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Is This the End of Weinergate?
Yahoo News is reporting that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has told friends that he will resign from Congress. Multiple news outlets are reporting that Weiner will publicly announce his decision at a press conference Thursday. NBC reported just before the news broke that Weiner’s staff members appeared to be packing up his office this morning. NBC’s…
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Will Obama's Visit to Puerto Rico Make a Difference?
Julianne Hing of ColorLines is reporting that new poll numbers from Latino Decisions show that Latino voters view immigration reform as an issue that is as important as jobs and education. Thus, President Obama has his work cut out for him because of his lack of progress on immigration reform. According to poll results, for…
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Woman Solicits Hitman on Facebook to Kill Child's Father
Gawker.com is reporting that a Philadelphia woman has been arrested for allegedly using Facebook to solicit a hitman to kill the father of her child. ABC 6 reports that police say London Eley, the intended target’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of his 1-year-old daughter, allegedly solicited to have him murdered. According to authorities, Eley posted…
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Man Says He Shot Tupac at Quad Studio
Updated: In an exclusive interview with All Hip Hop, Dexter Isaac says that he shot and robbed rapper-actor Tupac Shakur during the infamous incident at Quad Studio in 1994. The incident in which Shakur was shot multiple times and robbed of jewelry has been played out in the media in multiple ways. Legendary rapper Christopher…
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Shaquille O'Neal at Center of Sex-Tape Crime Scandal
Black America Web is reporting that Shaquille O’Neal is caught in the middle of a criminal case in which seven gang members allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and robbed a man who claimed to have a tape showing O’Neal having sex with other women while he was married to Shaunie O’Neal. Law-enforcement sources tell the website that…
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VIDEO: Minister Farrakhan: 'That's a Murderer in the White House'
A YouTube video of Minister Louis Farrakhan taking President Obama to task over the war in Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya is making its way around the Web. In the video, Farrakhan admonishes the president for turning into someone else. Farrakhan says, “We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a…
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Southern Baptists Elect First African-American Vice President
The Washington Post is reporting that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has chosen an African American to serve as its No. 2 officer in a historic election. The Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Fred Luter to the position of first vice president Tuesday at its annual conference in Phoenix. The 54-year-old Luter has been…
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VIDEO: Allen West: American Men Neutered by 'Liberal Women'
Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) addressed a Women Impacting Nation meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., last week. According to Tanya Somanader of Thinkprogress.com, WIN’s mission is to “educate and equip women with knowledge of God’s truth” and “to support those who take a stand for those Judeo-Christian values upon which our country is…
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Stevie Wonder Inducted Into Apollo Hall of Fame
EURweb is reporting that music legend Stevie Wonder has been inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame. He was honored through the famous theater’s spring gala. Though Wonder was the main attraction, the audience was also wowed as he collaborated with a cast of friends and admirers, including Tony Bennett, Chick Corea, Paul Shaffer…
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Allen West Fires Intern Over Unauthorized Retweet
Neda Semnani of Roll Call is reporting that on Friday afternoon, someone tweeted from Rep. Allen West’s Twitter account: “Very sorry about the unauthorized RT. We were not hacked, an intern made an error. Apologies to all.” The man who famously once said, “Don’t Try to Blow Sunshine Up My Butt,” is giving us the…
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