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Recent findings reveal that some laced cocaine likely contains levamisole, a veterinary drug used for de-worming livestock, that will make your flesh rot off. According to the Department of Justice, some 70 percent of cocaine (most of it distributed in and around New York and L.A.) is cut with levamisole. Time reports that the average user […]

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NEW YORK — Rumors loom that Beyonce’s label fears her new album “4” will face underwhelming record sales, and are suggesting the superstar reunites with her Destiny Child’s bandmates to boost momentum. According to the NY Post, Columbia Records executives are expecting the worst, as they have grown concerned with the lack of hit songs […]

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A Southwest Airlines pilot has been suspended after his cock-pit microphone was accidentally left on, broadcasting a homophobic and misogynistic rant. The pilot, who’s name has not been released,  could be heard complaining to his co-pilot about how he couldn’t find a flight attendant to sleep with, because they are all “gays,” “over-weight,” or “grannies.” […]

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A new high-definition channel dedicated to African Americans is launching early next year called Legacy TV. The brainchild of television producer Byron Allen, Legacy TV will aim to show positive, celebratory images of Black people across the world. “The mission of Legacy.TV is to celebrate African-American excellence everywhere,” said Allen, the former comedian who heads […]

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NEW ORLEANS — As the latest figures shows Black unemployment climbing to 16%, Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) claims that the Obama administration has failed African Americans. Bachmann pointed to the figures at the recent Republican Leadership Conference held in New Orleans last weekend. “This president has failed the Hispanic community. He has […]

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NEW YORK–A 17-year-old girl viciously attacked a female New York City bus driver Tuesday, after she was told she could not board with her dog. Steangeli Medina was stopped from getting on the Bx9 in the Bronx on Fordham Road in Belmont just before 6 p.m., according to officials. The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, noticed a […]

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NEW YORK-Steangeli Medina a 17-year-old girl from the Bronx, allegedly beat bus driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, after the bus driver told her she couldn’t board the bus with the small dog she was carrying. The New York Daily News reports: The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, spotted a pooch tucked in the teen’s jacket and told her […]

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Before sipping from the Obama Kool Aid, I was dead set against the idea of a Black president. The standard analogy that I gave went like this: America is like a stolen car; the Indians are the rightful owners, the Pilgrims/Europeans are the thieves. Black people are like kidnap victims, tied up and thrown in […]

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NEW YORK — Nearly fifty years ago, Blacks retreated from the South to elude the implications of segregation. Ironically, today many Blacks, in New York especially, are migrating back to the South in search of economic refuge. About 17 percent of African-Americans who moved to the south in the past decade came from New York, […]

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An Amish man from Milford, Ind., who pulled into a police sting operation in a horse and buggy has been charged with soliciting a 12-year-old girl via sexting. Willard Yoder, 21, allegedly sent more than 600 text, picture and video messages to the local girl that he didn’t know, including solicitations for sex and naked […]

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Some Americans are willing to work for much less than people from other countries, according to the results of an online experiment conducted by Newsweek. The magazine used Mechanical Turk, a website run by Amazon.com that acts as a marketplace for freelance work. As Newsweek described their method: [W]e posted simple, hourlong jobs (listening to […]

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is set to sign a bill on Tuesday that eliminates state and federal funding from nine of the state’s Planned Parenthood health centers. If the bill goes through, Wisconsin will become the fourth state to defund Planned Parenthood. “The way the language [of the bill] is written, we also can’t partner […]