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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Many Missing After Boat Capsizes Off Turks and Caicos
From Al Jazeera: At least 85 people are missing in open water off the Turks and Caicos islands after a boat with up to 200 Haitian migrants on board capsized, killing at least two, the US coast guard has said.Authorities rescued 113 survivors from reefs about 3.7km southeast of West Caicos island after the boat sank late on Monday, Jennifer Johnson,…
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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest
The Queen of England asked a simple question: Why didn’t any of you ninny’s see the worst recession in several decades coming? As a result, a group of economists wrote to the Queen directly trying to explain why no one had enough foresight to predict the timing, extent, and severity of the global economic crisis.…
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An Equal and Opposite Overreaction
Lawd, have muh-cy, we are going down that road again. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was right when he said that his nasty run-in with the Cambridge police would trigger a “racial narrative.” It’s the same one that has been unreeled since the videotaped beating of Rodney King, the trial of O.J. Simpson and the shooting…
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UPDATE: Sotomayor Passes Preliminary Confirmation Vote
From CNN: Judge Sonia Sotomayor passed preliminary confirmation by the senate judicial committee, 13-6. Sen. Lindsey Graham was the lone Republican ‘yea’ vote. Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation process now moves on to the Senate.
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Michael Jackson's Death: Addiction or Dr. Conrad Murray?
The news is out: Michael Jackson’s on-site physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered the drug Propofol that killed the King of Pop. So now what? Most of us figured this out the day of Michael’s death anyway. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t care. I know that may sound insensitive or unAmerican [you…
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The Gates Case Roundup
Mistaken identity? The woman’s statement — corroborated by the police commissioner — means that much of the media commentary over the last week about the incident has been based on a faulty premise: that the police report is accurate. Moreover, tapes of the 911 call were released midday Monday. “One thing the tapes didn’t show:…
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Cheers! Here's to 'De-Escalation'
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief White House spokesman says a Thursday meeting among the president, a Harvard University scholar and the policeman who arrested him will be “about having a beer and de-escalation.” Robert Gibbs says the session, weather permitting, is planned for a picnic table outside the Oval Office. According to Gibbs, “The president…
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Nadya Suleman Steals a Page from Joe Jackson's Pimp Chronicles
From the LA Times: “An Orange County judge has agreed to appoint a guardian to examine the finances of Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman’s 14 children. A child-labor activist has filed suit against Suleman in Orange County Superior Court, alleging that video shot of her children violates a law aimed at protecting child entertainers from overwork.…
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Woman Dismembers Infant Son, Eats Brain
From NewsOne: A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said Monday. Otty Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the death…
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Clinton to Get Up with Somali President
From Al Jazeera: “The US secretary of state plans to meet the president of Somalia’s transitional government during a seven-nation trip to Africa next week, the State Department has said. Hillary Clinton will meet Sheikh Sharif Ahmed on the sidelines of an annual trade forum with sub-Saharan countries, which will be held in Nairobi, Kenya’s…