Diddy’s Daughters’ Tearful Exit From Trial Ignites Black America’s Outcry
Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
A White Waitress at a St. Louis Restaurant Calls a Black Woman Customer the B-Word on Video, and It Only Gets Worse From There…
Mama Duke Just Dropped Another Banger and Fans Say It’s As Good As Her ‘America’s Got Talent’ Hit
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How Some Fresh Blood Can Fix Obama's Problems
Watching the midterm elections last week was like eating dog food. Having to listen to newly elected congressman Rand Paul declare, “There are no rich, there are no middle class, there are no poor,” made me want to throw up all over my health-insurance bills. Florida’s Marco Rubio stole all of President Barack Obama’s youthful…
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NPR: Should the NCAA Rethink Its Stance on Paying Athletes?
Excerpt (Frank Deford): A desperately favorite NCAA punishment is to require the offending college to forfeit the games it won sometime in its dark past. Oh, that smarts. That really scares cheaters. Changing old record books is like telling you that the vacation you had in Jamaica four years ago, when you were drinking rum,…
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CEO Charged With Sex With Child Prostitute
The CEO of an Atlanta-based data-security company was charged after police said he paid for sex with a child prostitute. The victim was only 12- years-old when she was “pimped out” to Reflex Security CEO Peter Privateer in early March 2008, according to a Gwinnett County police report. The victim said she was taken to…
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Father Sues School District Over Readings About Slavery
Black America Web is reporting that the father of a black student has sued a Detroit-area school district, claiming that his daughter was racially harassed by a fifth-grade teacher’s reading aloud from a book about slavery. The suit claims that Jala Petree’s teacher at Margaret Black Elementary School in Sterling Heights read excerpts from Julius…
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Prop 107: Arizona's Right-Wing Assault Continues
Last week, Arizona voters passed Proposition 107, which outlawed the use of affirmative action in state hiring and admissions processes, by a 60-40 margin. The state that brought us SB 1070, the harshest anti-immigrant piece of legislation to come down in recent memory; and HB 2281, the state’s new ethnic-studies ban, reminds everyone that if…
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Lawsuit Filed Against Murrah Coach Caught 'Whipping' Players on Camera
Fresh from our “Lawd, Jesus” file, a lawsuit has been filed against Jackson Public Schools in Mississippi on behalf of three Murrah High basketball players who say they were physically and verbally abused by coach Marlon Dorsey. Coach Dorsey has admitted to “whipping” students, although corporal punishment has been banned in Jackson schools since 1991.…
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Reviving Obama
As he ponders the “shellacking” the Democratic Party took in last Tuesday’s elections, President Obama should begin the second half of his term by overcoming his aversion to dealing with the bad things of the past. Remember, he rejected calls for investigations into possible wrongdoing by Bush administration officials, insisting that, instead, he preferred to…
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Michelle Obama Surprises Troops in Germany on Veterans Day
First Lady Michelle Obama surprised a group of U.S. servicemen and women based in Germany on Thursday, helping to serve them steaks at a special Veterans Day meal. The first lady spent time with some 200 troops during a refueling stopover on the way home from her tour of Asia with President Barack Obama. After…
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Why Are There So Many Errors in The Anthology of Rap?
Written by Paul Devlin Last Thursday, I wrote an article for Slate about The Anthology of Rap, officially published this week by the Yale University Press. In that piece, I pointed out the errors I’d found in reading the book’s transcriptions of rap lyrics. (I also noted how tricky and difficult such transcription can be.)…
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Pedophile Advice Book Stirs Controversy
The latest controversy burning up the Internet is the availability of Phillip Greaves’ book, The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure, which he self-published and was available on Amazon. No, we are not making this up, and yes, you could have gotten it through your Kindle. Customers went crazy and threatened to boycott Amazon unless…