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A Buzz world premiere: The Buzzku. It’s like a haiku, but topical. Waterboarding’s bad Pulitzer’s good for the Post Earth Day Makes Black Green MONDAY USAT: +10: Columbine Survivors Remember Madness a Decade Later NYT: Prisoner Waterboarded 183 Times; CIA: “If at First You Don’t Succeed…” HP: Some Give Prez a FAIL Over CIA Treatment;…

The salaries of all NBA, NFL and MLB players combine for an annual payroll of about $57 billion. Now, keep in mind that 80 percent of the players in the NBA, 70 percent of the players in the NFL and 8.4 percent in Major League Baseball are black. When you do the math, roughly $33.25…

HP: Still Very Real in the Field: 60 Dead Today in Iraq GDN: US Will Set Up Facebook Page, Tag Themselves in Prison Abuse Photos AJE: According to UN, Nearly 6,500 Killed in Sri Lankan Civil in Three Months WP: Ford Burns Less Cash, Only Posts $1.4B Loss (Take That, Recession!) AP: Myrtle Beach Wildfires…

Nat King Cole died, too soon, in February 1965, of lung cancer at the age of 45. He left behind a body of work that embraces the American songbook and exotic rhythms outside America, and it continues to endear him to millions. An archetype of sleek, musical cool, Cole’s influence remains, to borrow a word,…

These days, as the newspaper industry continues to tank, Hollywood, after years of a love (All the President’s Men) and hate (Absence of Malice) relationship with the press, is now serving up a new romantic hero: the print journalist. We saw Russell Crowe take on the mantle in State of Play, and now, in The…

Football fans going through withdrawal pains get a much needed fix this weekend when the madcap mayhem known as the NFL draft arrives to dominate center stage of the sports world. What with hours upon hours already spent on draft previews and mock drafts, as well as round the clock coverage on ESPN, the draft…

CNN: Bombings Kill More Than 70 in Iraq WP: Obama to Host Credit Card CEO, Lay Smack Down BB: US to BofA: ‘You Will Take This Merrill Or We Will Have a Problem’ VOA: Supreme Court to Hears Reverse Discrimination Case Against CT Fire Dept. BET: Don’t Pass the Collection Plate! Pastor’s $600K Salary Causes…

Baye Adofo-Wilson grew up in Paterson, N.J., about 20 minutes away from the rough and tumble of Newark, a city in constant need of rehabilitation and revitalization. In 1999, he took an interest in Newark’s Lincoln Park Coast neighborhood, an area that had been home to black artists and jazz music, and started the Lincoln…

April is usually a busy time for Brenda Palms-Barber. Bee season has started and that means tending to the beehives owned by her 2-year-old organization, Sweet Beginnings, LLC. What’s unique about Palms-Barber’s bees is that they are urban-raised, creating their honeycombs in the heart of Chicago. Once their honey is ripe, Palms-Barber and her employees…