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Good Job Stepping Aside, Susan Rice
As Chuck Hagel endures the grueling confirmation process for the defense secretary position, BET.com David Swerdlick writes that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice was actually shrewd in withdrawing from the process completely. Hagel will still likely be confirmed, but his lackluster testimony may have exposed him as having been out of politics…
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Kerry Washington Rules NAACP Image Awards
Kerry Washington doesn’t just rule Thursday-night television as Olivia Pope on Scandal; the actress and activist made the NAACP Image Awards hers on Friday night as well. Washington took home three awards for her thespian efforts as well as her work off-camera, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The star of ABC’s “Scandal” picked up a…
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Secret Service Head to Announce Retirement
After a 30-year career with the Secret Service, Director Mark Sullivan is expected to announce his retirement soon, reports NBC News. Sullivan has served as director since 2006 during the Bush administration. The agency found itself in the middle of a controversy after a prostitution scandal during President Obama’s trip to Colombia in April 2012.…
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Malala Yousufzai Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
When teenager Malala Yousufzai was shot for speaking against the Taliban last year, her struggle did not go unnoticed. Now she may become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, reports NBC News. Her name was put forward by three members of the Norwegian parliament from the ruling Labor Party on their…
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University of Southern Miss Nears Hire of First Black President
The University of Southern Mississippi is on the verge of creating history by possibly hiring Rodney Bennett as their first black president, reports USA Today. It’s a fact not lost on Southern Miss interim President Aubrey K. Lucas, whose service to the school dates to a period when black students were not even admitted to…
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President Obama Shown Skeet Shooting
Similar to his response to the birther controversy, President Barack Obama put rumors to rest on Saturday when the White House released an image of the POTUS skeet shooting at Camp David, reports USA Today. White House Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer tweeted out this picture on Saturday morning after much skepticism about the President’s claim…
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Turkish Group Claims US Embassy Bombing
As many said goodbye to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, was attacked. On Saturday a leftist Turkish group, according to Reuters, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, blaming their motivations on America’s foreign policy. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C) said it carried out Friday’s attack,…
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The GOP Is Stuck on 'Stupid'
(The Root) — We recently heard former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and current Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, both Republicans, use the word “stupid” in reference to their own party. Although they had in mind comments about rape and pregnancy like those made by losing GOP senatorial candidate Todd Akin, the problem, to me, goes much…
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Does Black History Month Represent All Blacks?
Writing in Time magazine, Christina Greer wonders where foreign-born black Americans fit into the annual February celebration. The origins of this month began in 1926 when historian Carter G. Woodson (and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History) announced the second week of February to be “Negro History Week.”… At the time, less…
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The Bond Between Civil Rights' First Wives
(The Root) — Like most people, Mary J. Blige had some knowledge of Malcolm X but knew very little about his widow, Betty Shabazz. So after business partner and friend Polly Anthony brought her a movie script about the friendship Shabazz shared with another famous widow — Coretta Scott King — Blige found herself not…
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