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One of my good friends is from Kent Ohio. I would relentlessly taunt him about about Cleveland sports and their lack of winning sports’ franchises and brag about my many Boston championships. I would love beating him in NBA 2K with my beloved Celtics. As much as I enjoyed teasing him, I felt really bad […]
This week’s Village Voice’s cover story by writer Steven Thrasher entitled White America Has Lost Its Mind, has received numerous responses from angry readers. Thrasher’s informative essay aimed to criticize various White figures who have made moronic or racist gaffes (i.e Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck). Instead the article was interpreted as a […]
This year, Mr. Christie, the blunt-speaking suburban white Republican, and Mr. Booker, the Scripture-quoting urban black Democrat long rumored to want the governor’s job, have become the state’s political odd couple.
A Halloween decoration outside of an Apopka, Florida produce stand is causing quite a stir. Some people say a mannequin with a noose around its neck at Kathy’s Produce is an offensive reminder of the lynching of blacks.
The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study that purposely infected people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases.
President Barack Obama on Friday said a bittersweet goodbye to the energetic and fierce manager of his White House, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and elevated a quiet and seasoned adviser, Pete Rouse, to the most important gate-keeping job in American politics.
Mario, the Baltimore born R&B song famous for his songs “Just A Friend” and “Braid My Hair” was arrested for assaulting his mom in the Baltimore apartment they share, according to The Baltimore Sun. There are few details at the moment, but court records show Mario — whose full name is Mario Dewar Bennett — […]
California Governor, Arnold Scwarzenegger has signed a bill reducing deciminalizing marijuana for anybody caught carrying under an ounce, NORML is reporting. Yesterday outgoing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1449 — which reduces adult marijuana possession charges from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil infraction. Senate Bill 1449 amends the California Health and Safety […]