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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Ethiopian Jazz: Thrilling Music That You Should Hear
During the second half of the 20th century, cosmopolitan Ethiopians were delighted to see jazz giant Duke Ellington receive their country’s Medal of Honor from Emperor Haile Selassie. At the same time, by contrast, a Berklee College of Music-trained Ethiopian jazz legend, Mulatu Astatke, who fused jazz and funk with his country’s folk and Coptic…
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The Tea Party's Image Problem
Throughout 2009 and into the early part of 2010, the Tea Party movement was beginning to prove itself as an electoral force. Election Day results last fall and throughout the primary process this year demonstrated that the party’s collective energy and activism were enough to push its preferred candidates past their establishment counterparts to win…
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Reggie Bush Apologizes to USC's New Athletic Director
Reggie Bush has finally done the right thing — admitted wrongdoing and apologized to the new athletic director at the University of Southern California. Pat Haden, USC’s new athletic director, said that Bush was “contrite,” and apologized profusely. Hayden says Bush told him, “If I could turn the clock back, I would. If I could give…
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Houston Man Wrongly Convicted of Rape Must Make a Hard Choice
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place: Michael A. Green, who was wrongly convicted of a rape he did not commit and spent 27 years of his life behind bars, must now make a difficult decision. Exonerated by DNA evidence, Green can accept a $2.2 million compensation payment from the state…
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10 Random Racial Slip-Ups by Radio Show Hosts
No stranger to controversy, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, left, reacquainted herself on August 10, 2010, when she spit out the n-word 11 times while speaking to a black caller. The next day, she apologized on her Web site and read the apology on air. “I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the…
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Weight-Loss Hypnotist Coming to Town. Tempting . . .
I’ve actually signed up because I am deathly curious. I opted for the pay-at-the-door option, because of the very good chance I won’t show up. Part of me wants to believe there’d be some benefit, but I am the most skeptical person I know, and there are many other uses for the $60 cost for…
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The Blogosphere Reacts to Laura Schlessinger's N-venture
She has lost her damn mind! —Facebook user I love is that she did it in the context of telling this woman that she shouldn’t be so sensitive about race — that if she couldn’t take a “few jokes” or racial slurs then she shouldn’t have entered an interracial marriage — I always knew that…
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What Dr. Laura Said Wasn't Racist
So here we go again — another tedious descent into the “n-word” hole. This latest ride is courtesy of radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who, while speaking with a black female caller about problems in the woman’s interracial marriage on Tuesday, said the following: CALLER: How about the n-word? So, the n-word’s been thrown around…
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Are They Really 'Rapin' Everybody Out Here'?
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you know who Antoine Dodson is. He became an overnight cyber star thanks to an interview he and his sister Kelly gave to an Alabama NBC news affiliate. With a red bandanna on his head, chomping on gum, Antoine, who is…