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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Unlocking Oprah Winfrey's Secrets
by Stephen Metcalf From an early age, along the way to pleasing white audiences who wanted the uplift without the guilt, Winfrey learned to make her blackness both integral and incidental to who she was-quite a deft maneuver. “I grew up a little Negro child who felt so unloved and so isolated,” said Winfrey. “The…
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Payday Lenders Get Their Way in Financial Reform
Payday lenders won’t be limited in their shenanigans The legislation that now appears destined for President Obama’s desk won’t include an amendment that would have limited the number of high-interest loans payday lenders could make to cash-strapped consumers. The industry had mounted an aggressive “grass-roots” effort to sway lawmakers by having customers voice opposition to…
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Aiyana Jones' Neighbors Say House Was No Place for Child
Below is an excerpt of an exclusive from Black Voices: As they reconcile the senseless death of a young child at the hands of Detroit police, neighbors of the residents who live in the home, where 7-year-old Aiyana Jones was killed, also welcome a newfound peace on that block of the East Side neighborhood. Although…
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Rodent Makes Appearance During Obama Wall Street Presser
So what furry creature scurried across the Rose Garden steps while President Obama gave a statement on his Wall Street reform bill? Obama seemed not to notice the furry visitor, but his audience certainly did. After the statement, when Obama was out of earshot, reporters and photographers started arguing about the species of the creature, The Associated Press reported. Was it a rat? A mouse? A mole? “I would partially rule out rat,” said Russell Link,…
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NEWS STAND: New Rules for Banks and Borrowers, Zuma's Tears, ACLU Defends Kids Sexting, and more..
Better Late than Never: New bank rules for lenders and borrowers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul From our better late than never file, new rules for banks and consumers have emerged following the housing bubble that burst and decimated the economy. After much debate, Congress is getting tougher on the lenders and borrowers by creating new bank rules. Banks…
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American Counterfeiter Lands Herself in Nigerian Jail
Funny money is useful to pay for things until you are locked up for producing it and sent to prison for two years. Just ask Sharon Denis Thorpe who ran afoul of Nigerian authorities and will be making license plates for the next 24 months Miss Thorpe, 27 was arrested in February through intelligence by…
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The Urban Politico Unmasks the Prison Industrial Complex
The Urban Politico is taking on the prison industrial complex in a new series. Below is an excerpt from Part I. The Prison Industrial Complex refers to the interweaving of private business and government interests. Its twofold purpose is profit and social control. Its public rationale is the fight against crime. Using the same fear…