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Ice-T Makes Tasteless Twitter Joke
The Huffington Post is reporting that rapper Ice-T is under fire for a joke he made on Twitter about the recent suicide of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstong’s husband, Russell. The Armstrong’s tense and fragile marriage was featured prominently on the show. Russell had recently moved out of the couple’s sprawling estate…
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VIDEO: Waters Addresses CBC Reluctance to Criticize Obama
A video featuring California Rep. Maxine Waters is making its way around the Internet. The video, which was shot in Detroit, the second stop of the Congressional Black Caucus’ jobs tour, demonstrates the precarious balance for elected officials seeking to support the president while critiquing his performance on jobs. Waters candidly admits that many Obama…
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Black Colleges Actively Recruiting Nonblack Students
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that historically black colleges and universities are actively recruiting nonblack students. Sue Shellenbarger reports that many of the nation’s 105 historically black colleges are increasingly wooing nonblack students, in what has become a mutually beneficial relationship for schools and students. The goals: to boost lagging enrollment and offset funding…
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Florida Police Stop Mass-Murder Plot by Student
Peter Fulham of Slate is reporting that Florida police said on Tuesday that they had foiled a potentially “catastrophic” mass-murder plot by an expelled student in a Tampa school district. Police arrested the suspect, Jared Cano, 17, after receiving a tip from a Florida resident about a possible plan by Cano to set off explosives…
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Sheriff Won't Seek Charges Against Rapper 'the Game'
Yahoo News is reporting that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it will not seek criminal charges against rapper Jayceon “the Game” Taylor after a tweet from the rapper’s account incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system at a sheriff’s station. The Associated Press reports in a statement Wednesday that…
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BART Brought to Halt by Police-Brutality Protest
Fresh from our “Is this China or Egypt?” file, Jorge Rivas of ColorLines is reporting that the BART train system came to a halt at its four busiest stations during rush hour Monday as demonstrators protested a decision by agency officials last week to cut underground cellphone service in an effort to stifle an earlier…
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Chiwetel Ejiofor to Star in 'Twelve Years a Slave'
EURweb is reporting that British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor has signed on to topline an adaptation of Twelve Years a Slave, an autobiography written in 1853 by Solomon Northup, a free black man who became enslaved. Brad Pitt and his Plan B banner are producing, while Steve McQueen, who co-wrote the script with John Ridley, is…
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Prosecutors May Drop Charges Against DSK
Geraldine Baum of the Los Angeles Times is reporting that in a week, Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be a free man. New York prosecutors are expected to tell a Manhattan judge next Tuesday whether they want to proceed with a criminal trial against the 62-year-old French financier accused of trying to rape a housekeeper in his…
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