Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Detroit Mayor Bans Cameras from Police Operations
In the wake of Aiyana Jones’ death, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has banned camera crews from filming police raids When the Detroit Police Department’s SWAT team lobbed a flash grenade and forced entry into Aiyana Stanley-Jones‘ home in search of a murder suspect earlier this month, they had company: A reality television crew was filming…
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Some in Congress Work to Repeal Citizenship by Birth
A new phase of the immigration debate is heating up as some members of Congress and other lawmakers are working on an anti-birthright bill which would prevent children born in the US to illegal immigrant parents from being citizens. “Currently, if you have a child born to two alien parents, that person is believed to…
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Pressure on White House to Do More about Gulf Spill as BP Just Kind of Shrugs
It seems that the only people that can make heads roll in the BP oil spill is the Obama administration and some want just that done. BP, for its part says the situation is complicated. Oil giant BP is briefing the federal government on its internal investigation into the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill…
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The Black Fashion Museum's New Closet
The velvet opera coat was stretched out on a bed of archival paper and tucked into a person-size box that resembled a humble coffin. A clutch of Smithsonian curators and restoration experts gently lifted it — like scholarly pallbearers with white gloved hands and keen eyes for precision — onto an examination table for loving…
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Why Rand Paul is Not Ready for Prime Time
Lee Daniels, on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s blog, dissects the Tea Party favorite’s language. You remember George Allen? He was the Republican Senator from Virginia, widely considered as late as mid-2006 the odds-on favorite to succeed George W. Bush as President –until he self-destructed in a “macaca” minute during the re-election contest that he…
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Jamaica Faces a Defining Moment
The simmering tensions in Jamaica’s lawless West Kingston turned vicious Monday as thugs fought fierce gun battles with the island’s security forces to prevent the arrest of Christopher “Dudus” Coke for extradition to the United States. He is wanted here (in the US) for drug trafficking and weapons smuggling. Tivoli Gardens, Dudus’ stronghold in West…
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FED UP: Rachel, 1 Week after Weight-Loss Surgery
Since there was such a big response to last week’s Q&A with “Rachel,” figured I’d publish this email she sent to me Saturday. I edited out one or two details that might make you squeamish. (OK, they made ME squeamish.) Leslie: I was released from the hospital (Friday) at about 1 p.m. Considering the major…
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Supreme Court Says Black Firefighter Lawsuit Can Proceed
Firefighter candidates in Chicago say a discriminatory application process kept them from getting hired. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that a group of African Americans may sue the city of Chicago on their claim that the city’s discriminatory use of an application test kept them from being hired as firefighters. The justices rejected…
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Elin Want Three Quarters of a Billi, Tiger Considers with Conditions
Things are getting sporty in the Woods household. Gawker had this to say She’s demanding $750 million from Tiger Woods in divorce negotiations. That is some pricey misery. Plus, Elin isn’t agreeing to Tiger’s demands for a confidentiality clause that would prevent her from writing a book or devloping a mini-series or line of collectible…
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Perry Trying to Go Global
Tyler Perry has made less than a million overseas. He’s looking to change that. Hit movies like “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and the TBS series “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” have long made Mr. Perry a household name in North America, where his films alone have racked up $450 million in ticket sales.…