Wednesday's Headlines

WP: Sisterhood of Powerful Black Women Coming to Fore in DC; Some Wear Sleeves, Others Don’t Suggested Reading Inside FKA Twigs, Shia LaBeouf’s Relationship Drama Why It Is So Hard to Believe These 15 Public Figures Face Accusations of Racism Amber Rose Wants White People to Be Able to Say the N-Word Without Consequence…Here’s Why…

WP: Sisterhood of Powerful Black Women Coming to Fore in DC; Some Wear Sleeves, Others Don’t

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Two alligators bang on a door at a Florida home and social media is going crazy

BBC: Can Catholicism Help Africa? The Buzz Is Gonna Take the Under on That

The Job: Yep, We’re in a Recession*

J&J: Women’s History Month Blurb on Angela Davis; Yes, It’s Women’s History Month

The Hill: AIG Employees—’We Deserve Our Coin’; Public Retorts with Sack of Nickels to the Mush

Bossip: Black Disney Princess Gets Jungle Fever; Buzz Uncertain ‘Jungle Fever’ Is PC Any Longer

Economist: Since the Fellas Have Clearly Screwed Up, Recession-Hit Co.’s Target Female Customers

AJE: Bashir Urges Rebels to Lay Down Arms, Says “You Know What the Alternative Is, Right”?

BET: Student Prevented from Wearing Obama Mask in Show; Robert Downey Jr. Flies to School in Protest

BG: Bush—Obama ‘Deserves My Silence’; Adds ‘It’s Not Like I Can Say S**t Anyway, Right’?

USAT: Obesity Can Trim Ten Years Off Life; Irony of Obesity ‘Trimming’ Not Lost on Buzz

BBC: US Iranian Policy Shaping Up; Israel Prepared to Hate Anything Not Involving Annihilation

AJE: Darfur Peacekeeper Shot Dead; Bashir’s ‘Sudanizing’ of Assassins Working Out Like Gangbusters

CNN: Family of Chimp Victim Want $50M; No One Asking Why Chimp Owner Had Chimp in Connecticut

ESPN: President Fills Out Tourney Bracket; Gov. Sanford Will Reject It from His Office Pool

Salon: Treasury Ready to Blame Chris Dodd Over AIG Bonuses; AIG in No Rush to Stop This

NYR: Remember Roland Burris? The Knucklehead? No? Don’t Worry, Jeffrey Toobin Does

DB: Where’s the Bailout for Publishing? Liberal Bias Doesn’t Write Itself You Know

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