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NEW YORK (AP) — Extolling the virtues of Harlem’s rich cultural history, Michelle Obama hosted a luncheon for the spouses of foreign dignitaries Tuesday in the historic New York City neighborhood she described as “quintessentially American.” The first lady spoke to about 50 spouses of chiefs of state and heads of government who are attending […]

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“Why are you so sad?” a TV reporter asked the little girl with a bright pink bow in her hair. “Because they didn’t like my dreads,” she sobbed, wiping her tears. “I think that they should let me have my dreads.” With those words, second-grader Tiana Parker of Tulsa, Okla., found herself, at age 7, […]

Karamba Diaby has broken barriers in Germany as the first Black lawmaker to be elected into the German Parliament. The Huffington Post is reporting that…

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What was suppose to be a joke ended up getting a 14-year-old boy expelled from school for a year and facing a judge on an…

  One of the downsides of being an athlete, you always have to be weary of your actions because anything can and will get you…

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LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio planned to execute a white gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage at his suburban Cleveland apartment complex, using a lethal injection that was to be the last before the state’s supply of its execution drug expires. Harry […]

Kinzie Barlow’s (pictured at left) 3-year-old boy, Khonor (torso pictured), is lucky to be alive after her exploding electronic cigarette set his car seat on…

The Kenyan mall terrorist attacks were said to have been at the hands of militant Somalian group, al-Shabab. It’s being reported that two or three…

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A video has hit the web of a cash audit being conducted in the former office of Carlita Kilpatrick, the wife of imprisoned former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The video appears to show that cash was improperly stored in Mrs. Kilpatrick’s office. Sources believe this is the reason she lost her job this past summer. […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled Senate is on a path toward defeating tea party attempts to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care law, despite an overnight talkathon on the chamber’s floor led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The freshman Cruz and other conservative Republicans were trying to delay a must-pass spending bill, but were virtually […]

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U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge Linda S. Chapman has ordered Bank of America Corp. to pay 1,147 African American job applicants nearly $2.2 million in back wages and interest for race-based hiring discrimination at the company’s Charlotte facility. In an earlier ruling, the judge determined that the bank applied unfair and inconsistent selection […]

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Would it surprise you to learn that top administrators in a Pennsylvania school district sent text messages to each other using the N-word to describe black students? It happened – repeatedly. A prosecutor says officials at a large southeastern Pennsylvania school district exchanged “shockingly racist” text messages on district phones. Chester County District Attorney Tom […]