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
Oklahoma Black Man Hit By Patrol Car During Jaywalking Arrest, and That’s Not Even the Most Infuriating Part
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Read/React: Flying While Fat
Kate Harding of Salon has a take on “flying while fat” that goes beyond the discomforter of other passengers and considers the parties under the microscope Whenever the issue of whether larger people should be forced to buy two airline seats comes up — as it did this weekend, when director Kevin Smith was booted…
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Family Affair: "KSM Doesn't Deserve to Be Treated Like a War Criminal"
Tom Malinowski thinks trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a war criminal is a mistake It’s no surprise that al Qaeda members would want to be seen as soldiers at war with the United States. Terrorist groups always want to be seen as warriors. Just think of the names they give themselves: the Lord’s Resistance Army,…
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Have You Ever Been Too Fat to Fly?
Despite my weight, I’ve always been able to buckle in without a belt extender. However, when my daughter and I flew to Orlando last spring – I believe I was around 265 back then – I was grateful I sat next to her, because I immediately raised the armrest between us. You might know what…
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Check It Out: Is Cheney Dry Snitchin'?
Found this clip over on Crooks and Liars. Susie Madrak is convinced Dick Cheney is implicating himself in waterboarding authorization. Is he?
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Your Baby Has a Big Brother
The government has the genetic information of newborns on file. Some parents aren’t too pleased about that fact When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk…
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King Tut Died from Malaria, Broken Leg
New research has discovered that King Tut suffered from a host of medical setbacks. From The Washington Post Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study…
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Top Taliban Commander Captured
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, second in command to the Taliban’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden has been captured in the Karachi, Pakistan. One Pakistani officer said Baradar was arrested 10 days ago with the assistance of the United States and “was talking” to his interrogators. Baradar is the…
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Haitian Prez: It Will Take Three Years to Clear Rubble
Haitian President Rene Preval says it will take at least three years to clear the rubble following January 12th’s earthquake “It will take 1,000 trucks moving rubble for 1,000 days, so that’s three years. And until we move out rubble, we cannot really build,” Preval said. Sitting in the airport police station that serves as…
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Celebrating Candomblé in Bahia
When the 10.8 million African slaves disembarked from the hell-hole of the slave ships of the Middle Passage, they discovered that they had not sailed alone. In spite of the horrendous conditions onboard ship (15 percent of their countrymen died en route), many aspects of their various African heritages and cultures managed to survive with…
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What Is the “Real” Black History?
It’s Black History Month yet again. With several years of university teaching under my belt, I’ve begun to wonder what black history my students have actually learned during this month or any month before entering college. It’s clear the students know a version of black history that moves rather quickly from slavery to Reconstruction to…