By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - RCMP made an arrest on Parliament Hill shortly before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama for a six-hour visit. Few details were immediately available, but a police spokesman said the arrest was made after a ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 3:28PM
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Today, I signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. This is a historic step -- the first of many as we work together to climb out of this crisis -- and I want to thank you for your resolve and your support.
You organized thousand ...
Posted Wednesday, February 18th 2009 at 3:50AM
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By BRIAN STELTER
February 16, 2009
Reacting to an online swell of suspicion about changes to Facebook’s terms of service, the company’s chief executive moved to reassure users on Monday that the users, not the Web site, “own and control their in ...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 1:57PM
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What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket? That's the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain's largest owners) had shared its bailou ...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 1:42PM
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O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, former teammates and rivals with the Los Angeles Lakers, were briefly reunited Sunday evening, leading the West to a 146-119 victory over the East in the N.B.A. All-Star Game.
They laughed and passed, danced and dunked, and ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 2:25PM
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2008 BET Awards
Upcoming albums
Maxwell's next project is his fourth album Black Summers' Night. On his myspace Maxwell states that it is a trilogy of albums released over three years, starting in 2009 with Black. The second album, Summers' coming ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 7:30AM
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A British court last week ordered American actor/comedienne Eddie Murphy to pay former Spice Girl Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown a total of 7 million pounds (roughly $9.9 million) in child support for Brown’s 22-month old daugh ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 6:36AM
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Halle Berry
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Black Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry says in effect she gave up on Black men and decided to find love with white Canadian Gabriel Aubrey. In an interview for the March issue of Essence magazine, the m ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 6:23AM
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February 7
*William Monroe Trotter was born on this date in 1872. He was perhaps the most militant of the known civil rights activist of the 19th century. An honor student from Boston, Trotter was the first Black member of Phi Beta Kappa. Between 1 ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2009 at 12:11PM
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(Taylor Media Services) The recession continued its jobs-destroying grip on the American economy last month. According to data released by the Labor Department Friday, the nation’s unemployment rate jumped from 7.2 percent to 7.6 percent in January ...
Posted Monday, February 9th 2009 at 5:33PM
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On December 8th, 17-year-old Billey Joe Johnson died from a gunshot wound to the head. Police say he killed himself with a shotgun after being stopped for a simple traffic violation in Lucedale, Mississippi.1 Several things seem to cast doubt on the ...
Posted Friday, February 6th 2009 at 4:30PM
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>Secret messages in the form of quilt patterns aided slaves escaping the bonds of captivity in the Southern states before and during the American Civil War.
>Most quilt patterns had their roots in the African traditions the slaves brought with th ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 11:50PM
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Go Steelers But What About those Commercials! (((LoL)))
http://ca.video.yahoo.com/network/100076996?v=4409180&l=5499020 ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 11:37AM
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Born in USA!!!
BORN IN THE U.S.A.
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was bor ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2009 at 8:21PM
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The Obamas Are Bringing Sexy Back To Marriage
...They Flirt...
The Obamas tease each other in interviews, touch each other affectionately (sometimes on the posterior), and aren’t afraid of the occasional hot date. “Not to be crass, but you could ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2009 at 10:52AM
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Apparently, fallen R&B star D’Angelo needs as much help as he can get to restart his music career: D’Angelo’s long anticipated album received a title and a surprising collaboration with ‘the purple one’ this week -- Prince! According to a statement f ...
Posted Thursday, January 29th 2009 at 10:27AM
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — When Suffolk County prosecutors charged seven teenagers in the deadly assault on Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, in Patchogue, on Long Island, last November, one of the more disturbing accusations was that they engaged in a ...
Posted Thursday, January 29th 2009 at 8:08AM
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January 16
*Aaliyah was born on this date in 1979. She was an African-American singer and actress.
She was born Aaliyah Haughton in Brooklyn, relocating to Detroit, she moved there when she was a young girl. Aaliyah began performing at a young age ...
Posted Monday, January 26th 2009 at 8:44AM
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January 22
Sam Cooke
*On this date in 1935, Sam Cooke was born. He was an African-American songwriter and performer.
One of eight sons of a Baptist minister, Cooke grew up in Chicago, Illinois. In 1951, he became lead vocalist of the group The ...
Posted Thursday, January 22nd 2009 at 5:35AM
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Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/ ...
Posted Wednesday, January 21st 2009 at 4:28PM
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