Mother Allegedly Bashes Her 6-Year-Old Daughter’s Head in with Hammer, But How She Involves Her Son is Truly Chilling
How This Mother’s Testimony Might Have Just Landed Her Own Son a Murder Case
Philly Cops Allegedly Tased This Black Man for This?!
How ‘Unwoke’ Black America Thought They Had it Made But Played Into the Far Right’s Decades-Long Master Plan to Elevate a Figure Like Trump
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Court Stops Gay Marriages Indefinitely in California
Sex-same couples in the Golden State will have to wait until at least December 6, 2010, to even think about marrying. A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely while it considers the constitutionality of the state’s gay-marriage ban. The decision was issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S.…
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Black Britain Makes Political Gains in an Economic Crisis
While the world focused its attention on the political cliffhanger in May that led to Great Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, the U.K.’s minorities were making significant gains in national representation. A record turnout of minority voters in the closely contested race doubled the number of black, Asian (in the U.K., “Asian” usually…
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Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Dies
Jazz photographer Herman Leonard has passed away. Leonard is considered to be one of the great midcentury jazz-scene photographers, capturing Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis during their heyday. The Smithsonian Institution has 130 of Leonard’s photos in its permanent collection. He lived in New Orleans until Hurricane…
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Around The World in Black Greekdom II
If it’s Monday, it must be time for the weekly Divine Nine news roundup! Remember to come through each week to see the great, the good, and the…uh…not so good happenings within the Divine Nine. Over in Charlotte, the Alphas decided to invite a Tea Party leader to a forum as part of their Political…
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The Week in Obama for August 16
It’s a week of campaign stops for Barack. President Obama began this week with a visit to ZBB Energy Corp., in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, where he touted the benefits of clean energy. “For years, we’ve heard about manufacturing jobs disappearing overseas. Companies like this one are showing us how manufacturing jobs can come back,” Obama…
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Let's Make a Deal on the N-Word
It’s a delicate business to declare a racial slur taboo. Today a non-black person calling a black one the n-word is treated as morally equivalent to photos of naked children being discovered in one’s desk drawer. Yet all societies have taboos, and the way we now treat the n-word is, in broad view, merely a…
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Open Letter Urges France's President to Pay Haiti's 'Independence Debt'
International scholars, journalists and cultural critics have come together to present France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy with an open letter asking France to pay Haiti’s “independence debt” to help the country recover from the devastation of the earthquake. The debt was imposed on Haiti nearly 200 years ago after it won its independence and became the first…
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Jimi Hendrix Items on Display at His Former London Home
Jimi Hendrix lives on through his music and belongings, which are on display at his former house in London. Hendrix, who died of a drug overdose 40 years ago, was known for his unparalleled musical abilities, particularly as a guitarist, and his fashion style and cool aesthetic. The guitarist lived in an apartment in London’s Mayfair…