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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Judge Presses Pause on Gay Marriages in California
Pump your brakes — gay marriages can’t actually take place for a few more days. A federal judge on Thursday put gay marriages on hold for at least another six days in California but kept hopes high among same-sex couples that they soon will be able to tie the knot after years of delays. Judge Vaughn…
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Iranian Woman Confesses on TV to Avoid Stoning Death
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old Iranian woman facing execution by stoning for adultery, confessed on state TV to infidelity and helping her supposed lover kill her husband. In an interview broadcast today, Ashtiani also skewered her lawyer for publicizing the case and bringing shame on her family. Ashtiani’s lawyer, who was granted refuge in Norway, told…
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Teen Jobless Rate Hits 26 Percent
What has the world come to when a teenager can’t find a summer job? 2010 is looking like 1940, because the jobless rate for teenagers hasn’t been this bleak since then. The teen jobless rate is at 26 percent, which has made for a lean summer. July is typically the height of the employment season…
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Eat Pray Love: A Woman's Road Movie
At heart, Eat Pray Love, based on the outrageously successful, Oprah-anointed best-seller, is a travelogue, an inner road movie where the heroine travels from point A (depressed, self-absorbed, unlucky in love) to point B (happy, semi-self-absorbed, lucky in love). And as such, it’s hard to turn that into compelling filmmaking. (Except, perhaps, for the lucky-in-love…
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How A Non-Gangsta Enjoys Gangsta Rap
Every morning for the past month, as I start getting dressed, I have sung (or is it rapped?) the hook to a song entitled, “BMF (Blowin’ Money Fast)” by rapper, Rick Ross. It goes: I think I’m Big Meech, Larry Hoover Getting work Hallejuah One nation Under God real [expletive] gettin money from the [expetive]…
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It's Hot, We're Broke, No Job, Bills Are Due, and We’re Supposed to Eat Salad?
My friend is a ball of stress and frayed nerves. She’s had trouble sleeping for three weeks, is unemployed and has applied for at least 20 positions in the past month. Highly qualified for many positions, she’s been passed over because younger, cheaper workers are plentiful, even if they lack the skills listed in the…
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African-American Couples Are More Likely to Share Religious Beliefs
Finally, some good news about African-American relationships. Black couples are more likely than others to share core religious beliefs. Thus they are more likely to pray together, which is a factor that has been linked to greater happiness in marriages and relationships, according to a recent study released by the Journal of Marriage and Family. The…
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A 'Person of Interest' Arrested in Flint Stabbing Spree
A “person of interest” linked to the three-state knife attacks that killed five people in Michigan has been taken into custody, authorities said today. Media reports said he was arrested at Atlanta’s airport as he tried to fly to Israel. He is currently being held on unrelated charges. Unrelated? Authorities aren’t using the “charge first…
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Shun Charlie Rangel? Not in a New York Minute
If you wanted proof of Charlie Rangel’s extraordinary clout in his hometown, go no further than the Grand Ballroom of New York’s Plaza Hotel on Wednesday night. The congressman’s 80th-birthday party is his traditional campaign fundraiser, and there was speculation for weeks in the media that politicians would stay away in droves to avoid the…
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8-Year-Old Girl in Chicago Gunned Down While Jumping Rope
Tanaja Stokes, 8, was gunned down while jumping rope in the Chicago neighborhood of Roseland. While she was jumping rope with friends, two gunmen on bicycles rode up and open-fired. Chicago is in the midst of a summer filled with gun violence. To add insult to injury, the Supreme Court struck down the handgun ban…