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Why Aren’t More People Dropping Dead at the Gym?
Heart attack. Stroke. Congestive heart failure. There are several different reasons why these problems have been front-of-mind lately, most recently this morning when, after a session with Leslie Moraitis left me sweating and breathing hard, I wondered why I wasn’t clutching my chest and falling to the floor. Am I the only one who’s ever…
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God Forbid, 'My Baby Is Black!'
The trailer for the French film My Baby Is Black (Les Lâches Vivent D’espoir), originally released in 1961, is making its rounds on the web again. This film, which was released in the United States in 1965, examines race relations during the 1960s through the storyline of a white college student who gives birth to…
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Happy Birthday, Tupac!
Rap legend Tupac Shakur would have turned 39 years old today. How befitting that the man who would help shape hip-hop music and culture was born during black music month. Fourteen years ago Tupac Shakur was assassinated (yeah, Chris Rock, we said it and we mean it). We’re still going through changes over it. Check…
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Going to Extremes: Woman Shoots Herself for Medical Care
You’ve heard the phrases, “cutting off your nose to spite your face,” or “shooting yourself in the foot.” Well, a Michigan woman took it further by shooting herself in her shoulder in order to get the help that she needed but could not afford. Uninsured and broke, Kathy Myers shot herself in the shoulder, where…
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Friendly Skies: Flight Attendant Helps Land Plane
An American Airlines flight attendant with a commercial pilot’s license took over for an ailing co-pilot. The co-pilot became ill on the flight from San Francisco to Chicago, so the first officer asked if there were any off-duty pilots on the plane. The flight attendant informed the first officer that she is licensed commercial pilot,…
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BP Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
BP finally puts its money where its mouth is. The besieged oil company has agreed to put $20 billion in an escrow fund to pay for claims in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. BP made the offer during its meeting with President Obama to address how to resolve the oil spill and compensate those…
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Did Bob Marley Shoot the Sheriff?
Chris Salewicz’s biography Bob Marley: The Untold Story details how the reggae legend was a more complex figure than the sanitized image of him shown to the free world today. Salewicz’s claims include womanizing (earth-shattering), thuggery and an inability to accept Robert Mugabe’s evil deeds. The book also alleges that Marley himself ordered and watched…
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Obama and the Oil Spill: The Things You Can't Fix
President Barack Obama, using all the prestige of his office and the office itself, sought to assure Americans last night that he was on top of the oil spill disaster currently devastating parts of the Gulf Coast, destroying lives and livelihoods at an alarming rate. He meant to show not only that he understood the…
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Study: Latino Immigrants Choose ‘White’ Pass
Researchers from the University of Illinois and Ohio State University have examined the racial identities immigrants take on when trying to assimilate. They found nearly four out of five recent Latino migrants, regardless of skin color, called themselves white. The results are attributed to the anti-immigration sentiment permeating the United States, the desire for social…