Michael Cottman
Ex-Rep and Mother of Kwame Kilpatrick Presides Over Alien, UFO Hearings
I once admired Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the former U.S. Rep. from Detroit, but now I’m questioning her reasoning. In Washington, D.C. this week, Cheeks, who…
Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com
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Who Killed Kendrick Johnson?
Who killed Kendrick Johnson? Nobody knows. Or at least nobody is talking. And police investigators are no closer to solving Johnson’s death today. Johnson, a…
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Will Obama Ever Return to His Gun-Violent Neighborhood?
Urban gun violence is edging ever closer to President Barack Obama’s Chicago home. Last week, 15-year-old Cornelius German was shot and killed in a backyard…
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COMMENTARY: Obama Says He Didn’t Help Arrange Jay-Z/Beyonce’s Cuba Trip: We’ve Got Better Things to Do’
President Barack Obama said pointblank that he knew nothing about rapper Jay-Z and Beyonce’s high-profile vacation to Cuba this month – a trip that caused…
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CNN’s John King Falsely Calls Boston Bomb Suspect ‘Dark-Skinned Male’
CNN’s John King showed the worst kind of journalism Wednesday when he made controversial racial assumptions and falsely reported on-air that the suspect in the…
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COMMENTARY: White Golfer Goes Nuts, Attacks Black Golfers Then Threatens to Stab Them
Racism found its way onto a Long Island, New York golf course last week after a white golfer went berserk, yelled the N-word at two…
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Airline Asks Black Men to Take Off Their Hoodies in First Class While White Men Wore Same Outfits
Was it blatant racism or a simple misunderstanding that prevented two African American men from traveling in the first class cabin of U.S. Airways while…
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National Urban League: Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites Widens
“In 1963, more than a quarter-million people came together in Washington, DC for The Great March for Jobs and Freedom, a watershed moment in black…
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COMMENTARY: White Cop Says Trayvon Martin and All Blacks Should Be ‘Drowned at Birth’
NEW YORK -Sabrina and Tracy Martin, the mother and father of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, are parents in pain; a soft-spoken, spiritual couple on a…
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9-Year-Old Girl Sexually Abused in Harlem School; Principal Does Nothing
As a father of a teenage daughter, I was particularly alarmed to learn that a 9-year-old girl was sexually abused during a lunch break in…
