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New York TV Executive Found Guilty of Beheading Wife
You’ve probably heard about the former Survivor executive charged with killing his wife in Mexico. MSNBC is reporting that Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, the founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station, was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the…
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Charles Taylor's Fuming Lawyer Tears Out of Court
The Huffington Post is reporting that former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor’s lawyer Courtenay Griffiths is hopping mad, to such an extent that he tore out of the courtroom on Tuesday after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president’s defense at the end of his landmark war-crimes case. Griffiths ignored judges…
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Black History Month: Rapper Common Embarks on Speaking Tour
EURweb is reporting that rapper Common is remembering the past by embarking on a Black History Month speaking tour. In honor of his past and those who have come before him, he will be traveling across the country to discuss the present and the past. Beginning Feb. 7, 2011, he will make stops in Atlanta,…
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Egypt Reform Continues: Mubarak Forms Committees
The Associated Press is reporting that President Hosni Mubarak’s regime set up a committee Tuesday to recommend constitutional changes that would relax presidential eligibility rules and impose term limits. Mubarak’s decrees were announced on state television by Vice President Omar Suleiman, who also said that Mubarak had announced the creation of a separate committee to…
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Crisis: Federal Judicial Vacancies Dire Situation
The Washington Post is reporting that there is a federal judicial-vacancies crisis. Federal judges have been retiring at a rate of one per week this year, driving up vacancies that have nearly doubled since President Obama took office. Six judges have retired in the past six weeks alone. There has been an exodus of federal…
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Obama: Egypt Will Not Go Back to What It Was
The Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama said Sunday that Egypt is not going to go back to the way it was before pro-democracy protests took over the country, and played down prospects that the Muslim Brotherhood would play a major role in a new government. “I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is…
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AOL to Purchase Huffington Post for $315 Million
NPR is reporting that AOL Inc. has agreed to buy online news hub the Huffington Post for $315 million. The acquisition, announced early Monday, is thought to be a “bold move” by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to reshape AOL’s content. AOL, which has recently purchased popular online tech publications TechCrunch and Endgadget and Mapquest, will…
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Organizations Join Together for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Feb. 7 is the 11th anniversary of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), which is a testing-and-treatment mobilization initiative targeting black communities. The initiative is overseen by the National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Strategic Leadership Council. Each year, community stakeholders plan activities and events to raise awareness about HIV testing. There are five organizations in…
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Shooting at Omega Psi Phi Frat House Leaves Student Dead
The Associated Press is reporting that two men involved in a dispute at an Omega Psi Phi Fraternity house in Youngstown, Ohio, have been arrested. Apparently the two men were angry over a dispute at the fraternity house, left and returned early Sunday, “spraying” bullets into the crowd. Jamail E. Johnson, 25, was killed while…
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ColorLines: Is America's Youth Revolution Coming?
ColorLines’ Kai Wright is wondering aloud if and when America’s youth revolution will come about. The uprisings in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen all have two things in common: youth and joblessness. Wright states: If demographics matter, America’s future will be defined by the fates of Latino and African American young people. Young Latinos…
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