Sole Survivor Explains How He’s Alive After Air India Crash
The Very Short List of Black Celebs Speaking Out Against Trump’s ICE Raids
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband ‘Target of Political Assasination’ but It Gets Worse
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All This Pain is Supposedly a Good Thing. (Yeah, Right.)
I hurt. I won’t say it’s a “good” hurt because it ain’t. These are bone-deep aches that are affecting the way I move through the day. Have to wonder if I’m overdoing it. I can’t imagine that’s the case, though something’s not quite right. It would be great to add a weekly massage to keep…
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Brooklyn Lawmaker: Hey Kids! Pull Up Your Pants. You Look Ridiculous.
New York State Senator Eric Adams has had enough of seeing young cats’ butts hanging out.
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Check It Out: Erykah Badu's "Window Seat"
Ms. Badu doing what Ms. Badu does. What do you think?
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Steele's Spending a Matter of Concern for Some in GOP
Did Michael Steele really suggest the RNC use its funds to buy a private plane? Some within the party say this is so According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel. “I know that … regular…
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Settlement for Black Farmers Not Set In Stone
The settlement between the Department of Agriculture and Black farmers isn’t yet a done deal. A $1.25 billion settlement between black farmers and the Agriculture Department is at risk of unraveling after Congress adjourned for a two-week break without approving the spending. The settlement, to which the Obama administration agreed last month, has been hailed…
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Census Bureau Director Apologizes for 'Negro'
A C-SPAN caller, upset with the Negro category on the census, elicited an apology from Census Bueau director Robert Groves on Friday On Friday’s edition of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Census Bureau Director Robert Groves apologized to a caller for the “negro” classification on the 2010 census form. “I am black. I did not appreciate the…
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State Dinner Clowns Cast on 'Real Housewives of DC'
Michaele and Tareq Salahi, State Dinner crashers and known idiots, are living their dream The Virginia-based social climbers got the instant fame they’d been craving when they bluffed their way into President Obama‘s first State Dinner last November. The Bravo cameras were already trailing the Salahis and recorded some of the stunt, which ultimately cost…
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President Obama's Black Agenda
I have to admit I was a bit perplexed when I was a panelist recently at Tavis Smiley’s “We Count: The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” forum in Chicago, which focused heavily on what President Barack Obama has not done for the black community, rather than the significant down payment he has made in…
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Obama Goes to Afghanistan to Lecture Karzai
While most of the nation thought President Obama was resting up from a busy legislative week with a visit to Camp David, he was secretly flying to Afghanistan, the new focus of American military effort. This was only the second visit by the President to the war zone — he visited troops in Iraq last year…