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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Regina Benjamin Tapped as Surgeon General
From CNN: “President Obama announced Monday he has chosen Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family practice doctor from the Gulf Coast, to serve as surgeon general. The rural family physician has long provided medical care on the Gulf Coast. In 1990, she founded Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in the fishing village of Bayou La…
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Live Stream: Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearing
Day one of Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings.
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Emotion Denied
It’s after midnight. You’re a summer intern at the right-wing American Solutions foundation drinking your fourth room-temperature Honest Tea agave maté of the day out of an old Mountain Dew bottle so that your colleagues don’t mistake you for some kind of new-age Republican peacenik. You’re trying to figure out how to turn Judge Sonia…
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So Fly: 15-Year Old Pilot Completes Cross-Country Voyage
From NewsOne: “A 15-year-old Los Angeles girl who navigated a single-engine Cessna through thunderstorms in Texas and took in breathtaking aerial views of Arizona’s sunsets landed her plane to cheering crowds at Compton Woodley Airport on Saturday. She is believed to be the youngest African American female pilot to fly solo across the country. Kimberly…
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Joe Jackson Wants to Put MJ's Kids on Tour
First Joe Jackson promotes his new record label during the BET tribute to his deceased son Michael. On Friday Joe Jackson told Good Morning America that his grandhildren, Paris and Blanket, have “talent” and could step into their dad’s footsteps. Now tabloid rumors are spreading that Joe’s trying to package Michael’s children as the Jackson…
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Philly Swim Club: 'Sorry for the Racis..er..Mix Up. Still Wanna Swim?'
From CNN: “A suburban Philadelphia swim club has invited children from a largely minority day-care center to come back after a June reversal that fueled allegations of racism against the club, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The development came during a hastily called Sunday afternoon meeting of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Club members…
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Where Are The Jobs?
Have you considered relocating in lieu of the job crunch? If so, you might want to pack your life up and haul yourself over to the Washington D.C. “urea.” According to a report by Indeed.com, the nation’s capital had 133 postings per 1,000 residents in the second quarter of 2009. Indeed.com is a broad job…
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VIDEO: Obama Speaks at Slave Fort in Ghana
Barack Obama rounded out his trip abroad with a stop in Accra, Ghana over the weekend. There, he spoke to the nation’s parliament and paid a visit to a maternal health clinic in Accra, before finishing up with a moving visit to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle—the point of no return for thousands upon thousands of…
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Sharing Too Much On Your Shirt
Walking back from the Staples Center memorial for Michael Jackson earlier this week, it was obvious that thanks to hundreds of urban entrepreneurs, all manifestations of Michael—from little brown boy to…well, to whoever he was at the end—would live on long after the last security cordon had been taken down. The brother had been well…
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Digging Up Grave Sites and Reselling the Plot = Not Tight
From Reuters: Four Chicago-area cemetery workers were accused on Thursday of digging up hundreds of graves and dumping the remains so the burial plots could be resold, prosecutors said on Thursday. The office manager and three grave diggers at the Burr Oak Cemetery in South suburban Alsip were charged with dismembering a human body, a…