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VIDEO: Healthcare Lacks for Haiti's Expectant Mothers
From Al Jazeera: Every year more than half a million women across the world die while giving birth, most of them from developing countries. In Haiti, women suffer from the highest maternal mortality rate in the Western hemisphere. Violence, political chaos and insufficient international aid have hampered even the most basic healthcare.Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo…
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Should Plax's Stupidity Keep Him from Playing Ball?
From the Washington Post: Not surprisingly, a New York grand jury indicted Plaxico Buress on weapons charges Monday. Mr. Burress will most certainly be sent to jail. It’s just a matter of how long he’ll have to stay. Clearly, there is no need to debate the New York State laws; they are what they are…
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The Juice Still Has Shake: Court Considers Releasing Simpson
From NewsOne: A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices focused Monday on whether O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy received a fair trial in a gunpoint hotel room heist and whether the case was so unique that the two men should be freed from prison while their appeals are considered. “This is post-conviction. That’s…
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Naomi Sims, the First Black 'Supermodel', Dead at 61
From Examiner: The first African American model to grace the cover of ‘Ladies Home Journal’ has died of cancer at age 61. She has also been dubbed the first African American ‘supermodel.’ She was born in Mississippi and grew up as a foster child in Pittsburgh. Sims modeled in the late 1960s, and according to…
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The Ayatollah: "Yay, Ahmadinejad!"; Critics: "Nah, Son. Nah."
From BBC: Senior Iranian political figures appear to have snubbed the formal endorsement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was among those not at Monday’s ceremony, state TV said. Another former president, Mohammad Khatami, was also absent, as were defeated election candidates Mir Hossein…
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Another Arrest in Harvard Murder Case
From NewsOne: A man arrested in a deadly shooting inside a Harvard University dormitory has been taken from a Manhattan court in handcuffs to face first-degree murder charges in Massachusetts. Jason Aquino waived extradition at his arraignment Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court. He was arrested Thursday at his Manhattan home. His attorney didn’t immediately return…
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New HIV Strain Discovered in Cameroonian Woman
From Al Jazeera: A new strain of the virus that causes Aids has been discovered in a woman from the West African nation of Cameroon. The virus strain appears to come from gorillas but researchers said the woman has likely been infected by another human, not an animal. “We have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus…
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Making School Cool
It was the sort of conversation writers dream of stumbling upon. Walking my clothes back home from the laundromat, I ended up behind two young men from Brooklyn — both of them black, male and no older than 19. They were engaged in a discussion about higher education, the best part of which went like…
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The Real Affirmative Action Babies
Last Sunday, veteran Washington Post journalist Juan Williams and conservative author Shelby Steele wrote two opposing op-eds on the pending death of affirmative action. Williams opined that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was too optimistic when she predicted that affirmative action, born with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, had at most 25 more years to…