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If Congress fails to reauthorize extended unemployment benefits by the end of November, it will spoil the holidays for 1.2 million people, according to the National Employment Law Project. “The program deadline falls in the midst of the holiday season, when unemployed families do their best to put food on the table and hold on […]
*Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central show may have a “senior black correspondent” in Larry Wilmore, but it’s the least diverse late night show on television, according to a graphic put together by an artist that examined the race and sex of guests compared to the general population over a six-week period this past August and September. […]
*The NAACP says the tea party movement provides a platform for “anti-Semites, racists and bigots.” “The Tea Party movement has unleashed a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle-class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them,” reads the report, posted Wednesday on a National […]
VIA: PraisePhilly.com One day wasn’t enough to say goodbye to the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker, so she was celebrated on October 14th and 15th with several events in Chicago. A public viewing held and celebration of life worship service at were held at West Point Baptist Church, and there was a concert at the […]
Today’s leading R&B and soul music stars have a ton of new things to celebrate this afternoon with the release of the official Soul Train Awards 2010 nominee list beginning to circulate.
story by Jessica Loudis Last year, NASA became the butt of many jokes after announcing plans to “attack” the moon with back-to-back rocket and satellite strikes. Now, they get the last laugh. After analyzing debris that was kicked up between impacts, scientists have discovered that the surface of the moon holds water, and lots […]
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Tyler Perry recently taped an interview with Oprah Winfrey where he spoke about being abused while growing up in New Orleans. He also tells the daytime host that he once tried to commit suicide.
For 16-year-old Kendall, a high school sophomore in a dangerous Chicago neighborhood, just surviving the two-mile walk to school is an accomplishment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Public Radio says it has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after comments he made about Muslims on the Fox News Channel. NPR reported its move on its website. It said Williams appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday and told host Bill O’Reilly that he gets […]
Fox News is facing a lawsuit from a former technician who alleges that while at the network, he faced “daily abuse, fear and humiliation” from other employees because of his race, and when he eventually complained, he was fired.