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Black Critics to Honor Van Peebles, Horne and Ebert
The African-American Film Critics Association will honor director Melvin Van Peebles, the late Lena Horne and film critic Roger Ebert at its second annual awards ceremony in December. The 2010 AAFCA Awards ceremony will take place Dec. 13 at the Ebony Repertory Theater in Los Angeles. Van Peebles is best known for his seminal and…
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How Obama's Civil Rights Policies Are Benefiting Blacks
This is Part 5 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. The history of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is a long one, and it’s inextricably linked to the suffering of African Americans. Founded in…
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Taxpayers Pay $9 Million for Teachers' Cosmetic Surgery in Buffalo
The cold weather in Buffalo, N.Y., must have frozen the brain cells of those in charge of finances. The state-appointed authority overseeing the city’s school finances says that taxpayers paid nearly $9 million in 2009 for city teachers and their dependents to get cosmetic surgery. Officials say teachers and their dependents accounted for 90 percent…
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Kendrick Meek: 'Crist Approached Me About Dropping Out'
In what is sure to become a marathon game of “He said, she said,” Rep. Kendrick Meek, the last-place Democratic candidate running for the Senate from Florida, denied claims that former President Bill Clinton had advised him to drop out, saying the idea came instead from his independent rival, Gov. Charlie Crist. Rep. Meek went…
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I Am My Mother’s Daughter
Happy Birthday, Mom. The Vivian turns 79 today, and I’m fairly certain she’ll party like it’s 1959. To this day, my social life is nowhere near as active as hers, and I doubt it ever will be (but I’m working on it). As long as I can remember, she bowled twice a week with one…
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Mom Kills Baby for Disrupting Facebook Time
Fresh from our “Has the world gone mad?” file, a north Florida mother has pleaded guilty to shaking her baby to death after the boy’s crying interrupted her game on Facebook. Alexandra V. Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday and remains jailed. The Florida Times-Union reports that she told investigators she was angered…
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Halliburton Skipped Essential Test on Gulf Well Cement
Halliburton Co. has admitted that it skipped performing a critical test on the final formulation of cement used to seal the BP oil well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico. The company, which was BP’s cementing contractor, said that at the last minute, BP increased the amount of a critical ingredient in the…
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Bob Johnson Urges African Americans to Support Liberia
When Delta became the first American airline in many years to fly into Liberia last month, billionaire Robert “Bob” Johnson had a prime seat on that plane. That’s because the inaugural flight was part of Johnson’s ongoing effort to spur investment in the formerly war-torn West African nation. Since hearing Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf…