Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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AKAs: Get Your Girl Post Haste
From NBC Washington: Members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority are attempting to fire their national president, Barbara McKinzie, after McKinzie allegedly used sorority money to commission a $900,000 “living legacy wax figure” of herself. Sometimes, this stuff just writes itself. Eight Alpha Kappa Alpha members filed a lawsuit in the D.C. Superior Court on June…
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Has Schwarzenegger Lost His Mind?
While Obama, Gates and Crowley prepare to knock back a brewsky and solve American race relations, Governor Schwarzenegger is out in Cali acting like a complete Republican, right-wing, lost-his-mind, somebody-slap-him-into-the-middle-of-next-week gangster. I understand my home away from home state of California is under some mammoth budgetary pressure, but Schwarzenegger’s recent veto and budget cuts look…
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Nigeria Tracking Down Islamist Fighters While the Block Cools Down a Bit
From Al Jazeera: Nigerian troops and police are hunting for the remnants of Boko Haram, an Islamist group that went on a killing spree in the country’s north. At least 30 people were killed in fresh clashes between security forces and the group the northern state of Yobe on Wednesday, a police source said. “Thirty have…
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UPDATED VIDEO: Generally Speaking: Colin Powell on Arrest of Dr. Gates
Due to some “spirited” commentary, The Buzz is posting the longer version of the interview. We thought Powell’s critique of Dr. Gates was clear in the clip originally posted, but after hearing several whispers of conspiracy and collusion, it appears that was not the case. Below is the video in which Colin Powell further makes…
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12-Year-Old Boston Girl Hit By Stray Bullet
From NewsOne: The police commissioner promised a 12-year-old Dorchester girl hit in the leg from a stray bullet from an AK-47 last night that he’ll track down the thug responsible. “She’s not in any pain right now, but she’s clearly afraid,” said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis after his visit to the girl’s house this…
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Fix Your Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes
It’s tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees’ e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash to TechCrunch, which has since published notes from meetings in which Twitter execs discussed their very lofty…
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A Black and Tan on Tap at the White House
If there’s a silver lining to the otherwise cloudy controversy surrounding the arrest of The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., it’s that when Gates and Crowley meet President Barack Obama at the White House for a beer Thursday, it’ll be the ultimate race-relations role reversal. Instead of a black emissary like Booker T.…
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Why Can’t Ads Get Black Women Right?
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring…
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Live From Washington, It's Urban Affairs
After weeks of uncertainty and anticipation, the White House Office of Urban Affairs has rolled off the assembly line. The office is designed to facilitate and coordinate programs that improve the lives of city dwellers, from the food served in urban classrooms to the bolts that gird subway lines. President Barack Obama has finally addressed…
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Ten Beers Likely To Impede Racial Harmony
President Barack Obama has invited Dr. Henry “Skip” Gates and Sgt. James Crowley to the White House to have a beer and hash out their differences behind Crowley arresting Gates for disorderly conduct a couple weeks back. Normally, this is where you would cue the laughter, but it’s no joke. Skip’s drinking Red Stripe, Crowley’s…