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DETROIT – Aretha Franklin underwent serious surgery last week and is “recovering very well,” her longtime friend, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said Wednesday. Jackson said in an interview with The Associated Press that he’s visited with the legendary singer four or five times recently, including a few days ago, and that Franklin’s “spirits are high, […]
BERLIN — A popular German entertainment show will go on after a contestant was critically injured when his stunt went wrong in front of a live studio audience and 8 million TV viewers, network ZDF said on Monday.
Washington — Charles Rangel is the 23rd House member in the nation’s history to be censured for misconduct. Censure is “the most serious punishment short of expulsion that could be meted out by the House,” according to The Associated Press. According the Senate’s website censure is “a formal statement of disapproval…that can have a powerful […]
By Hakim Hasan Last Thursday the House of Representatives voted 333-79 to censure Congressman Charles B. Rangel after an ethics subcommittee found him guilty on 11 counts of ethics violations. It was the first censure of a congressman since 1983. Some pundits and Rangel supporters have argued that Rangel’s censure constitutes a racial double standard. […]
If I were walking down the street and I overheard somebody talking about how Black men were the greatest thing that God ever created, I’d pause for a minute just to make sure that it was an argument that I’d already heard. If it were a new argument, I’d pause for a minute longer. If […]
Afghanistan — Army Gen. David Petraeus told ABC News in an interview that even after nine years of war, it would be dishonest for him to promise that achievement. “I think-no commander ever is going to come out and say, ‘I’m confident that we can do this.’ I think that you say that you assess […]
As a man I can totally identify with Regis Philbin getting his cheap feel on Nicki Minaj earlier this week after she had performed on Live With Regis and Kelly.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama slipped unannounced into dangerous Afghanistan on Friday, one year after widening an ever deadlier war and just days before a pivotal review about the 9-year-plus conflict. Plans for a face-to-face meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai were scrapped at the last minute.
MONTREAL — A teacher in Montreal has been suspended for giving her students a sexually explicit multiple choice test which had questions on the penis size of Black people and homosexual encounters. Vancouver 24/7 reports: A teacher has been suspended after she gave her Grade 8 students a sexually-explicit multiple-choice test that included questions about […]
In celebration of Chanuka (which began December 1st) here’s a list of Black celebrities who are Jewish. We’ll guarantee that there’s at least a few people on this list who you had no idea have Jewish roots. Take a look: RELATED: Obama: “I’m Christian By Choice” Nebraska State Senator Sues God
Nigeria — Dick Cheney will be charged by Nigerian authorities in a bribery case involving his former employer, Halliburton according to the Huffington Post: An arrest warrant “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” said Godwin Obla, the prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria. The charges center on an alleged […]