The Shocking Details Behind The Relationship Between a Detroit Doctor and His Alleged Killer
Reaction to Tyler Perry Being Sued For Sexual Harassment
Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
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Obama's Vegas Vacation
As Vince “Double Down” Vaughn might have said to President Barack Obama: “You’re money, baby—and you don’t even know it.” No sooner did Obama joke to a Nashua, N.H., crowd Tuesday that “You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college,” than a bipartisan chorus of Nevada politicians…
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Don't Mess With the 'Stache! Holder Responds to McConnell
Eric Holder doesn’t like Sen. Mitch McConnell’s creativity with facts and said as much in a letter today, responding to critiques of the White House’s handling of failed Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Spencer Ackerman has a nice pull quote over on The Washington Independent Some have argued that had Abdulmutallab been declared an enemy…
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Check It Out: First Lady Finds Comfort in Her Role
A clip from The Today Show’s interview with First Lady Obama.
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Celebrating 100 Years of Black Cinema
As we all know, February marks Black History Month. But this year, February also marks something else: The 100th anniversary of the birth of black cinema. Black cinema was making black history before Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926. And this week, black cinema is making history once again with the nomination…
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Quick Hits: SCOTUSblog to Run "Race and the Supreme Court" Posts
SCOTUSblog is running a “Race and the Supreme Court” series on their website. Below is a schedule which is subject to change. Week 1 “Has the Supreme Court Been Mainly a Friend or a Foe to African Americans?: The Supreme Court’s Impact on Black History for the Past Fifty Years” –Michael Klarman, professor at Harvard…
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James O'Keefe Just Really Likes White People
Over on Salon, Max Blumenthal has a nice rundown of ACORN pimp turned failed eavesdropper James O’Keefe and his history of racially-hostile conservative activism. Below are a few highlights Now an activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O’Keefe at a 2006 conference on “Race and Conservatism” that featured leading white…
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Read/React: "Five Reasons Students Should Attend an HBCU"
Rolling Out provides five reasons to go to an HBCU. Ronald Childs, a graduate of Grambling State University, offered the following five reasons African American students should attend HBCUs: “They’re one of the few institutions that African Americans still control, so it’s more important now that we attend our black universities, that we graduate from…
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Check It Out: Las Vegas Salty at The President
If the president was speaking this way about Salt Lake City, The Buzz might understand the indignation. But Vegas? Come on.
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Iran Fires Research Rocket
Iran has fired a research rocket into space with several barnyard animals aboard and President Ahmadinejad is pretty pumped about it. From The Washington Post State television broadcast images of the launch of the 10-foot long Kavoshgar (Explorer)-3, and showed officials putting a mouse, two turtles and about a dozen creatures that looked like worms…