpson after the 1994 murder of his…
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Alicia Keys vs. Fantasia Barrino
Former American Idol winner and R&B singer Fantasia Barrino tried to kill herself. It is being reported that she took an overdose of aspirin and sleep medication in an effort to escape the media scrutiny related to her role in an alleged affair with Antwaun Cook, a married T-Mobile salesperson. Cook’s wife, Paula, filed for…
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The Blogosphere Reacts to Laura Schlessinger's N-venture
She has lost her damn mind! —Facebook user I love is that she did it in the context of telling this woman that she shouldn’t be so sensitive about race — that if she couldn’t take a “few jokes” or racial slurs then she shouldn’t have entered an interracial marriage — I always knew that…
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Black Women and the Hollywood Shuffle
“Now I am an illusion, just like the films. They see me but they can’t recognize me.” —Mignon Duprée (played by Lonette McKee), Illusions, directed by Julie Dash, 1982 Director Julie Dash’s critically acclaimed short film Illusions examines the precarious role that black women play in the Hollywood film industry. In it, black women exist…
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The Plot Thickens: NAACP Retracts Condemnation of Shirley Sherrod's Remarks
This firing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod has more drama than an episode of As the World Turns. Sherrod resigned after a tape surfaced that seemed to show her for making racist remarks about withholding help from a white farmer. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted the clip and Fox News ran it. Sherrod insisted that…
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Whoopi and the Limits of Friendship
Whoopi Goldberg has been engaged in a public battle with fans, bloggers and pundits over her comments about Mel Gibson’s rant heard ’round the world. Tapes of Gibson’s tirades against his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva keep leaking like the BP oil spill and show no signs of stopping. Gibson made a number of abusive and misogynistic…
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