A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
In Minnesota Assassination Attempt, Wife’s Split-Second Decision is a Testament to a Mother’s Love
KWN, ‘The Female Version of Chris Brown’ Got Black Men Worried And For Good Reason
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It’s a Slam Dunk: Forget the Elliptical and Pass Me the Ball
It was 6:35 a.m., and I was in the gym, heading for the resistance machines. Sick of the boring elliptical, I figured I’d change things up and do strength training first, then maybe finish up on the elliptical or the treadmill, whatever I felt like doing to get the aerobic portion over with. So this…
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Powell Charges Rangel with…Being a Politician
Claiming this has nothing to do with the way Rangel ousted his father in 1970, Adam Clayton Powell 4th is running against Bowtie Charlie Rangel in Harlem: Kicking off his campaign to oust Rep. Charlie Rangel today, Adam Clayton Powell 4th charged that the elder statesman merely wants to run and win so he can…
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Liz Taylor Tweets: Jason Won't Be No. 9
A report that Elizabeth Taylor is about to make talent manager Jason Winters her ninth husband is false, the screen legend Tweeted today. Apparently the 78-year-old white actress and Winters, who is African American and 29 years younger, are simply BFFs who just happen to share a house in Hawaii.
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"The Other Side of Detroit"
Urbanophile’s Aaron M. Renn has an interesting look at Detroit, a side which isn’t likely to make the nightly news. Below are some interesting facts which accompany the photo gallery Detroit is Big. When you hear about Detroit, a mention of its population collapse can’t be far behind. Detroit’s population fell by 50% from its…
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'In Living Color' Cast: Then and Now
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Of course, you remember Keenen as the writer and creator of In Living Color, before he left the show due to disputes with the network over censorship. In Living Color won an Emmy Award in 1990 for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy…
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NEWS STAND: Senegalese Gays Cannot RIP, 'The Real McCoy' FAIL, GOP Promise Gets Side Eye
Homophobia Runs Amok in Senegal: Dead, Dug-Up and DumpedFresh from the “are you kidding me” file, homophobes are digging up the bodies of gays and dumping them on the doorsteps of their family members in Senegal. Yes, you read right — there is no “rest in peace,” for gays in that country. It is truly…
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Tea Party Candidate for New York Gubernatorial Race is Adorable!
Suddenly David Paterson doesn’t seem so bad. New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino may not exactly be Albany material An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New…
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Today in Postracialism: Oprah and John Tesh
Not sure how credible this is—it’s an unauthorized biography after all—but the prospect of a Winfrey/Tesh romance tickled the Buzz Long before she was a billionaire media mogul romantically linked to Stedman Graham, young Oprah Winfrey reportedly had a different boyfriend: John Tesh. In a new, unauthorized Winfrey tell-all, celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley claims that…
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New Light Shed on Post-Katrina Vigilante Shootings
Three days after Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into a ghost town, somebody shot Donnell Herrington twice in Algiers Point, ripping a hole in his throat. Herrington, who is African-American, says he was ambushed by a group of armed white men who attacked without warning or provocation. He barely survived the shooting, which shredded his…