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Pulpit Pimps?
Founder of 30,000-member New Birth Missionary Baptist Church just outside of Atlanta. His virulent homophobia and $250,000 Easter services in the Georgia Dome have garnered him yearly pay of up to $5 million and made him a pastor revered by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. Long gives back to the community via his…
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Shaft Who? Common is "Dow Jones"
Thought there weren’t anymore ways to make being broke seem hilarious? Guess again. Funny or Die and rapper Common team up to tell the story of a super bad brotha out to get the bankers who did him wrong. Don’t mess with Dow Jones: He’ll put you in debt.
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Mike Tyson's Daughter in Critical Condition after Accident
Mike Tyson’s Daughter in Critical Condition after Accident Bossip reports that Mike Tyson’s 4-year old daughter Exodus is on life support and in “extremely critical condition” after an accident involving a treadmill. It appears the child became entangled in a cord that hangs beneath the machine’s console and was unable to free herself. Her brother found her…
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Nothing to Be Cavalier About Tonight
Almost two weeks ago, the Orlando Magic were teetering on the brink of elimination, and big-time doubts rose about the structure of their offense. Now, with a win on Tuesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers, they will be one game away from the NBA finals. It’s a dramatic turnaround, yet the Magic aren’t doing anything…
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor is Not a "Latina Single Mother"
President Barack Obama has nominated Second Circuit Federal Appeals Court justice Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court. Swapping out his previous formulation, that a potential justice ought to embrace “empathy,” Obama stressed “experience” in his assessment of what was needed on the Court: It is experience that can give a person a…
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor Nominated for Supreme Court
President Obama this morning will nominate U.S. appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, White House officials said. If confirmed, Sotomayor, 54, would be the first Supreme Court justice of Hispanic descent and only the third woman ever to sit on the panel.…
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Misogyny and the Anti-Christ at Cannes
Filmmaker Lars von Trier, the master-provocateur behind the racially-charged Manderlay with Danny Glover, has caused a major stir at the Cannes Film Festival. A major, major stir. His latest film is called Antichrist. The story follows a grieving couple, William Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who take a trip to a cabin in the woods to…
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Sotomayor is President's Choice for Supreme Court
Obama to Nominate Sotomayor for Supreme Court President Obama likes making history. The Associated Press is reporting that Obama will nominate Sonia Sotomayor, a US Circuit Judge to succeed Supreme Court Justice David Souter on the bench upon his retirement. Sotomayor, 54, is the first Hispanic to be nominated for a seat on the high court. Should the nomination…
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Obama Stumps GOP With Sotomayor
President Obama hit a home run by nominating Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court because the GOP cannot really oppose her on the so-called “merits” without, to be candid, looking ridiculous. Consider this: Sotomayor is from poor working-class roots. Her father died when she was 9. She worked her way to and through the nation’s…
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Shots Fired in Chicago
My teenage son is a college student in Chicago, where so far this school year at least 36 children and teens have been murdered, a rate of about one a week. It is a sad story only made sadder because the hopelessness of the situation shares the same geographic and psychic space as the enormous…