Before every game, the girls' basketball team at Kenmore East High School have a disturbing tradition. "The whole team before our game has a ritual of saying 1-2-3 and then the N word," says Tyra Batts, the only African-American member of her Buffalo ...
Posted Sunday, December 11th 2011 at 11:45AM
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Statement of Cynthia McKinney on the death of State Senator Robert Brown
9 December 2011
"We all are diminished by Robert's irreplaceable absence. And I have lost a dear friend."
It was with shock and disbelief that I received a phone call ...
Posted Saturday, December 10th 2011 at 3:15PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eddie Murphy may soon star in a more serious role, playing former Washington Mayor Marion Barry in a new HBO film project.
Washington journalists Tom Sherwood and Harry Jaffe have optioned the rights for their 1994 book "Dream Ci ...
Posted Saturday, December 10th 2011 at 3:03PM
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Janet Jackson was photo'd yesterday in MIAMI - wearing a MUSLIM burkha.
Word is that she's getting SERIOUS with her Arab Boyfriend.
She's even doing fashion lines in Saudi Arabia, as well as being a cover girl there. ...
Posted Saturday, December 10th 2011 at 3:00PM
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BBCWorld News--James Earl Jones opened up about the "most racist person" he has ever known: his grandmother.
During an interview with BBC News, the actor and famous voice of Darth Vader, shared information about growing up in rural Mississippi wi ...
Posted Thursday, December 8th 2011 at 1:26PM
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It's not exactly your average aerobics class: the teacher is a physiotherapist and the students are asthmatic. And the gym is 130 metres below ground, in the world's oldest working salt mine.
While the idea of a spell in the salt mines might conj ...
Posted Wednesday, December 7th 2011 at 3:08PM
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Thousands of UC Berkeley students, faculty, occupy protesters and residents from around the Bay Area lined up Friday night to view a dialogue between Carl Dix, a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and Cornel West, a politicall ...
Posted Sunday, December 4th 2011 at 4:37PM
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LOUISVILLE--A small Kentucky church has chosen to ban marriages and even some worship services for interracial couples. The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, located in Pike County, made the vote in response to a longtime member who is engaged to a ma ...
Posted Friday, December 2nd 2011 at 12:43PM
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ATLANTA -- An attorney for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has demanded cell phone records from an Atlanta businesswoman accusing Cain of an extramarital affair.
Cain attorney Lin Wood sent a letter Wednesday to a lawyer representing ...
Posted Thursday, December 1st 2011 at 12:49PM
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