Internet Is Furious After Trump Is Quiet About Juneteenth Except for This 1 Post…
15 Freedom Songs to Add to Your Juneteenth Playlist
Whoopi Goldberg’s Comments On “The View” About Iran Sparked Online Outrage
Why Black Folks Who Did Not Know Juneteenth Was A Thing Until Biden Said So …Need Their Black Card Revoked
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Social Security at 75: Strengthen It, Don't Cut It
The phone rings. It’s your 75-year-old Aunt Mildred, the one who helped you and your brother financially after your father died. She also helped your first cousins whose mom was disabled, and always had a little extra for her brother Steve who had difficulty making ends meet after he retired. Aunt Mildred is calling to…
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Bad Luck for Chicago's Bloody Summer
Just last weekend, a veteran Chicago law enforcement officer said he was hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court would strike down the city’s longstanding handgun ban because it would help address the city’s intractable gang problem. “That way everybody would be able to carry a gun,” said the veteran officer, who patrols the border of…
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The Recession's Long-Term Impact on Black Kids
As adults wrestle with rising foreclosure rates and disappearing jobs, child-development experts are reporting that children may end up shouldering some of the most severe, long-lasting consequences of the recession of 2008, according to the Foundation for Child Development (FCD). Working with an index of 28 indicators of quality of life called the Overall Composite…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Images of War in Mogadishu and Kandahar
By Alex Strick Van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn “We can’t let you leave.” The African Union soldiers with whom we’d thrown in our lot a few hours earlier were shocked to learn we actually planned to head back into the city of Mogadishu, abandoning the relative safety of their base on the outskirts of the Somali…
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Part 3: What's Eating African-American Women?
(Last of three parts.) The children of Generation X are being called “Generation Triple XL,” as in an XXXL shirt size. Where to place the blame? Some say it’s all the hormones, chemicals and additives in our food, from baby formula to Thanksgiving turkeys. Others, all the high-fructose corn syrup in the American diet. Then…
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Byrd's Replacement Continues to Color the Government
If anything good has come from the loss of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who died yesterday at the age of 92, it’s another milestone in the changing of America’s political face. As you no doubt know, there had never been a black president before Barack Obama. As you may not have known, however, for…
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Missing Woman's Mother Sues L.A. County and Sheriff's Officials
Latice Sutton, the mother of Mitice Richardson, who has been missing since last September, is suing Los Angeles County and sheriff’s officials. You may recall that Sutton’s daughter Mitice disappeared after she was released from police custody because of overcrowding. She had been arrested for an unpaid bill at Geoffrey’s restaurant. The problem is that…
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AZ Senator Attacks Kagan Over Her Admiration for Thurgood Marshall
Fresh from “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” file, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl attacked Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan for her admiration of Thurgood Marshall’s judicial philosophy. Kyl stated that “it’s not exactly mainstream,” whatever that’s supposed to mean (in our best Diamond/Lisa Raye voice). Was that supposed to be an insult? Are…
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The Z in Kazakhstan stands for Zeta
I’ve met Black Greeks pretty much everywhere I’ve traveled. Whether they were chilling in Toronto, living on an ashram in Accra, Ghana, or serving beer in a London pub, I’m never surprised. But Black Greeks in Kazakhstan? What the…? Meet Erica McMahon, Syracuse grad and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority soror, who ditched her lucrative career…
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Did Nepotism or Know-How Make These People Stars?
Occupation: Child actorBest Known For: His starring role in the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid and supporting roles in The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Pursuit of Happyness.Background: His superstar parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.Nepotism or Know-How? Sure, nepotism gave him a solid boost (come on, he played opposite his…