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From Time.com: It died and broke into many small pieces, but one massive jellyfish managed to sting more than 150 people at a New Hampshire beach.
The Obama’s arrived in Bar Harbor, Maine for their vacation last weekend. They visited several places in Maine including Acadia National Park and Cadillac Mountain. However, the one part vacation in Maine that garnered the most media attention was the Obamas’ visit to a small ice cream shop in Maine called Mt. Desert Island Ice […]
From Southernstudies.org: Right now, if you do a web search of the words “racism” and “USDA,” the majority of links will steer you to coverage of this week’s Shirley Sherrod affair, in which the African-American U.S. Department of Agriculture staffer based in Georgia resigned after a conservative website reversed the meaning of a speech she […]
FRESNO, Calif. – A Greyhound bus traveling to Sacramento from Los Angeles crashed on a highway in California’s Central Valley early Thursday morning, killing six and seriously injuring nine others.
It could be said that eleven year-old Shannon Tavarez became a star with relatively little struggle. The exceptional talent nailed the role of the young Nala in the Broadway hit, The Lion King, in her very first professional audition.
From Washingtonpost.com: After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
The title of the bill may be misleading for Main Street people, but the landmark bill–the most aggressive financial reform bill since the Great Depression–was signed into law today by President Obama. Here’s how it will affect you: