Ananda Lewis, Television Host and Model, Dies Following a Long Breast Cancer Fight
Two Days Before Trial, Crucial Evidence is Lost in Decade-Old Cold Case
A Famous Supermodel Just Endorsed Blue Ivy’s On-Stage Catwalk
What’s Happening In Rockland, NY Could Be the Beginning of the End Of Trump’s Reign, Many Americans Believe
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Listen Up! Is Harry Reid Tough Enough?
Harry Reid has quite a task at hand. He’s refereeing a health care reform bill on which many are sharply divided.
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Bill Cosby Live at Lincoln Center: Humble? Hardly. Hilarious? Absolutely.
Bill Cosby is 72 years old. That’s the first thing he said in his stand-up routine at the packed opera house in New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall this past Saturday. In a burnt orange-colored sweater, brown corduroys and brown dress shoes, Cosby looked exactly his age. He also performed it, charmingly so. In a…
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Obama Says: Puff, Puff, Give a Pass
If you chief for medical purposes and live in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, the great state of Rhode Island, Vermont or Washington—states where such a thing is allowed for medical purposes—rest assured that President Obama won’t have the feds kicking your door down anytime soon. According to…
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Racial Nags and Other Weekend Fun
On Friday Ta-Nehisi Coates over at the Atlantic dug up Queen Latifah’s SNL Excedrin for Racial Tension clip. That popular faux commercial about the nagging pain that accompanies curiosity-driven whites. Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about. Those “can I touch your hair?” “do you wash your hair?” “where can I get…
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I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married
Is it me or do many people look at single women, who are in their thirties or beyond, as flawed pariahs? As in, there must be something wrong with them if they aren’t married. As if the primary goal of all women is to be married and if said goal isn’t achieved, they’re not just…
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Obama Gives a Pass on Medical Marijuana
President Obama takes a significant step towards legalizing marijuana by issuing a new policy on users and dealers of medical marijauna. I don’t partake and have never partaken, so I don’t have a dog in the race. But I hear alot about the benefits of smoking dope and often wonder what the legalization of the…
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UCONN Football Player Fatally Stabbed
UCONN cornerback Jasper Howard was stabbed following an incident outside a school-sponsored dance early Sunday morning. A fire alarm in the building where the function was being held was pulled and a fight broke out after the students had emptied. From CNN: Howard, a 20-year-old cornerback who started in every game for the team last…
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More Work, More Stress, More Fears For Mothers
Although countless media outlets have reported on the “mancession” – a phrase coined after evidence suggested that the recession has disproportionately hurt men – women aren’t exactly soaring either. A new study from Citi has shed light on what effects the recession has had on working women – namely mothers. Via U.S. News and World…
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Pressed for space
Maybe it’s something in the air, maybe the alleged beginning to the recession’s recovery is making people feverish to go out and spend money. Whatever it is, they are hella anxious to grab a parking space. Over the past week, I have seen three—count them, three—serious set-tos in parking lots. Person A is waiting for…
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Special Report: ‘Underground’ Pledging vs. ‘Membership Intake Process’
In Part 1 of a special 3-part series on Black Greek Letter Organization hazing, author Lawrence C. Ross Jr. on the physical and mental hazing that has injured (and in some cases, killed) scores of college students for decades. Pledging. For most black fraternity and sorority members initiated before 1990, pledging is when they formed…