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Obama, Bush 41 Team Up in Service Initiative
41 + 44 = A national call to service. President Obama has teamed with George H.W. Bush to push volunteerism across the nation. From the AP: Bush on Friday was to host a forum on volunteering at Texas A&M University, to be attended by Obama, who initiated a “United We Serve” call to service in…
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Gallup Poll Finds Hillary More Popular Than Barack
Is that the sound of vultures circling? In a recently released poll, Gallup found Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s approval rating to be at 62% while President Barack Obama’s is at 56%. The latter figure is favorable for a president, though for Obama it signals a 22% drop since January. From Gallup: The results are…
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Michelle Obama Knows Healthy Eating Isn't Just About Healthy Eating
There’s a smart debate going around the internet on food policy, the pleasure principle, and the role that first lady Michelle Obama can play in curbing the obesity epidemic that has swept the United States in recent decades. Obama made a big speech addressing the matter at the Department of Health and Human Services this…
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King Kids Settle Lawsuit Over Estate
The King kids are playing nice (for now) over their family’s estate. From the AP: Martin Luther King III, Bernice King and Dexter King had aired their grievances in open court for more than a year. The siblings began negotiations Monday morning as the threat loomed of a civil trial that was expected to reveal…
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Owner of D.C.'s Famous Ben's Chili Bowl Dies at 82.
“He lived a full life and put a lot into the business,” says one member of the family. Ben Ali, the man who put the Ben in Ben’s Chili Bowl, died Wednesday night at the age of 82. He and his wife of 50 years, Virginia, established Ben’s Chili Bowl in 1958 on the U…
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10 Kinda Fun Facts About 'The Cosby Show'
Think you know everything about The Cosby Show? As the show celebrates its 25th anniversary, here are some facts you may find surprising: 1. Phylicia Rashad is only 10 years older than Sabrina Le Beauf, who played her daughter, Sondra. 2. Speaking of Sondra, a 21-year-old Whitney Houston was in the early running for the…
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MySpace to Facebook = White Flight?
MySpace is no longer cool. As a matter of fact, its number of users is now one-half the size of rival Facebook. Is this because MySpace is too black for the rest of America? Teenage Internet users may hold the answer. High-schoolers report their use of the social-networking giants along racial lines—MySpace is seen as…
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What Birthers Believe: Republicans in a 9/12 America
On the heels of Friday’s remembrance of the September 11th attacks on the United States, a throng of conservative Americans gathered for a “9/12” rally on the national mall in Washington this weekend. There is a decent bit of controversy over crowd size—estimated between 60,000 and over 1 million—but the tone of the protest, a…
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Michael Jackson's Birthday Bash!
UPDATE: Click here for the flyer and information about the 2010 bash! You could say that Spike Lee always had a special connection to Michael Jackson: They were born a year apart, both to musical families. Back in the day, every Saturday morning, Lee, like many other black kids across the country, sat down in…
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