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Why Cornel West Is Wrong to Call Prisoners 'Precious'
Gregory Kane, writing at BlackAmericaWeb.com, says it’s impossible to decipher professor Cornel West’s latest rant — that black male prisoners are “precious” — because the argument is fundamentally flawed. Kane lists victims of some of those “precious” incarcerated men. This column will be about West and the “p” word: precious. Before [Cornel] West’s rant, I…
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Raven-Symoné Comes Out on Twitter
(The Root) — Rumors have long swirled about actress Raven-Symoné’s sexual orientation. Today she put those rumors to rest with a single tweet supporting marriage equality. Gossip sites had whispered and speculated about whom she might be dating — a couple of years ago, she was linked to America’s Next Top Model contestant AzMarie. But…
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Rangel Hits Tea Partiers, Calls Them 'White Crackers'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Beast published on Friday, 83-year-old Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) railed against the Tea Party, likening members to whites in the South who fought to preserve segregation during the civil rights movement. He also hit Republicans, accusing the party of sabotaging American competitiveness. There is little question that Rangel is nearing…
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New Jersey's Poor Living in Tent Cities
Tent cities have sprung up in Camden, N.J., one of the poorest cities in the nation, and other parts of the state as residents struggle to make ends meet, according to My9NJ. A chef at a nearby kitchen that feeds the poor in Camden told My9NJ that some of the people have lost their jobs…
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Woman Sentenced for Facebook Murder
Twenty-year-old Kayla Henriques of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing her friend, 22-year-old Kamisha Richards, to death. The two had been arguing over $20 that Richards lent Henriques. The argument spilled over into text messages and onto Facebook, and in February 2011, things got physical. Henriques said in her confession…
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YouTube Star Blasted for Stealing Late Comic's Material
(The Root) — Between his YouTube and Twitter pages (@hotdamnirock on each), Kain Carter has hundreds of thousands of fans and followers. Too bad the material used to win them all was stolen from the late comic Patrice O’Neal. People on Twitter caught wind of Carter’s fraud via this YouTube video making the rounds on…
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Black Unemployment: Obama Seeing Results
(The Root) — The latest jobs numbers brought some good news not only for the Obama administration but also for the black community. After steadily rising since April of this year, African-American unemployment finally decreased in July from 13.7 percent to 12.6 percent. While that is still nearly double the number of unemployed in the…
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Is Black Official a Victim of NC's Abortion Law?
(The Root) — The abrupt resignation of a high-ranking African-American official in North Carolina has led to speculation that she is a casualty of the state’s increasingly contentious war over reproductive rights. Dr. Laura Gerald was state health director for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, making her the state’s most senior…
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How Do I Research My Gullah Heritage?
(The Root) — “I have an insatiable appetite for history and so does my father. He was born on Cherokee Plantation in Yemassee, S.C. (the Lowcountry), and that area still has a very rich Gullah heritage. “I have been able to go back to the 1880 census, but a lot of records in South Carolina…
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Hacker Prompts Colin Powell to Deny Affair
Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell has released a strong statement of denial after a hacker known as Guccifer threatened to distribute “very personal” emails sent to him by a female Romanian diplomat, the Smoking Gun reports. In a statement addressing his relationship with Corina Cretu, a member of the European Parliament who previously held a…
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