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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Why Are We Killing Ourselves?
This is a question to which I can’t seem to find a logical answer. I’ve got the “how” pretty much all figured out, because doctors and health officials from the U.S. Attorney General on down keep lobbing statistical grenades at us every chance they get. Here’s a sampling of the latest: · Up to 1…
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The New Black Panthers Case Divides Justice Department
On Election Day 2008, Maruse Heath, the leader of Philadelphia’s New Black Panther Party, stood in front of a neighborhood polling place, dressed in a paramilitary uniform. Within hours, an amateur video showing Heath, slapping a black nightstick and exchanging words with the videographer, had aired on TV and ricocheted across the nation. Among those…
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Up in Smoke: Prop 19 Support Is Waning
California’s marijuana-legalization ballot initiative, Proposition 19, is trailing badly, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll, which found likely voters opposing the measure 51 percent to 39 percent. Top candidates for statewide office have opposed the measure. As the Times/USC poll was being conducted last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the…
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U.S. Withdraws 2018 World Cup Bid
The United States has withdrawn its bid to host the 2018 World Cup soccer tournament. The USA Bid Committee will concentrate on trying to land the 2022 tournament. With the U.S. withdrawing, four European candidates now remain in the race for 2018: Belgium/Netherlands, England, Russia and Spain/Portugal. FIFA, the tournament’s governing body, has indicated that…
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The Virtual Examination of Black Relationships Continues
The drama surrounding the representation of black women in virtual vignettes that have gone viral on the Web may give way to brothers. Under the title “Dating the Modern Mid-Twenties Black Man,” which was “inspired by the movies attacking black women in relationships,” a young lady has taken aim at black men. We wonder if…
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Grammy Award-Winning Rapper Eyes Chicago City Council
It looks as if Wyclef Jean has started something. Hip-hop artist Che “RhymeFest” Smith wants to join the Chicago City Council. The 33-year-old rapper, best known for co-writing the Grammy-winning song “Jesus Walks” with his friend Kanye West, announced Thursday that he is running for alderman on the city’s South Side. Smith says he hopes…
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Cholera Outbreak in Haiti Claims Lives
According to MSNBC, at least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak in Haiti. Aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies Friday to combat Haiti’s deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake. Haitian President René Préval confirmed the outbreak of cholera in the quake-hit country’s central region, saying his government was taking…
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Ex-Girlfriend Breaks Silence on Justice Thomas
By Michael A. Fletcher For nearly two decades, Lillian McEwen has been silent — a part of history, yet absent from it. When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his explosive 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Thomas vehemently denied the allegations and his handlers cited his steady relationship with another woman in…
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Orange County Candidate Accuses Opponent of Starting 'Race War'
Orange County, Calif., Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who took to Univision last month to warn Latino voters that “the Vietnamese and Republicans” were coming after a Latino seat, has stirred up lots of emotions. Sanchez has called Van Tran, her Vietnamese Republican opponent, anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic in an attempt to galvanize Hispanic voters to help…