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2012 Campaign: Who Is Katherine Archuleta?
I’ll admit: Last week when the Obama 2012 re-election campaign announced its new political director, I thought: “Who?” But even if the president’s pick, Katherine Archuleta, doesn’t yet have national name recognition, she’s certainly a strong political operative: 1. She’s the chief of staff to Secretary Hilda Solis in the U.S. Department of Labor. 2.…
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Miami Police Accused of Destroying Evidence of Memorial Day Shooting
In a new development in the racially charged controversy surrounding the deadly shootings by police officers at Miami’s Annual Memorial Day Urban Beach Week Festival, the Miami Herald reports that a couple who filmed the incident has accused officers of intimidation, destroying evidence and twisting the facts. Narces Benoit and his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, told…
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Black AIDS Institute and NAACP Grade U.S. Presidents' Responses to AIDS
During the 30-year fight against AIDS, several U.S. presidents have been faced with tackling the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic — and according to the Black AIDS Institute and the NAACP, not all have risen to the occasion. In the report 30 Years Is Enuf! the two organizations graded five presidents from the last three decades —…
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Twitter: Bin Laden's Alleged Ex-Lover and Rapper Wale Feud
Fresh from our “You’ve gotta whole lotta nerve” file, Osama bin Laden’s former mistress Kola Boof has taken to Twitter to attack rapper Wale for perpetuating dominant standards of beauty in his music video for “Pretty Girls,” calling him self-loathing. John Hudson reports that Boof went slap-off on Wale, who is Nigerian and from Washington,…
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Fox News Chief Pushing N.J. Gov. Christie
A lengthy cover story in New York magazine makes the argument that Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News, badly wants to play Republican kingmaker for the 2012 presidential election and that his ideal candidate is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “A few months ago, Ailes called Chris Christie and encouraged him to jump into the…
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Arnold's Ex-Housekeeper Loses Anonymity
“In reporting the ongoing fallout from Schwarzenegger’s affair with the former housekeeper who gave birth to his child, has the press unduly invaded the privacy of Schwarzenegger’s one-time paramour?” Joe Pompeo wrote Thursday for Yahoo. “Some major news organizations have exercised restraint, declining to publish the names, photos or any other revealing details about the…
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The Hot Un-Ghetto Mess!
In California, ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger destroys his family by revealing that he had a love child with the housekeeper. In New York City, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is arrested for an alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid. In Washington, D.C., Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich runs up a…
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We Get It: Black People Like Twitter
Apparently black folks are terribly interesting. I mean, everything we do is fascinating. The way we vote. The way we dance. The way we apparently don’t say “muthaf—-er” when we’re asking for a glass of iced tea. We’re just so fascinating. So when black Americans started using the social media service Twitter, a slew of…
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Will Strauss-Kahn Sex-Assault Charge Spark Global Power Shift?
Imagine that you’re one of the most powerful men on the planet, flying first class to Paris on Air France out of the pristine and elegant Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Then imagine cops barging into the champagne-and-cashews atmosphere of the first-class cabin just before the doors shut to escort…
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Miss Wisconsin USA Charged With Identity Theft, Loses Title
Twenty-six year-old Shaletta Porterfield, Miss Wisconsin USA, resigned her position on Friday after being charged with three counts of identity fraud. Porterfield allegedly faked the signatures of three business owners’ contracts for advertising with a marketing company she worked for last summer. The businesses became suspicious when they were asked to approve ads that they…