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Is your hairstyle keeping you overweight?
Here I am, all ready with my coffee and facts, getting ready to write a bit about the headlined topic, when my email dinged, announcing six new ones. I clicked over to Outlook, and among them was a Google alert featuring this story: “Must black women choose between beauty and health?” I don’t believe in…
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Unemployment Benefits Extension Fails
In another instance of being kicked while down, Senate Republicans and Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson voted against a bill that would have extended unemployment benefits for another 6 months. With the death of Sen. Robert Byrd and Nelson’s nay vote, Democrats failed to protect the interests of unemployed Americans. Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan…
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Elian Gonzalez Toes the Line in Message to U.S. Relatives
On the 10th anniversary of Elian Gonzalez’s return to Cuba after a huge international custody battle, the 16-year-old speaks about his feelings about the matter. He says that he’s not angry at his Miami relatives who fought to keep him in the United States but is happy with his father in Cuba. He thanked Americans…
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Tiger Woods Interviewed in HGH Probe
Tiger Woods was questioned as part of a federal investigation involving Canadian Dr. Anthony Galea. Galea is accused of distributing human growth hormone (HGH) and has been charged with conspiracy, smuggling, distributing HGH and introducing an unapproved drug into interstate commerce by federal authorities. Woods admits that he was treated by Dr. Galea but did…
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Welfare Cash Dispensed at Strip Clubs in California
“Putting your money to work unwisely” should be California’s new motto. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the Department of Social Services to remove strip clubs from the official list of businesses that dispense welfare cash. Apparently if you run out of money while making it rain or don’t make enough money on stage or…
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Why Can't Black Writers Escape the Literary Ghetto?
By Bernice L. McFadden Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help, published by a Penguin Books imprint, sold 1 million books within a year of publication. Her novel has gained accolades and awards, including the prestigious South African Boeke Prize. The Help is being adapted for the screen; at the helm of production is the Academy Award-winning…
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America's Slow Embrace of World Music
The cult of Michael Jackson in Japan, jazz quartets in Sweden, and rappers from Russia to the Gaza Strip. Black artists from the United States shape the music the rest of the world listens to and makes. But black musicians from other parts of the world, especially Africa, still have a hard time breaking out…
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The Down-Low Delusion
Last Tuesday on The View, during a conversation about the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, guest host D.L. Hughley attempted to school America on why HIV is so prevalent among African-American women. He said with confidence, “They are getting it from men who are on the down low.”…
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That's My Jam: Top Ten Hip-Hop Videos With Black Greeks!
Don’t front, you know you get hyped when you see it. A popular hip-hop artist has a new video and BAM, there it is! Your frat or sorority members are all over the video, stepping, chilling, sporting para and generally representing the org in front of millions. Or he or she is the artist on…
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Former Star NFL Quarterback Randall Cunningham's Son Dies
Former star NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham’s two-year-old son Christian died of an apparent hot tub accident. The coroner’s office has not named an official cause of death, but it appears to be an accidental drowning in the star’s backyard hot tub. Cunningham, 47, is an ordained minister and pastor of a church, that he manages…