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Egypt Crisis Intensifies
Conditions in Egypt continue to unravel, with at least 45 people across the country dead in related violence since Friday, according to health-ministry officials. President Hosni Mubarak’s desperate attempt to hold on to power by firing his cabinet — but not himself — didn’t cut it with the thousands of protesters who have flooded the streets of…
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Bird Like Me: 'Daily Show' Profiles Neglected Black Town
The historically black town of Turkey Creek, Miss., had been devastated over the years by waste dumping, land grabs and, more recently, Hurricane Katrina. To add insult to injury, a housing complex had been built atop one of their graveyards. None of this sounds funny, but what would make you laugh to keep from crying…
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Colin Powell on Obama: We Didn't Elect Superman
When asked to rate the progress made by President Barack Obama two years into his term of office, retired General Colin Powell said this Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union: “He’s got a way to go. I mean he hasn’t achieved all of his purposes, but he’s stabilized the economy. … Whether you approve…
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On 'Weekly With Ed Gordon': The Killing of DJ Henry
Danroy “DJ” Henry Jr. was a 20-year-old Pace University football player who was shot dead by police outside a New York State bar last October. Tonight at 11 p.m., BET’s Weekly With Ed Gordon is looking at the case through firsthand accounts of his parents, Danroy and Angela Henry; key eyewitness and shooting survivor Brandon…
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Philly Abortion Doctor Jailed Under Horrific Charges
This news is not for the faint of heart: Philadelphia police say that 69-year-old Dr. Kermit Gosnell has been running an illegal late-term abortion house of horrors, one in which fetuses born alive after six to eight months of gestation had their spinal cords fatally cut by scissors, and one patient died from an anesthetic…
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Santorum Brings Obama's Race Into Abortion Debate
Few things are more infuriating than when people lecture African Americans on where we should fall on rights-related issues because we’ve been oppressed and ought to know better — as if we owe a debt for our freedom that can only be repaid by signing on to their point of view, without going through the…
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Carlina White: Kidnapped Baby Comes Home 23 Years Later
I remember this case from the ’80s, of the child who was kidnapped from Harlem Hospital, but it’s amazing that it went unsolved all these years, until the victim herself solved it. Her entire childhood was spent being raised by her abductor in what she describes as an abusive environment. Carlina White, when only 19…
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'Kiss My Butt' Governor Attends Alternate MLK Day Event
Clearly, a return to civility (or even decency) in politics won’t start with Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage. After telling the NAACP to “kiss my butt” and refusing to attend their event in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage attended a different MLK celebration. LePage appeared at a breakfast…
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Find Out How FLOTUS Spent Her Birthday
First lady Michelle Obama spent part of her 47th birthday surrounded by her family and the students of Stuart Hobson Middle School in Washington, D.C. Around 11:15 a.m., President Obama, Mrs. Obama, Malia and Sasha entered the school cafeteria and were greeted by a chorus of “Happy Birthday.” Mrs. Obama’s response, according to the pool report: “All right let’s…
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Obama: Gabby Opened Her Eyes for the First Time
There was an unscripted surprise during President Barack Obama’s much anticipated speech at a memorial service for the victims of the mass shooting in Tucson. The president revealed that not long after the he and the first lady had visited wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital, “Gabby opened her eyes for the first time.” Met with thunderous…
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