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African Girls Held as Slaves in New Jersey
It’s hard to believe that there would be enslaved Africans in America in the 21st century, but in one case, they were working in plain sight as hair braiders in Newark, N.J. If you’ve ever had the feeling that the price you paid for your microbraid extensions was “a steal,” be warned: It very well…
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VIDEO: Surprise! Obama's in Afghanistan
Perhaps needing a break from his battles with Republicans, President Barack Obama dropped in on the troops in Afghanistan today. “You will succeed in your mission,” he told more than 3,500 cheering troops in a huge airplane hangar at Bagram Air Field. “We said we were going to break the Taliban’s momentum. That’s what you’re…
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Couple Hid 5 Kids From Society
In June 1993, 16-year-old Louann Bowers was reported missing from her home in East Berlin, Pa. Her family declared Bowers legally dead in 2004, not knowing that she was in fact alive and raising a secret family of five children in York, Pa., with her uncle by marriage, Sinhue Johnson. Now Bowers and Johnson face child-endangerment charges…
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Haitian Candidates Allege Widespread Election Fraud
Today’s presidential and parlimentiary elections in Haiti are in jeopardy as major candidates allege widespread voting fraud. The front-runner, Mirlande Manigat, has even called for the elections to be canceled. With international-aid donors hoping to give the billions they’ve pledged for post-earthquake reconstruction to a new democratically elected administration, the stakes couldn’t be higher. The front-runner in Haiti’s…
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Fire Hits Mosque Where Terror Suspect Worshipped
Whoever decided to set fire to a mosque once frequented by Somali-born teen terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud is trapped in the same mind-set as he is. Terrorism is terrorism. Anger on Sunday over a Somali-born teen’s failed plan to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony apparently erupted in arson on…
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California Man: 'I Will Kill the President'
A California man was indicted on Wednesday for writing a letter in which he threatened to kill President Barack Obama. Apparently Roger Hudnall has a thing for writing threatening letters to the government. A Humboldt County man who served time in prison for mailing a phony anthrax letter to the FBI was indicted Wednesday by…
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Yoga Has a Racial Divide, Says Clutch
It’s no surprise that, Russell Simmons’ obsession aside, yoga isn’t wildly popular in the black community. As Clutch magazine points out, a mixture of misperceptions among blacks and subtle bias among its mostly white and upscale adherents here in the U.S. might be to blame. Yoga is simply a form of exercise meant to promote physical and…
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Charles Blow: Data Show GOP Has a 'Blasé Mandate'
Despite the GOP’s dramatic gains during the congressional midterm elections, Americans aren’t all that thrilled about the shift in power, writes New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. A poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center found that people are considerably less happy about the Republicans’ victory than they were about the Democrats’ victory…
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Obama: Won't Cave In on Ending Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Today President Barack Obama said recent reports that he’s about to cave in to Republican tax-cut demands are incorrect. Either Huffington Post got it wrong or he really needs to rein in David Axelrod. In any case, perhaps liberals can breathe a rare sigh of relief. President Barack Obama declared Friday that his “number one…
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MJ's Mom on Beatings: That's How Blacks Raised Kids
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired today, Joe Jackson finally admitted that he beat his son Michael and other members of the famous Jackson brood. After denying it at the beginning of the interview, Joe said he’d done it and that it was the right thing to do. “It kept them out of…
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