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The Secret Delight of Reality Television
MTV will air the finale of its hit reality series, Jersey Shore, tonight. At one point it seemed like the show wouldn’t make it because of criticism and complaints from organizations like the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus. Apparently, many were up in arms (but their fists weren’t pumping) about the stereotypical characters and…
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Pay Up, Kwame!
Lessons to the text message generation: It can cost you BIG. Disgraced Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to fork over almost $320,000 after a judge found out that Kilpatrick had hidden money away following his 2008 conviction that required he pay a $1 million restitution. From The Detroit News udge David Groner ordered…
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Software Prez Gets Posterized in NYC
What the heck are gigantic billboards of Oracle Corporation co-president Charles Phillips, and his “girlfriend,” YaVaughnie Wilkins, doing at 3rd Avenue and on Times Square in New York? The pro-athlete-outside-the-arena size posters have a link on them to the couple’s Web site. The site contains photo albums from 2001 through 2009, the couple singing Karaoke…
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Remember When Gitmo Was Supposed to Close?
While perusing Black Snob, The Buzz was reminded that a year ago this week, President Obama vowed to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. One year later, that has yet to happen, though its closure can’t be counted out just yet. Or can it?
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White Men *Can* Jump
Out of the “stranger than fiction” file from The Augusta Chronicle, it appears there’s a new basketball league trying to gain a foothold. It’s hook? Featuring only white American players. Yessss The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta…
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SATISFACTION, PRIDE OR DELIRIUM?
In light of the current economic climate – while chewing on recent Republican, populist-tinged victories in New Jersey, Virginia and, most recently, Massachusetts – the question regarding African American support for President Obama is bound to come up. It’s the anniversary of his first full year in office, we prognosticators expecting it. But, it’s an…
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DC Council Bill Proposes Up to Five Marijuana Dispensaries
Medical marijuana news out of DC. From The Washington Post The District would have up to five medical marijuana dispensaries where seriously ill patients could go to obtain the drug from a licensed vendor under a bill proposed Tuesday by D.C. Council member David A. Catania. Catania’s proposal, which was co-sponsored by nine of 13…
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Questions Still Swirl Around Yele
Yele is continuing to catch heat. According to unnamed sources who spoke with Gawker, the realities in Haiti are too big for Wyclef Jean’s foundation to handle People who have worked for Yele Haiti in the past are speaking up to express concern that Jean’s celebrity is drawing urgently needed donations away from established NGOs…
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TSA Nominee Southers Withdraws Name
In what will be seen as yet another blow to the Obama administration, TSA nominee Erroll Southers has withdrawn his name from consideration. From The Washington Post: Southers’s nomination had faced fierce opposition from Republicans, especially since revelations that he may have misled Congress about an incident in the late 1980s involving a background check…