A shocking 45 percent of the nation's estimated 131,000 homeless veterans are African-American, according to a new report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a well-known advocacy and research organization.
And, just as shocking, accordi ...
Posted Saturday, November 14th 2009 at 5:53PM
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From The Huffington Post
Printed on November 7, 2009
President Obama has had a hard time dislodging misperceptions about his health care proposal — those stubborn beliefs that there are death panels and free care for illegal aliens that don't act ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 12:48PM
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RIVER RIDGE, LOUISIANA--Two suspects have been arrested in the death of Paige DeJean, the 7-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet that ripped through the wall of her River Ridge apartment, authorities said today.
Andre Preston, 21, 428 Webster S ...
Posted Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 7:52PM
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WALTERBORO, S.C. — A South Carolina mother fruitlessly tried to shield her 20-month-old toddler from a barrage of bullets in a drive-by shooting that killed the baby and two adults and injured at least five others, relatives said Tuesday.
Relative ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 12:10PM
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Seven years ago this month, the captured Beltway snipers -- John Allen Muhammad, then 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 -- were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the W ...
Posted Monday, November 9th 2009 at 4:44PM
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Kordeza Zhelyazkova, an 11 year old girl from Bulgaria, just gave birth to her daughter, making her the world’s youngest mother. While Kordeza and the baby are healthy and in high spirits, Jeliazko, the 19 year old father of the child, now faces six ...
Posted Thursday, November 5th 2009 at 10:17PM
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A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face.
Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.
Jeziorkows ...
Posted Wednesday, November 4th 2009 at 10:38AM
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DETROIT — Hundreds of people offered hushed prayers Saturday at the funeral for a slain Detroit mosque leader while authorities across the border in Canada made the final two arrests in a criminal case that is stirring some anger in the Muslim commun ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 3:16PM
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SALT LAKE CITY – A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald’s has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city.
The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-through
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Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 3:12PM
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The death of Derrion Albert, a young man with a promising future, has stunned the city of Chicago and the nation. Captured via cell phone video, the violent assault that took the life of a good young man has likely been witnessed by thousands of peop ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 5:05PM
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A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home.
Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Anthony Sowell ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2009 at 7:36PM
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OXFORD, England — Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford.
Rolle, 22, established himself as an elite student and athlete at Florida State, ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 4:27PM
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I was reading a post on an Essence.com message board containing some reactions to Chris Rock's Good Hair movie and let me say it left me scratching my head. Before reading the post I was watching a Youtube clip of high school students commenting on t ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 3:40PM
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October 25, 2009.
MediaTakeOut.com had to struggle hard to determine whether or not we were even gonna talk about this. But after a long internal debate we figured that, instead of burying our heads in the sand, it was better to let you guys know ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 6:13PM
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A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers’ conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.
The video, posted by the ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 5:45PM
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MEMPHIS (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued blunt warnings Oct. 18—commemorating the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March—to the United States government, to the Black community at large, and to Black clergy and other ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 5:35PM
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A TEMPORARY THANG
I am happy
this emptiness right here
this emptiness right now
is a temporary thang.
Happy people cry too
even if their tears are confused, missed and taken for laughter
Happy people scream too
even though their pa ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2009 at 5:37PM
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There once was a man who was on his way to work when suddenly one of the front tires of his car blew out. Remembering he had a spare tire in the trunk, he pulled to the side of the road and changed the tire. While changing the tire, the lube slipped ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2009 at 12:15PM
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