Arkansas Deputy Gets His Karma After Racist Video Spreads Online
Black Museums, Exhibits That Should Be On Your Summer Vacation Plans
After Customer Got Caught In A Hilarious Braid Shop Brawl, She Recorded The Whole Thing
Meghan Markle Breaks Her Silence On Her Viral Twerk Video
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Read/React: "Free Sundiata Acoli"
Assata Shakur co-defendant Sundiata Shakur is up for parole after 36 years. Thoughts?
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Attack of the Creole Pork Roast
Yesterday was the first time since Saturday I had a decent workout, for all manner of reasons: Pulling an all-nighter (dumb, dumb, dumb); hubby using my car while his was in the shop, etc. I’d started my weight-loss program exactly one week ago, and felt like I was already blowing it.<!—[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]—><!—[endif]—> So I was…
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The Food of Love: New Janelle Monae – "Tightrope"
R&B songstress Janelle Monae chops it up with Big Boi of Outkast on her latest single “Tightrope.” Pitchfork embedding won’t let The Buzz be great, so you’ll have to click on through to check it out. Check out Janelle at AfroPunk 2009
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Air Goddesses: The History of Black Women in Flight
Over on Suite 101, a nice write-up on Black women in aviation Make no mistake African-American women do fly planes, and in growing numbers greater than one might think! Surprising to many, black women have been earning their wings since 1921 when Bessie Coleman was licensed in Paris from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (F.A.I.), and…
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Let's Go Ahead and Boo Roy Williams
In discussing his mediocre season to a room full of reporters on the eve of the Duke-North Carolina game, North Carolina head coach had this to say about his team’s sub-par conference record “Our massage therapist told me, ‘You know, coach, what happened in Haiti is a catastrophe. What you’re having is a disappointment,’ ”…
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Iraq to Blackwater: You May Go Now
Iraq calls in Blackwater’s tab and says 250 current and former employees need be out of the country in seven days. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told the Associated Press news agency that all “concerned parties” were notified of the order three days ago. It comes after a US judge last December threw out manslaughter charges…
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Kadaffi Fails in Second Attempt to Chair African Union
Libyan leader Moammar el Kaddafi wasn’t exactly a lion for African unity in his time as African Union chair and his colleagues let him know as much when they told him to go take a hike after attempting to chair a second term. From All Africa He flounced out of the AU summit in Addis…
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Nothing Special for the Black Jobless
President Barack Obama did something Wednesday he hasn’t done until now in his first year in office; he had an exclusive meeting with civil rights leaders. The first African-American president of the U.S. met with the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network; Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, and Benjamin Jealous,…
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Somalia and Yemen: Al-Qaida's Next Hot Spots?
The Obama administration understands the strategic importance of the Gulf of Aden. The warm waters between Somalia, Yemen and Djibouti are the gateway to the Suez Canal, which carries the heaviest shipping between Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The administration does not need a terrorist attack on shipping through the gulf similar to…