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Education in Da 'Hood
The back to school daze is upon us, so I thought it particularly timely that Michelle Obama would be out talking about education in black communities. It’s a sticky wicket with a lot at stake, to be sure. The White House wants to throw money at the problem, but you can throw all the loot…
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Skee-Weeeeee Don't Play That!
From NewsOne: Members of the nation’s oldest black sorority are alleging more financial misdeeds by their president, who is already accused of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group’s money on questionable expenses, including a wax statue of herself. Eight members of Alpha Kappa Alpha filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court in…
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Rep. Barney Frank Chastises Obama-Nazi Remark
It’s absolutely hilarious that a Dartmouth College student would walk into a town hall meeting with a picture of Obama defaced like Hitler. It’s down right radical that Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank refused to engage in a conversation with the student who compared Obama’s health care policy to a Nazi policy. It made my day…
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Odds Not In His Favre
One of the best bits of advice that I have heard about retiring came from legendary college football announcer Keith Jackson. He said, in what was to be his last game in the broadcast booth, “if you want to leave at the appropriate time, then plan on leaving early.” Of course, Jackson didn’t follow his…
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76-Year Old MD Man Beaten While He Fished
From the AP: BALTIMORE — Three white men shouting racial slurs beat a 76-year-old black man while he was fishing in a river early Tuesday, said Baltimore police, who were investigating the attack as a hate crime. The assailants also stole the man’s sport-utility vehicle, said Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman. Police caught up with…
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Obama Feeling Good about Mideast Peace Chances
From the Washington Post: Acknowledging that the Middle East peace process is in a “rut,” President Obama nonetheless voiced confidence Tuesday that a breakthrough can be achieved — and he thanked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whom he hosted for meetings at the White House, for playing a constructive role. “There has been movement in the…
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Another Chance for Troy Davis
Troy Davis, whose death row case has won the support of international luminaries from Susan Sarandon to Jimmy Carter to Desmond Tutu, has faced near-execution many times. And each time he’s been granted a last-minute delay—last fall’s stay came just two hours before Davis was scheduled to die. On Monday, the Georgia man was granted…
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Passing The Buck Past The Bank
Despite the city of New York being recognized as the banking capital of the world, 12 percent of all households in the city still do not have a bank account. That’s 4 percentage points above the national average, according to recent data by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Though there has been considerable effort to lessen the…
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Will Obama's Public Option Punk Out End Up Passing Health Reform?
On the heels of Jack White’s breast-beating cry for Barack Obama to stop punking out on health care reform, it’s worth reposting “The Daily Show”‘s equally impassioned cry for Obama to do the same: It’s understandable that progressive-minded Americans might want the president to show a little Bush-era salesmanship, and start acting like the party…
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Uh…Word? Rodney King to Box. A Cop.
From Deadspin: King, perhaps having gained experience from his unsanctioned LAPD-rules handicap match, will be joining the celebrity boxing circuit with a bout against a former police officer. This will be handled with the utmost class, I’m sure. He’ll be taking on Simon Aouad, a former Chester County (PA.) cop who was busted a few…