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Monday's Headlines
Black Enterprise: Top Republicans Want to Let Some Banks Fail; So Does Buzz and Everyone Else The Daily Mail: Longevity Linked to Body’s Reaction Time; Why Blacks Don’t Live Forever Unknown The Huffington Post: PM of Zimbabwe Involved In Car Accident, Wife Killed The Chicago Tribune: Consumers Willing to Make Sojourn to Buy Black Black…
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The Coolout Corner
Young, Gifted, and Black – Donny Hathaway I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt Roots Rock Reggae – Bob Marley & The Wailers The Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel Castles Made of Sand – Jimi Hendrix I Keep Forgetting – Michael McDonald Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley Family Reunion – The O’Jays…
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Headlines: The Week in Review
The New York Times: AIG Set to Get Another $30B, Failing Up Is “The New Black” The Washington Post: Judge Rules In Favor of Campaign Benefactor, Question Raised As To Whether He Ruled Impartially The Los Angeles Times: Granddaughter of Slave Becomes Chief Judge of U.S. District Court in LA BBC: Guinea-Bissau President Shot Dead…
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Friday's Headlines
The Daily Beast: Stanley Crouch Ethers Michael Steele, Et al; Steele Apology Probably Forthcoming The Daily Telegraph: Obama Gives British PM Brown DVDs, England Salty LandlineTV: Michael Steele: Hip-Hop Rethuglican LandlineTV: Don’t Understand Obama’s Budget? Get Stimulated Forexhound: Black Unemployment Rose in February, No Longer Considered Month All God’s Children Work USA Today: Black Leaders…
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Does Steele Need Limbaugh?
The big wins posted by Democrats at the polls in November led to an all-out culture war within the Republican Party. Since then, the party has sought to redefine itself, re-imagine its purpose and reinvigorate its followers in order to be competitive again in 2010. So far, not so much. But one of the important…
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Can you be arrested while serving time?
Ingmar Guandique is serving time for attacks on two women at knifepoint. And now an arrest warrant has been issued for him in the highly publicized case involving Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old former federal government intern whose body was found in the same park where Guandique’s two attacks occurred. Can you be arrested if you’re…
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The Last Word on 'The L Word'
The L Word was must-see TV in my household. My husband and I faithfully tuned in for six seasons, occasionally throwing pillows at the screen in disgust, slapping hand-to-head over the lunacy of Jenny, the conniving pscho-beeyotch from hell. What’s not to like? It was Dolce & Gabbana glam. (The clothes! The clothes!) It had…
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
About four years ago, I and a friend were robbed at gunpoint leaving the Washington, D.C. club Love. It was Howard Homecoming time, the club was located near the projects, we shouldn’t have parked where we did … you can guess what happened next. I wasn’t really afraid. The second I got back to my friend’s…
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Obama Pulls Our Head Out of Scientific Sand
It’s easy to forget—with the global economy ground to a halt and all—just how much the Bush crowd jammed up the gears of science, too. But President Obama reminded us of the fact yesterday when he lifted the Bush-era ban on funding for stem cell research. Obama used soaring language to mark the moment in…
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Van Jones to Lead Green Jobs Recovery Effort
Green news wires are reporting that Van Jones, longtime social justice activist and green jobs advocate, has been tapped as a “green jobs czar” for the Obama administration—though a White House aide counsels that that title is not entirely accurate. The White House Council on Environmental Quality confirms that such a position has been filled…