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Jonathan Martin Out for the Season
Miami Dolphins’ Jonathan Martin on Saturday was placed on the non-football-injury list, amid a simmering scandal involving teammate Richie Incognito, the Miami Herald reports. That essentially writes him off for the rest of the season. The move comes nearly a month after Martin, the team’s starting right tackle, garnered national headlines with explosive charges of…
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Tyrese, Ludacris and Others Mourn Paul Walker
Celebs took to Twitter and Instagram yesterday when the tragic news broke that actor Paul Walker was killed in a car accident in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Saturday afternoon. He was 40 years old. The Fast & Furious actor was returning from a charity event in a friend’s Porsche Carrera GT, when the vehicle hit a…
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Michael Jordan to Become a Dad Again at 50
Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan is going to be a father again, according to celebrity magazine US Weekly. A due date was not reported. Jordan, 50, and Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, 34, married in April after a five-year courtship. This is their first child, and they live near Miami. Jordan has three adult children…
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Clintons Rebuild Bonds With Black Voters
Since Hillary R. Clinton left the secretary of state post in February, she and her husband have been quietly working to improve their relationship with African-American voters, after it endured hardship during her first run for president, the New York Times reports. The effort comes five years after Bill Clinton inflamed tensions and created deep…
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Fast & Furious Star Paul Walker Mourned
Paul Walker, star of the wildly popular Fast & Furious films, died Saturday in a fiery crash in Southern California. He was 40 years old. His publicist, Ame van Iden, confirmed his death, but would not elaborate beyond statements posted on Walker’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts. He was a passenger in a friend’s 2005 Porsche Carrera GT,…
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6 Ways Obamacare Can Help End America’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic
With politicians, public health experts and epidemiologists announcing that the United States is at the beginning of ending the AIDS epidemic and that we will soon usher in an AIDS-free generation of youths, each World AIDS Day, on Dec. 1, takes on increasingly special significance, especially for African Americans. Because the nation’s HIV/AIDS epidemic is…
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Quote of the Day: Shirley Chisholm on Gender
Read how the quote is referenced 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 editor-in-chief ofThe Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Poll: Americans Do Not Trust Each Other
Have you ever felt a twinge of mistrust as you handed your credit card to a restaurant server? How about the grocery clerk? No worries. They probably feel the same about you. A new poll shows that Americans’ trust in each other has been on the decline for about four decades, the Associated Press reports.…
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White House: HealthCare.gov on Track to Meet Deadline
White House officials plan to announce Sunday that improvements to HealthCare.gov were in place by Saturday’s deadline, the Washington Post reports. The upgrade was completed about 4 a.m. Saturday, the Post says, quoting a government official familiar with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe details that the administration was not…
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Wal-Mart: Arrests Made in Black Friday Wage Protests
Dozens of protesters were arrested at demonstrations around the country on Black Friday as some workers and their supporters tried to shine the spotlight on low wages at the world’s largest retailer, NBC News reports. The protesters want Wal-Mart to raise wages by 42 percent from $8.81 an hour to $12.50 an hour, which would…
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