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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Pew Report: 1 in 15 Children Born in the U.S. Are 'Anchor Babies'
We’re sure that the GOP is doing a happy dance. About one out of every 15 children in the United States was born to a family in which at least one parent is in this country illegally, according to a new Pew Research report. Four out of five of those 5.1 million children — including…
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Ben Quayle: Obama Worst President in History
The son of former Vice President Dan Quayle released a political ad admonishing President Barack Obama. In his bid to represent the 3rd Congressional District in Arizona, Quayle called President Barack Obama “The Worst President in History.” He also told Arizona voters that he would “knock the hell out” of Washington. Wow. Is this his…
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Can Wyclef Jean Tap Haiti's Youth Movement?
During his 14-year reign as Haiti’s “president for life,” François “Papa Doc” Duvalier waged a war of attrition against his own people, looted the country’s finances and “disappeared” thousands of dissident voices. Duvalier, like capitalism, was no respecter of persons. Knowing this, one would not expect to find an abundance of Papa Doc memorabilia on…
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30,000 People Show Up for Public Housing Help in Atlanta
A huge crowd of people flooded the public housing office in East Point Wednesday, hoping to get on the waiting list for housing assistance. Tens of thousands of people overtook the office, standing in sweltering heat, waiting for an application. A heavy police presence was there, along with ambulances assisting those overcome by heat. The office reported that more than…
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Black Teen Users Dominate Conversations on Twitter
Apparently, black folks use Twitter in a way no one else does — to such an extent that black users establish trending topics on Twitter. Not only do blacks use more descriptive hashtags, but they form tighter clusters on the network, follow one another more readily and retweet each other more often. Plus, more of…
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'Roots' Producer David Wolper Dies
David L. Wolper, whose landmark 1977 miniseries Roots captured the imagination of the country, has passed away. Roots explored an American family descended from slaves. Wolper also produced the children’s classic Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Wolper died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home Tuesday evening…
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Top Racial Conspiracy Theories
Truthout reports that the U.S. Defense Department forced Guantánamo Bay detainees to take dangerously high doses of the anti-malarial drug mefloquine even though they didn’t have malaria symptoms, a move that one doctor called “pharmacologic waterboarding.” Too much of the drug can cause seizures, hallucinations and suicidal thoughts. Army Reserve Major Montgomery Granger, who was…
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48 Cupcakes, 1 Ice Cream Cake . . . and That’s Just Today
I am picking up four dozen cupcakes in about three hours. It’s August, which means it’s Birthday Season in the Ansley household. Today, Skyler turns 18. Since she coaches as well as cheers, she’ll be at the gym all afternoon and evening. It’s become somewhat of a tradition that if a cheerleader’s birthday falls on…
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VIDEO: New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don't Love Each Other
The Onion pokes fun at the hypocrisy of California’s Prop 8 and the nation’s obsession with it. New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other
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Could More Minority Bankers Have Prevented The Mortgage Crisis?
As Politico put it late last month, one of the “little-noticed” sections of the Wall Street reform bill gave the government power to kill contracts with firms that fail to initiate diversity in the workplace. Saying that it expects “fair inclusion” of women and minorities, the new law “goes further than any previous attempt by…