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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Gitmo Lets Six Go
Six Yemeni prisoners have been released from Guantanamo Bay. Some are concerned these releases will begin a trend that further encourages terrorism. From The Washington Post: The Obama administration is planning to repatriate six Yemenis held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a transfer that could be a prelude to the release…
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Black Men Running the Field
This time last year, the number of African-American head coaches in the National Football League had reached an all-time high of 7 out of 32. Then a tumultuous post-season cut that number nearly in half. Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts retired, and two coaches, Romeo Crennel at Cleveland (4-12 record in 2008) and Herm…
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Avatar: A New Standard in Moviemaking
How to explain Avatar? It’s hauntingly beautiful, a masterpiece of CGI wizardry and 3-D pyrotechnics, nearly three hours of $300 million state-of-the-art filmmaking. James Cameron—he of Titanic and Terminator fame—has created a gorgeously imagined world of wise, blue humanoids, hanging mountains, empathic horses and vibrantly verdant scenery where massive, winged creatures appear to fly straight…
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Reform Movement Socks It to Lieberman (Video)
A MoveOn parody of the Senate Democrats’ lame response to Joe Lieberman’s antics about says it all… And if you’re forgetting how direly all of this matters to black America, by the way, here’s a reminder. But for all the anger around Lieberman, the fault lies in the White House. Many of us have criticized…
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Man Exonerated After 35 Years, Court Registers Epic Fail
James Bain is free after a thirty-five year oopsie with the department of corrections. From CNN: After more than three decades in prison, a Florida man was set free Thursday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974. “I’m not angry,” James Bain, 54, told reporters after…
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Check It Out: On the Corner
Tiger Tiger Tiger Woods, y’all. On The Corner Episode 1 – About Tiger Woods…. from Leigh Davenport on Vimeo.
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Minority Businesses Shut Out from Stimulus
All that stimulus money and minority businesses aren’t seeing a whole lot of it. From New America Media: Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses — especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos — according to data provided by the federal…
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FLASH: Tiger Woods Seeks Asylum in France
We know that the French find our sex scandals and our Puritanical public dialogue amusing, so it’s no surprise they’ve really gone to town on Tiger Woods’ woes. However, the Gallic media tend to find American outrage more interesting than American sins. They’ve got plenty of their own. Our sister site in France, Slate.fr, ran…
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Lee Daniels Passed Over by Golden Globes
Lee Daniels will not have to be fashionably late to the Golden Globes. From Black Voices: The Golden Globes nominations were announced today and, as expected, ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire was among the nominees, but director Lee Daniels and screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher failed to make the cut.Along with a nod for…
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BREAKING: Bengals Receiver Dies After Fall from Truck
Chris Henry has died from injuries sustained after falling from a truck bed during a domestic dispute with his fiancee. From ESPN: Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry died Thursday, one day after suffering injures in a fall from the back of a pickup truck, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. He was 26. Police on Wednesday described the…