Supermodel Anok Yai Looked Stunning and Different at Paris Fashion Week
Jasmine Crockett Says What We’ve All Been Thinking About Melania Trump’s U.S. Citizenship
What Police Claimed This Woman Did After Killing Toddler is Just Diabolic
Why Black Folks Were Never Truly ‘Woke,’ Explained
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Let's Just Kill All the Fat Folks
Seriously. They’re just a blight on the landscape of life, literally embodying all that is wrong with these United States of America. At least, that was the gist of Marie Claire blogger Maura Kelly’s Monday-morning rant. She writes the “A Year of Living Flirtatiously” blog for the magazine, and in Monday’s entry, let us all…
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Mariah Carey Confirms Pregnancy
Songstress Mariah Carey has confirmed that she is indeed pregnant. In an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood, she details the path to pregnancy with her husband, Nick Cannon. Carey made the announcement on The Today Show this morning, saying that she is due sometime in the spring. Gossip sites have been speculating that Carey is…
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Washington Attorney General Wants Four Loko Alcoholic Beverage Banned
After an incident in which 50 Central Washington University students got sick from drinking Four Loko alcoholic beverages at a house party, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna said that he wants the Food and Drug Administration to ban the drinks nationwide. Four Loko combines as much alcohol found in a six-pack of beer with…
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'Hotel Rwanda' Hero Accused of Terrorism
Fresh from our “Say it isn’t so” file, Rwandan authorities have accused Paul Rusesabagina — the man who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide, and whose heroic deeds were later depicted in the 2004 Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda — of funding terrorism. Rusesabagina’s actions earned him the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom…
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This Week in Blackness: For Colored Boys (VIDEO)
NOT SAFE FOR WORK (NSFW) This Week in Blackness takes aim at Tea Party candidate Al Reynolds of Illinois, who says that young black men would rather sell drugs than go to college. In a segment titled, “For Colored Boys, Who Of Course Sell Drugs, Because Getting an Education Doesn’t Pay Enough,” TWIB’s Elon James…
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Foreclosures Up in Metro Areas
Yahoo News is reporting that the foreclosure crisis has intensified across a majority of large U.S. metropolitan areas this summer. California, Nevada, Florida and Arizona remain the nation’s foreclosure hotbeds, accounting for 19 of the top 20 metropolitan areas with the highest foreclosure rates between July and September, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.…
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Florida's Elections and the Shifting Terrain of Black Politics
Florida’s Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, now the “independent” U.S. Senate candidate, trails the official Republican candidate, Marco Rubio, by six points, and political forecasters in the state now predict a Rubio victory. Kendrick Meek, the state’s first black Democratic candidate, is given no chance at all. Every poll since Labor Day has him with no…
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Obama Tells Jon Stewart, 'Yes We Can, but … '
Eager to energize youth voters for his party in the 2010 midterm elections next week, President Barack Obama appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Wednesday night. His turn was short on jokes (“You should have held a Rally to Restore Sanity two years ago” was one of his few quips) and…
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Black Serial Killer Creates House of Horrors
In October 2009, the bodies of 11 black women were found in a home owned by alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell. The home is now known as the “Cleveland House of Horrors.” All of the victims had ties to the quiet neighborhood of Mount Pleasant in the eastern part of Cleveland. They were all mothers,…
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Tyler Perry on 'Oprah': Jumping to Conclusions
As I watched Oprah Winfrey’s recent Tyler Perry interview, during which the filmmaker talked about being sexually and physically abused as a child by both men and women, I was listening for something specific. Some girlfriends of mine who had already watched the interview said they believed that Perry practically admitted he was gay right…