From Newsweek.com
January 18, 2010
Michael Jackson’s death has been officially ruled as murder, it was revealed today.
The cause of death on the 50-year-old’s death certificate has been amended to 'homicide' after months of speculation.
Accor ...
Posted Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 2:30PM
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ROME – In a synagogue visit haunted by history, Pope Benedict XVI and Jewish leaders sparred Sunday over the record of the World War II-era pope during the Holocaust and agreed on the need to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations.
Both sides said t ...
Posted Monday, January 18th 2010 at 9:21AM
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince’s destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse.
“Why ...
Posted Sunday, January 17th 2010 at 2:12PM
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From Alternet.org
January 16, 2010
Poetic justice is a beautiful thing. Republican Party grandees were all set to use Michael Steele in the most cynical way. Now it's becoming clear that Steele has been using the users all along.
Republicans ...
Posted Sunday, January 17th 2010 at 2:00PM
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According to NewsOne/Blackplanet polls, most Black people say the word “Negro” itself doesn’t offend them — that is, unless it’s being uttered by a white person.
In recent weeks, “Negro” has unexpectedly been granted a second life. Once the widely ...
Posted Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at 1:18PM
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James Pastman was arrested this morning in Chicago's Far North Side after police found that he had been growing marijuana in his home. The legal trouble gets worse for Pastman, 50: his apartment is right above a preschool.
A dog barking out an ope ...
Posted Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at 11:58AM
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SELF ESTEEM
Brace yourself child
It's a moment of lies
Don't sell yourself cheap
It brings tears to your eyes
You let others tell you
What is best for you
And let go of dreams
For dreams of them too
You look in the mirror
At ...
Posted Monday, January 11th 2010 at 4:49PM
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A Fairy told a married couple, "For being such an exemplary married couple
for 35 years, I will give you each a wish". "I want to travel around the
world with my dearest husband" said the wife. And the fairy moved her magic
stick and abracadabra! ...
Posted Sunday, January 10th 2010 at 9:33PM
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CAIRO (Reuters) – New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday.
Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in ...
Posted Sunday, January 10th 2010 at 9:12PM
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More than 100 protesters demanding justice for a Bay Area man shot to death by a BART police officer on New Year's Day last year converged on a downtown Los Angeles courthouse today for the first proceedings since the racially charged case was moved ...
Posted Saturday, January 9th 2010 at 9:02PM
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Washington (CNN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Saturday following reports he had privately described then-candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign as a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his “lig ...
Posted Saturday, January 9th 2010 at 8:59PM
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While law schools added about 3,000 seats for first-year students from 1993 to 2008, both the percentage and the number of black and Mexican-American law students declined in that period, according to a study by a Columbia Law School professor.
W ...
Posted Friday, January 8th 2010 at 3:30PM
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From BlackAmericaWeb (By Tom Joyner)
As we get closer to Christmas, New Year’s and Kwanzaa and prepare for two weeks off for vacation, my plan was for this blog to reflect on some of the biggest stories of 2009. On my list was President Obama’s in ...
Posted Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 3:49PM
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Washington (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence has had considerable success, but that the botched Christmas Day attack shows "the system has failed" in a major way.
"When a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with ...
Posted Wednesday, January 6th 2010 at 2:15PM
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Don't expect Mayor Ray Nagin to start holding his tongue just because his tenure at New Orleans City Hall is nearing an end.
Nagin, whose penchant for provocative commentary is well-documented, was at full throttle Thursday as he sat down for an i ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 3:49PM
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NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama.
In a court filing Monday, a Secret Service agent said 47-year-old John Turnpaugh dialed 911 early last Friday and told a police dispatch ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 3:13PM
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OAKLAND, California, 22 Dec (IPS) - It began with Apr. 15 Tax Day protests as thousands rallied in a number of cities across the country.
It continued on into the summer with raucous town hall meetings and gun-toting anti-Barack Obama demonstrator ...
Posted Monday, January 4th 2010 at 12:01PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 3, 2009
In November 2008, I stood in a bar in Kenya watching Barack Obama give his victory speech. From the wild cheering of the crowd on TV, and his repeated appeals to them personally—"You said," "You heard," "You call ...
Posted Monday, January 4th 2010 at 11:37AM
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A US prison guard who acknowledged being a member of white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has been fired for belonging to a subversive or terrorist organisation, a violation of the county agency's code of ethics.
Wayne Kerschner, an Alachua Co ...
Posted Sunday, January 3rd 2010 at 6:02PM
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Early research suggests that wearing a cell phone on your hip may weaken the area of the pelvis widely used for bone grafting.
Using an X-ray technique used in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with osteoporosis, researchers from Turkey's S ...
Posted Sunday, January 3rd 2010 at 5:55PM
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