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IMAGINE that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner. But what happens if you take away one man? You might not think this would make much difference. You would be wrong, argues Tim […]

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Arizona — A 20-year-old intern is being hailed as a hero for his actions following Saturday’s brutal shooting in Arizona. Daniel Hernandez had been an intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for just five days when a gunman opened fire in Tucson, killing six and putting the Arizona congresswoman in critical condition, AZCentral reports. According to […]

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Los Angeles — The happy ending may have to wait. Ted Williams, the golden-voiced homeless man discovered last week, became an overnight sensation and scored a job offer to get him off the streets. But following a police-involved confrontation with his recently reunited daughter on Monday night in Los Angeles, Williams may be headed for […]

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ARIZONA –Republic district chairman for district 20, Anthony Miller has quit his post due to threats from the Tea Party. The Arizona Republic reports: Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that […]

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ATLANTA — Stanley Nelson writes for a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana delta. For the past four years, he has been obsessed with one story: who threw gasoline into a rural shoe repair and dry goods shop in 1964 and started a fire that killed Frank Morris?

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For anyone who has ever attended an HBCU (Historically Black College and/or University), they will tell you how true to life the title A Different World is. The show itself was a spot-on depiction of life on a college campus where the majority, if not all, the students are of color. Beginning as a spin-off […]

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HelloBeautiful’s co-founder Ava DuVernay is a filmmaker and publicist who hopes to spread the distribution of black-themed films with her new organization, the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM). In March, black film festivals based in New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle and Los Angeles will be the first backers of the movement to collectively get […]

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Atlanta — Award-winning journalist Bryan Monroe has joined CNN as editor of CNNPolitics.com, it was announced today by Meredith Artley, vice president and managing editor of CNN.com. In this newly created role, Monroe will lead the editorial planning and content strategy for CNN’s online and mobile political coverage from the network’s DC Bureau. “Bryan is […]

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New York– Tyler Perry’s name is all over the place as the NAACP announced the nominees for its 42nd Image Awards on Wednesday. Perry’s “For Colored Girls” topped the feature film field with seven nominations and his “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?” picked up four. He’s also got mentions in TV categories […]

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Dr. Mill Etienne began preparing for the earthquake in Haiti when he was five years old. In 1981 he migrated to the United States from Port Au Prince where he would begin his education. The Naval Lieutenant Commander and Neuro Physician has spent over ten years amassing scholarly credentials but it wasn’t until January 12, […]

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DETROIT – A month after surgery in Detroit for an undisclosed ailment, Aretha Franklin says her health is “superb.” Franklin called in to Wednesday’s installment of “The Wendy Williams Show,” telling the host she was relaxing at a casino hotel in her hometown and hopes to begin traveling soon, saying she’ll be “looking for a […]

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Port-au-Prince, HAITI – In Haiti’s capital city, Bel-Air is one of its poorest neighborhoods. Like so many of the area’s young people, 24-year-old Kitcher Letang doesn’t work, doesn’t go to school and became involved in gangs at a young age. “Imagine living here with no schools, no security,” Letang told theGrio’s Jeff Johnson recently. But […]