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Seattle Seahawks Crush Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl
So much for Peyton Manning’s record-breaking season and the Denver Broncos intimidating offense. Super Bowl XLVIII was all about the Seattle Seahawks defense. Overpowering, dominating, lightening fast. And ultimately victorious. The Seahawks led the Super Bowl from start to finish, running up a 22 to nothing lead by halftime. It was the relentless Seattle defense…
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Obama Blames Fox News for Stirring Up Political Trouble
Each year the news division of the network hosting the Super Bowl is granted a pregame interview with President Obama. This year was Fox’s turn, and Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly used the occasion to grill the president on a few of the conservative’s favorite topics, including Benghazi and the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups.…
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Labor Unions Accuse Obama of Betrayal in Health Care Rollout
Labor leaders who have spent months pushing for concessions under the Affordable Care Act signaled last week that the White House’s refusal to help is reducing union support for Democratic candidates in upcoming midterm elections, the Washington Post reports. Unite Here, one of the first unions to endorse Barack Obama in 2008, and others complain…
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Open Letter Defending the NAACP From Insults and Attacks
A recent article in The Root written by Jeff Johnson made a publicly scathing criticism of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Johnson’s column, pejoratively titled “An Open Letter to Those Who Still Believe in the NAACP” is a foolish and bewildering attack on one of the largest and longest lasting civil…
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White Cop Fired After Hacking Off Woman’s Weave
A white police officer from suburban Detroit is out of a job after she was caught on tape violently hacking off a young hairdresser’s weave during an arrest in November, the Daily News reports. Bernadette Najor was fired from the Warren Police Department in Warren, Mich., after the incident, the News says. Najor reportedly had…
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Wal-Mart Too Expensive for Food Stamp Recipients
Wal-Mart lowered its fourth-quarter profit expectations, the New York Times reports, citing cuts to food stamps and an especially harsh winter. Charles M. Holley Jr., the company’s chief financial officer, said that despite a fairly decent holiday season, the impact from reductions to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food-stamps program, was “greater than…
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‘A Change Is Gonna Come’: Why Sam Cooke Worried About Singing It
Singer Sam Cooke wrote one of the most profound songs of the 1960s, but it wasn’t an easy decision for him, NPR’s Arun Rath reports. Rolling Stone now calls “A Change Is Gonna Come” one of the greatest songs of all time, but in 1964 its political message was a risky maneuver. Cooke had worked hard…
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Tennessee Waitress Receives $1,075 Tip
When Khadijah Muhammad showed up for her waitress job at Cheddar’s restaurant in Knoxville, Tenn., on Jan. 23, her electricity was going to be shut off, but she focused on serving her clients, the Daily News reports. So it seemed like a miracle when an unidentified family left a tip of $1,075 for a meal…
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Quote of the Day: Bessie Delany on Truth
You can read this quote from the book Having Our Say, and other quotes from Bessie Delany, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the…
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Renowned Visual Artist Synthia Saint James Featured at Harlem Fine Arts Show
The Harlem Fine Arts Show is in its fifth year, and it is visual artist Synthia Saint James’ first time showing at the annual event. “This was the first opportunity I had a chance to do so,” Saint James said from her Los Angeles home during a phone interview with HFAS. “I really wished that…
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