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Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Loses Bid for an Eighth Term
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the mother of the imprisoned ex-mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick, lost her bid for an eighth term with a Democratic-primary defeat Tuesday. The 65-year-old Detroit congresswoman lost to State Sen. Hansen Clarke of Detroit, who had 47 percent of the vote to Kilpatrick’s 41 percent, with 56 percent of precincts reporting. Rep.…
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Nike Responds to Big Butt Ad
Fresh from our “Wow” file, the Nike big-butt ad that has the Internet buzzing is actually a fake. According to Jezebel.com, the person who created it took the copy from a 2005 campaign. The current Nike ad for the Trainer One is body-part free. We guess you can’t trust a big butt and a smile…
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New Orleans Five Years After the Water
Many New Orleanians are feeling less patriotic these days after the experience of navigating government red tape to access any resources for rebuilding after the storm. Five years after Katrina, some families still live in trailers with the hope of rehabilitating their homes one day. Originally built in 1941 and expanded in 1955, much of…
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Gay Marriage Ruling Overturned
A federal judge in California has overturned the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, ruling Wednesday that the state’s controversial Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found in his ruling that the ban violated the Constitution’s equal-protection clause under the 14th Amendment. The closely watched case came almost two years after…
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MSNBC's Tamron Hall Admits the Media Got It Wrong on Sherrod
MSNBC’s Tamron Hall has finally said what needed to be said about the media’s role in the Shirley Sherrod debacle: We got it wrong. In an interview with Death+Taxes, Hall admits that getting the Shirley Sherrod story wrong was “a real kick in the gut for credible journalists.” She also said, “[The media] should be…
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When the World Hands You Lemons, Make Sugar-Free Lemonade
My, aren’t we negative today . . . A report released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that Americans are getting fatter and fatter, with obesity rates reaching 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to just three states in 2007. That means that 2.4 million…
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Will.i.am Does Not Support Michael Jackson's Posthumous Album
Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am is speaking out against Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, which is expected to be released at the end of the year. The album will consist of previously unreleased tracks taken from Michael Jackson’s vaults. Will.i.am, who collaborated with Jackson before his death, believes that it should not happen because the…
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Happy Birthday, President Obama
Apparently President Obama didn’t get the memo that birthdays are the equivalent of holidays for black people. We can’t count the number of times we’ve heard, “I’m taking tomorrow off because it’s my birthday.” Well, like many of us who think that’s ridiculous, President Obama is doing what he normally does on his 49th birthday:…
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Black Conservatives Bar Press from National Gathering
A throng of black conservatives is meeting at the National Press Club today and, somewhat ironically, barring the press from their proceedings. More than a dozen right-wing African American leaders—some of them more infamous than famous—are set to speak at the event, including Alan Keyes, Star Parker, Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation,…
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Omar Thornton: 'I Killed the Five Racists That Was There Bothering Me'
Fresh from our “Please don’t let ’em be black” file: The man who killed eight people and then himself at a Connecticut brewery reportedly spoke with his mother before taking his life. His mother says that he told her about shooting the people who had harassed him at the job. “He said, ‘I killed the five…