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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Veterans Need More Than Just A Holiday
On the day we honor those who have served in the military, let us reflect on the nearly 2,300 men and women who didn’t have to die last year. These veteran deaths are not attributed to service in the ongoing conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan. According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School,…
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Fort Hood: Who Messed Up?
Questions swirl in the days following the deadly shooting at Ft. Hood and people are getting their pointing fingers ready. The main question: Who failed where and how did it happen? From the Washington Post: [F]inger-pointing in Washington intensified Tuesday about whether officials at several agencies had failed to coordinate as they tracked the suspect’s…
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Chicago Woman Charged with Murder After Running Teen Over with Car
Timera Branch’s son got in a fight and, as any parent might, she felt the need to intervene. Branch, 33, did so one night later by finding John Keyes—the boy who’d fought with her son—and running him down with her car as he tried to run away. After having done so, she watched as people…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Battling Leukemia
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer is currently battling with chronic myeloid leukemia that was diagnosed last December. From ESPN: “Abdul-Jabbar is taking an oral medication for the disease. He is a paid spokesman for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which makes a drug that treats the illness. “I’ve never been a person to…
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Check It Out: Obama Honors Fallen at Fort Hood
Obama honoring the thirteen soldiers killed at the Fort Hood. From MSNBC: “One by one, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories even as he denounced the “twisted logic” that led to their deaths. “No faith justifies…
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What’s Islam Got to Do With It?
Long before bloggers were given front-row seats at Milan Fashion Week, or the president took questions from a blogger at the White House, two writers from the online Underground News Network scored press passes to cover the trial of the D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad. The Web site’s editors followed some teachings of Islam and…
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Why Black People Took to the Streets in Chicago
The battle lines in the war over America’s financial future have been drawn. You probably missed it in the myopic 24-hour news cycle, but after two years of bailouts and green shoots, we’ve finally turned to the task of reforming Wall Street. And we’re likely to peer into history’s rearview mirror one day and realize…
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Dropped Call: White House Communications Director Steps Down
Anita Dunn is calling it quits. Dunn, the White communications director who made the (reasonable though regrettable) assertion that Fox News was a wing of the Republican Party, has stepped down from the position. Taking her place will be her deputy, Dan Pfeiffer. From the Washington Post: “Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant, took over…
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Check It Out: D.C. Sniper's Wife Speaks Out
While her ex-husband faces execution, Mildred Muhammad is out peddling her book, Scared Silent, about her life with John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper who killed ten people in the Washington, D.C., area. Muhammad has said that she felt a sense of guilt in connection with the slayings, believing that those people caught bullets meant…
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Done Saving Journalists, Clinton Takes to Hill to Talk Health Care
Former President Clinton is taking to Capitol Hill today to discuss health care reform with Senate Democrats and their independent colleagues. At a Tuesday lunch, Clinton is exptected to push for reform and discuss his own failed attempt at reform during his presidency: From CNN: “A notice obtained by CNN went out to Senate Democrats…