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Rep. Anthony Weiner apologized to former President Bill Clinton for the “sext” scandal during a phone call following Monday’s press conference, according to Politico.com. Bill Clinton officiated Weiner’s wedding last year, according to NYPost.com. Weiner, who admitted Monday that he had sent explicit images and messages to a number of women online, called the former […]

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At this year’s NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, young professionals from across the nation convened in Hollywood, FL to discuss the next steps in empowering a new frontline of civil rights and social justice advocates. On Friday, the business session of our Summit began with a workshop on Digital Vision Boards led by Lindsey C. Holmes […]

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Last Firday at the Anthology Theater in New York City, the controversial hip hop Mockumentary (Mock Documentary), “Monkey Gang: The Mockumentary” was shown in New York City to a packed house. The crowd laughed throughout the whole movie and got the message about the satire and parody of negativity in hip hop culture. After the […]

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Comedians, like Stephen Colbert, should thank Palin for all of the comedy material she provides them with. In this video, Stephen proves that Paul Revere could have ridden a horse while ringing a bell and firing multiple warning shots from a front-loading musket. Watch Comedian Stephen Colbert as he reenacts Paul Revere’s ride to determine […]

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Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of Hip Hop’s brightest and most brilliant superstars. Innovative, inspired and often troubled intellectually, Chicago-native Kanye Omari West has turned the game upside down since his monumental entrance nearly a decade ago. Writing and producing hits early on for Jay-Z, Kanye West’s name, style, flow and presentation built […]

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Terrelle Pryor’s budding athletic career at Ohio State University has seemingly come to an abrupt end. The star quarterback has reportedly decided to not play during his senior year – an announcement that comes in the middle of the ongoing scandal that’s shaken sports fans for weeks. The statement came from his attorney late Tuesday […]

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NEW YORK — Former NYPD officer Jorge Arbaje-Diaz was sentenced to 20 years in jail for robbing drug dealers. Arbaje-Dia claimed he turned to robbing drug dealers to make mortgage payments on his new house. The New York Daily News reports: Defense lawyer Priya Chaudhry tried to win sympathy for his client in sentencing papers […]

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An African-American soldier alleges that he experienced racial harassment while serving in Afghanistan. Slurs and a noose strung up outside his barracks were among the alleged forms of harassment he filed in a complaint this week. Specialist Adam Jarrell, the only African American in a unit of 216 soldiers of the New Mexico Army National […]

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WASHINGTON– Tea Party front-runner Herman Cain said that African Americans are too poor to join the Tea Party, and that he refuses to remain on the “Democrat plantation,” according to TPMDC.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met with the Prince of Bahrain on Tuesday to urge the ruler to investigate alleged human-rights abuses by its security forces.

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Rep. Anthony Weiner has been blasted for lying to his wife and having creepy sexual predilections. Many have been able to forgive his dishonesty, seeing sending kinky sext pics as treading a fine line, yet remaining on the right side of fidelity. And who hasn’t lied? To err is human, and Weiner’s crimes of the […]