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WASHINGTON, DC- Today, President Obama nominated Judge Bernice Bouie Donald for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Donald currently serves as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee.

New York — The 33-year-old police officer, Aaron Hess, was a former Marine who for seven years had served on the tiny police force in Pleasantville, N.Y., the village where he had grown up. He had never fired his gun at anyone in the line of duty. Brandon Cox, 20, was a college running back […]

Hollywood — Bill Maher expressed disappointment and frustration with President Obama on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on Sunday. The president, he said, has been too timid in pursuing the Democratic agenda.

Update: New York — Sean Combs insists the alleged discrepancy doesn’t concern him – because he simply agreed to lend his name to the event. He says, “I didn’t know what the (club) owner promised – that had nothing to do with me.” New York — Call him P. Deadbeat. That’s how two breast-cancer charities […]

New York — Everybody knows how Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, but few have heard how he helped ease racial tensions on one Brooklyn block.

There’s been a recent craze with Facebook as their members Facebook profiles are having cartoon pictures from their past. Unless you have been sleeping under a rock you have heard about the Facebook and everyone trying to get the best cartoon pictures for their profile pictures. Some of the best cartoon pictures have been viewed […]

Washington — Recently several torrent sharing websites including several Hip Hop related ones were shut down by the government. Davey D over at HipHopAnd Politics.com wants to know why. Over the Thanksgiving Holiday something very disturbing took place… Homeland Security along with ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) , the Department of Justice and the National […]

New Jersey — Camden, New Jersey, America’s 2nd most violent city, has layed off half of its police force according to the Huffington Post: New Jersey’s most violent city approved layoffs for half its police force on Thursday. The Camden City Council unanimously voted to layoff a quarter of the city’s government workers, including half […]

(UNION CITY, CA) Convicted sex offender, Eugene Melendres Ramos was arrested for sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl in a Dollar Tree store in Union City, California. According to KTVU.com, some good Samaritans in the store helped prevent the attack and apprehend the suspect. The girl had her pants and diaper removed and was being straddled […]

From TheGrio Pennsylvania — A sixth grader who hoped his bullet necklace would be ‘patriotic’ was instead suspended from Lafayette Elementary in Bristol Township, Pa. because school officials considered it a weapon. Rob Smith wore the necklace to school for show-and-tell and now his parents fear that the situation has been blown out of proportion.