From Hip Hop Wired: An Oakland, California man was arrested Saturday after an off-duty officer spotted him violently shaking his 2-year-old daughter before throwing her into oncoming traffic.
From JackAndJillPolitics.com: By Baratunde Thurston In July 2010 America came to a standstill and watched television as Lebron James held a much-hyped press conference to announce he would be leaving Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat. In January 2009 America came to a standstill and watched YouTube as BART transit officer Johannes Mehserle pulled […]
Black voters in California have been blamed for the passage of an anti-gay marriage ban called Proposition 8. Here is yet another rebuttal of that argument, this time from noted poll interpreter Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com: “The notion that Prop 8 passed because of the Obama turnout surge is silly….”
Did Black voters propel California’s gay marriage ban to victory? Many angry opponents of that ban — a ballot measure known as “Proposition 8” — seem to think so.
