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This week I had a rare moment of downtime. While flipping through TV channels I caught a preview of a show that will air this weekend: Oprah Winfrey interviewing Sean Penn in Haiti for “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on OWN. I couldn’t help but wonder what their interview will depict, and whether it will show what I saw earlier this month in Haiti as part of a delegation organized by Dr. Ron
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Andre Davis, a former professional wrestler, who went by the names Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sexy Sensation, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them that he’d tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
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Davis, a 29-year-old man, was sentenced on 14 counts of felonious assault in this case, after it was determined that at
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While Ron Paul has claimed that he was not aware of the ugly racism in his own newsletters, sources close to Paul claim otherwise.
Paul had defended the newsletters in 1996 before saying he didn’t write them and didn’t know who wrote them and never saw them in 2008 which he has reiterated in 2012.
The Washington Post Reports:
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Marcia Adams of College Park, Ga., and her boyfriend went to a convenience store to buy a chocolate candy bar and decided to purchase two Quik Pik lottery tickets. The tickets were bought less than an hour before the drawing, and two days later, she was $72 million richer.
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Adams and her boyfriend, whose name has not been released, purchased
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New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie , is being criticized by Black leaders for comparing the Civil Rights movement to gay marriage in a recent statement where he said he would veto a gay marriage bill and called for a referendum.
Christie said, “I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.”
The Huffington Post reports:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday the Justice Department opened a record number of more than 100 new investigations into possible voting rights discrimination across the country last year.
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During an appearance at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati,
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Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, served as lead researcher for a study that had some not so surprising results. According to his team’s findings, there is a significant positive correlation between prejudice, low intelligence, and social conservative ideology, reports LiveScience.
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Not only are children with low IQs more likely to be prejudiced adults, Hodson uncovered a hidden bias
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When Rev. Al Sharpton attempted to get Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) to truthfully examine fairness in our tax code in a heated exchange on his MSNBC show, PoliticsNation, he clumsily dodged the issue at each opportunity, reports HuffingtonPost.com.
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Building on President Barack Obama‘s State of the Union references to billionaire Warren Buffett‘s secretary paying taxes at a higher
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Meriden, Conn., police and the Department of Children and Families (DCF) were called, after a 4-year-old special needs preschooler pulled out marijuana to share with his classmates at snack time.
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The child’s teacher at Hanover Elementary School told investigators that she witnessed the child pulling out nine individually wrapped bags of marijuana out of his jacket pocket, then announce that he
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Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part opinion series on Spike Lee’s criticisms of the film industry and Tyler Perry’s complicated relationship with black moviegoers. Tomorrow’s column will focus on why Terrell Jermaine Starr feels Tyler Perry should be a director all independent film makers should emulate.
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Part 1
I wasn’t even a teenager in 1992 when the film “X,”
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An annual study released on Wednesday revealed that Missouri leads the nation in the highest homicide rates for African Americans for the second year in a row. The study, performed by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, has placed the state at the top of the list three times in the past five years.
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The study was conducted
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — If President Barack Obama is showing some swagger, it shouldn’t be a surprise.
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His job approval ratings point to an uptick. The Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden just pulled off a daring rescue that Obama authorized in Somalia. He’s fresh off a big speech before Congress, and the Republicans who want his job
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