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Boris Kodjoe Checks Black Women on Health Issues
Clutch is reporting that heartthrob Boris Kodjoe, former star of NBC’s now defunct Undercovers, has angered some of his followers. His Twitter account lit up after making a recent tweet about having a nightmare about an obese woman. He tweeted: “Like a baby. Had nightmares though about 300 pound women gnawing on chicken wings while…
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March Held to Honor Mississippi Hate Crime Victim
Jorge Rivas of ColorLines is reporting that Mississippi hate crime victim James Craig Anderson was remembered on Sunday during a march in Jackson, Miss. More than 500 people marched to call attention to the murder of the 49-year-old in what authorities say was a racially motivated hate crime. Starting at a nearby church, the march…
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Mega-Church Pastor Tims Found Dead in NYC Hotel
Chris Boyette of CNN is reporting that Florida mega-church founder Zachery Tims was found dead on Friday in a New York City hotel room. Tims was found unresponsive about 6 p.m. Friday on the floor of a room in the W Hotel in Times Square, New York Police Department spokesman Sgt. John Bethorn said. He…
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Did Koch Brothers Bankroll Segregation?
Trymaine Lee of Huffington Post Black Voices outlines the battle involving the Wake County, N.C., school district, which has dismantled its integration policy. The once national model of school integration was sent backward when a new conservative school board took over, filled with Tea Party members who decided to abolish inititiatives to integrate schools along…
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Soccer Player's Father Kidnapped in Nigeria
Fox Sports is reporting that the father of Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has been abducted by unknown men in Nigeria’s restive central region, police said Monday. Plateau state police Commissioner Dipo Ayeni told the Associated Press that Michael Obi disappeared from his home sometime Friday. Ayeni said he had no other details about the…
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David Starkey: 'The Whites Have Become Black'
On BBC’s Newsnight, noted historian David Starkey rips into black culture as the cause of why whites were a part of the recent London riots, saying, “The whites have become black.” In the exchange, which features Starkey, author and scholar Dreda Say Mitchell and Chavs author Owen Jones, Starkey equates black culture with gangsterism. He…
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Summer Camp Behind Bars?
Lisa Flam of MSNBC is reporting that Hope House, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit that works to keep kids connected to their incarcerated fathers, developed the Father to Child Summer Camp to accomplish that goal. Founded in 2000, the camp, which serves inmates from Washington, D.C., is now held at two prisons in Maryland and a…
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World War II Black Veterans Group Disbands
The Washington Post is reporting that Prometheans, Inc., a World War II black veterans group, is disbanding because membership in the organization has declined. Sarah Kahn reports that the veterans — most of them nearing 90 — friends and family members made toasts and speeches at the group’s banquet in Silver Spring, Md. D.C. chapter…
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It's a Great Time to Be Racist
Racists have officially lost their minds. In recent weeks, the venom spewed at President Barack Obama would leave one to believe that we are in the midst of a racist renaissance. “A dick,” “jackass,” “tar baby, “your boy” — you name it and the president has been called it. For some reason, some people are…
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