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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DC Same-Sex Marriage Vote Tuesday
Marriage equality in the District will likely take huge strides today as a vote to legalize gay marriage is expected to pass. From CNN: “The District of Columbia’s city council is scheduled to vote – and expected to pass – a measure that would recognize gay marriages as legal. The city council overwhelmingly passed the…
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Illinois Goes Gitmo: State to Receive Guantanamo Detainees
Gitmo goes stateside. White House officials have announced that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be transferred to Thomson orrectional Center in Illinois, the first steps in an effort to shut down the prison complex in Cuba. From CNN: A limited number of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison will be transferred to a prison…
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Tongue Twisters
Invictus, an uplifting, Clint Eastwood-directed sports movie and Nelson Mandela biopic, seems to contain all the ingredients for commercial and critical success. Of course, box-office stars Morgan Freeman (as Mandela) and Matt Damon (as South African rugby captain Francois Pienaar) will give the film extra juice going into Oscar season. But to some critics, the…
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25 Years Later: Remembering The Movement that Unraveled Apartheid
There comes a time in the life of a people when the tyranny of their government becomes too much and they rebel. There comes a time when the quality of life is more important than life itself. That time for black South Africans came in the 1950s, when the yoke of Apartheid grew tighter still. …
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And We Shopped Happily Ever After
“Can we buy this, Mom?” Wandering through the grocery store last week, my 6-year-old daughter, Maven, spied a can of chicken soup. This wasn’t just any old chicken soup; this was the Disney Princess edition, with pasta rendered in “cool shapes,” including a castle, Cinderella slipper, carriage and crown. I challenge any red-blooded American kindergartner…
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Joe Wants to Filibuster. Why Not Let Him?
[Scroll down for update] Here we go again. In case you somehow missed it: Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has decided he’d rather be a spoiler than a reformer. He’s declared he’ll filibuster any health reform bill that includes an expansion of Medicare to cover people as young as 55, despite the fact that he supported…
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Check It Out: Lieberman Endorses Medicare Buy-In
Found this video over on The Plum Line. For a guy who doesn’t care for the current Medicare approach in the reform bill, he certainly seemed convinced 90 days ago. Quoth Lieberman: “My proposals were to basically expand the existing successful public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid… “When it came to Medicare I was…
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Blog Noir: Disappointment Is the Recurrent Black
Sister Tolda of The Beautiful Struggler read the WaPo profile of Helena Andrews with a tightness in her chest. While surprised at the backlash from the fellas, that the ladies seemed to fall into two camps was even more suprising. The sisters seemed to fall into two camps. Many expressed feelings of solidarity and shared…