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LA’s Black Mayor’s Warning of Trump’s Scary Plans For The City Demands Utmost Attention
Sherri Shepherd Finally Breaks Her Silence on Her Drama With Nia Long
Three Black Women Have Been Found Dead This Year in New England, Here’s Why Some Fear a Serial Killer is At Large
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Leader Defends Agency Response to Toyota Fiasco
David Strickland claims the NHTSA’s investigation into the Toyota acceleration problem did not warrant demanding a recall. Rebuffing criticism of slow action and underfunded efforts, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said his agency acted properly in investigating complaints about sudden-acceleration problems in Toyota vehicles and has enough money and staff to…
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Pardons Sought for Those Who Help Slaves Escape to Freedom
Imprisoning people for helping slaves flee bondage isn’t tight and a Kentucky group is working to have the convicted pardoned by the governor In the 19th century, Kentucky convicted at least 58 people for “seducing or enticing slaves to leave their lawful owners.” Defendants faced 20 years in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, where some died.…
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Obama Trial Gets Underway
Just in case you forgot, Rev. James David Manning is putting the President on trial at Columbia. Dave Weigel reminds us The subject of the trial: the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a “C.I.A. operative” in 1981, and that he “supplied arms, logistics, and money” to the Mujahideen “using his Muslim background.” … Background…
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Monica Conyers Receives 3 Years for Guilty Plea, Looking to Appeal
If you didn’t do what the Feds accuse you of, you should not enter a guilty plea. If you enter a guilty plea, you should not ask for your right to appeal, especially if you claim you did not do anything. Monica Conyers apparently missed that day in class After months of silence, the combative…
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Single-Minded: So Now We're Sexual Terrorists?
He yelled, “Helena Andrews has the best p**** in the world!” into the receiver, and the line went dead-leaving the next man on the other end speechless. I didn’t hear about this mobile hit and run until weeks later when the podiatrist I was dating at the time just so happened to mention that he’d…
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The Story Behind the Alarming Herpes Numbers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement that nearly half of African-American women are infected with herpes has prompted reactions from panic and shock to outrage and disbelief. The study finds that women and blacks were most likely to be infected. The prevalence of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) was nearly twice as high…
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The Road From Selma to Montgomery, Revisited
On March 7, 1965, 600 people headed east out of Selma, Ala., to demand equal voting rights for African Americans. They didn’t get far—only six blocks—to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. There, state and local law enforcement attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. John Lewis, then a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…
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Henrietta Lacks and Her Cancer Cells
What are we to do with the waves of pain, humiliation and outrage that flood from the pages of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? Not that I blame the author for the high emotions this story elicits. Rebecca Skloot did her job, and she did it expertly. As was the case with Harriet A.…