Whoopi Goldberg’s Comments On “The View” About Iran Sparked Online Outrage
Why Black Folks Who Did Not Know Juneteenth Was A Thing Until Biden Said So …Need Their Black Card Revoked
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Is The End Near For The Black Middle Class?
Have we reached the end of the road for the black middle class? Barbara Ehrenreich, president of United Professionals, a non-partisan and non profit membership organization for white collar workers, argues such a position in a piece entitled, “The Economic Fallout Has Decimated the Black Middle Class.” In it Ehreneich along with Dedrick Muhammad, a…
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Are You Kidding? Bolt Breaks His Own World Record in 200M
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt continues to defy logic on what seems like a daily basis. From ESPN: BERLIN — Usain Bolt has set a world record of 19.19 seconds in the 200 meters at the world championships, adding to the gold he won in the 100. Exactly one year after taking gold at the Beijing Games…
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Ridge Claims He Was Pressured into Raising Terror Alerts
According to Paul Bedard of US News & World Report, former Department of Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has come clean about certain activities in the Bush White House. Ridge is deciding to spill some of the beans in his forthcoming tell-all ‘The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege…and How We Can Be Safe…
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'The Simpsons' Hit Angolan TV
Fresh off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Angola last week, the television show “The Simpsons” appears to be paying the less-than-democratic, oil-rich southern African nation a visit. Via McClatchy’s always-interesting “Somewhere in Africa” blog: America’s most dysfunctional cartoon family (OK, second most) is coming to TV screens in Angola, via the South African…
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Frizzy: A Nicer Word than 'Nappy'
From the NY Times: ANTHONY DICKEY’S much anticipated salon, Hair Rules New York — an earthy-industrial space with high ceilings and oversize windows — opened last month in Hell’s Kitchen. The salon, which Mr. Dickey operates with his business partner, Kara Young Georgiopoulos, specializes in curly, frizzy and otherwise texture-challenged hair. It is the kind…
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The Internet Can End Your Job Search
In a sure sign of the times, forty-five percent of employers reported in a recent CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to research job candidates. That’s quite a leap from the 22 percent who reported the same the previous year. And just so we’re clear that this is a lasting trend another 11…
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It Be Like That, Plax
Robert Littal of Black Sports Online feels as though Plaxico Burress is catching a raw deal, and outlines ten facts that are germane in the incident and why he feels the two years in jail seems too harsh a penalty. While I think he makes a few fair points, I have to disagree with Mr.…
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Karrine's Vixen Manual
If you’re unfamiliar with gossip of the rap underworld and don’t read tabloid coverage of Bill Maher, you probably don’t even know who Karrine Steffans is, even though she’s sold three popular books and appeared on Oprah, Bill O’Reilly, and Geraldo. Her first two best-selling publications were juicy hip-hop tell-alls, but with her latest book,…
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Somali Forces Retake Town
From Al Jazeera: Pro-government forces in Somalia have recaptured the southwestern town of Luq, which had been controlled by al-Shabab, officials say. The town, claimed on Wednesday, is the second taken by government troops as Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Somalia’s president, seeks to crush opposition fighters. Colonel Mohamed Osman Weli told the AFP news agency that…
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BREAKING: Plaxico Burress Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
From the AP: NEW YORK — Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and agreed to a two-year prison term for accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub. The ex-wide receiver pleaded guilty Thursday morning to one count of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, a lesser charge than he…