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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the BlackAmerican community.
July 2007 - Posts
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Twista McDonald's has pulled rapper Twista from its free 10-city parking lot tour, citing the Chicago-based hip-hop artist's "controversial lyrics." Twista had been scheduled to perform Aug. 7 in Chicago as part of the multi-genre McDonald's Live jaunt, Read More...
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AP Photo: Star Jones Reynolds poses at the celebrity fashion show in this Feb. 3, 2007 file... Star Jones Reynolds skirted questions about her dramatic weight loss for years, saying only that she had undergone a medical intervention. That intervention, Read More...
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NAACP leaders urged public restraint Monday in judging Michael Vick before he has his day in court. R.L. White, president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , said the Atlanta Falcons quarterback has Read More...
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Tony Taylor walks into the federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, to enter his guilty plea. A co-defendant in the federal dogfighting case against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty Monday morning. Tony Taylor has also agreed to Read More...
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Wilfredo Lee / AP Michelle Obama gestures during an interview with The Associated Press on July 18 in Boca Raton Since he stepped onto the national political stage, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been compared to a rock star, a superstar, and even an Read More...
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More than any other debate thus far, the National Urban League's presidential forum illustrated how sharply the Democratic primary is dividing the African-American community's political allegiances. Although the National Urban League doesn't endorse political Read More...
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About 200 judges gathered Sunday at the tomb of civil rights leaders Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King to reaffirm their efforts to promote fairness in the legal system. The judges, part of the National Bar Association's Judicial Council, Read More...
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Nike Inc. has agreed to pay $7.6 million to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by current and former African-American employees at its Niketown store on Michigan Ave, the athletic-shoe giant said Monday. Nike also submitted to independent monitoring Read More...
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Eddie Murphy joked last Monday night about what kind of engagement ring he'd get for girlfriend Tracey Edmonds. Turns out he knew exactly what he was talking about: The pair got engaged two days later, Edmonds's personal assistant confirms to PEOPLE. Read More...
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People magazine is quoting sources who say that Ushers mom and former manager, Jonetta Patton, was one of several forces leading to the cancellation of his planned trip down the aisle with fiancée Tameka Foster. People reports: "Usher's mother [whom Read More...
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Whoopi Goldberg is in final negotiations to join "The View," a newspaper reports. ABC's daytime show "The View" appears close to adding Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd as regular cast members following a year with more plot twists than a soap opera. Read More...
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XM Satellite Radio will add three radio shows syndicated by Syndication One News/Talk Radio Network, Radio One announced Friday. The three shows, Keeping It Real, hosted by Al Sharpton, The 2 Live Stews, hosted by Doug and Ryan Stewart, and The Warren Read More...
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Curtis Martin during his retirement announcement today. Curtis Martin hopes the next NFL touchdown he scores will be as an owner. Martin, the league's fourth all-time leading rusher and a surefire first-ballot Hall of Famer, offically announced his retirement Read More...
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Advocate staff photo by Steve Kashishian NAACP members and supporters gather Saturday on the steps of the State Capitol to protest against the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s requirement that Louisiana schoolchildren in the fourth Read More...
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Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack said he is disappointed with Senator Barack Obama’s comments earlier this week about Senator Hillary Clinton. In a stop in Concord, New Hampshire on Thursday, Obama referred to Clinton’s approach to foreign policy as “Bush-Cheney Read More...
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One of Michael Vick 's co-defendants doesn't want to wait for trial. Instead, a plea agreement hearing has been scheduled for TonyTaylor at 9 a.m. Monday in the federal dogfighting conspiracy case. Taylor's hearing was added to U.S. District Judge Henry Read More...
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The weekend wedding between R&B superstar Usher and his pregnant fiancée Tameka Foster has been canceled, according to reports. The singer was to exchange vows with Foster at music mogul Antonio "L.A." Reid's Hamptons estate in New York on Saturday. Read More...
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Seating was full inside the Ferrara Theatre as four Democratic presidential candidates spoke Friday at the National Urban League conference at America’s Center in downtown St. Louis. The four-day event attracted nearly 10,000 people. (Robert Cohen/P-D) Read More...
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By Brian Copeland Are you black enough? Despite the rising American death toll in a divisive war, record gasoline prices and homes lost to foreclosure in historic numbers, this was the one question that I knew Sen. Barack Obama would be asked by Internet Read More...
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Just like you figured, Mel B (Melanie Brown), feeling scorned that Eddie Murphy dissed her to the entire world, and is out for some get back. For now, she's speaking to Essence about being "publicly humiliated" when the Oscar nominee denounced her and Read More...
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Photo by: Getty Usher will marry Tameka Foster at record executive LA Reid's home in New York's Hamptons on Saturday afternoon, PEOPLE has learned. Among the 70 to 100 guests expected at the private, outdoor celebration are Usher's mother and former manager, Read More...
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A civil rights group is suing the second-largest Ku Klux Klan group in the United States, alleging some of its members beat a 16-year-old boy at a county fair southwest of Louisville. The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said five members Read More...
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TED S. WARREN / AP Boise State's Ian Johnson proposes to cheerleader Chrissy Popadics on Jan. 1 on national television after scoring the winning points in the school's 43-42 Fiesta Bowl victory over Oklahoma. DAVID KADLUBOWSKI / AP Boise State's Ian Johnson Read More...
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Columns: Boomer with Attitude The Worst of All Gangs Beware of the GOP's DubMacs "Too many of our youth, primarily African-American, are imitating and/or participating in a gangster type of dress, attitude, behavior and action." -- Charlotte Mayor Pat Read More...
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When William Henry Cosby Jr. gave the keynote address at the D.C. College Access Program’s recent celebration, he was all but politically correct. At the JW Marriot bash for 50 high school and college graduates on June 19, Cosby presented human tragedy, Read More...
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I hadn’t seen her in quite a while until we met in a grocery store the other day. She recently returned from a visit to her native Arkansas and told me about an impressive ceremony she attended there. This ceremony dedicated a national commemorative site Read More...
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Dr. Frederick K.C. Price On March 23, ABC's "20/20" ran a segment titled "Enough" that focused on affluent televangelists. Among them was Dr. Fred Price, founder of Crenshaw Christian Center in California. Apparently, the segment was aptly titled because Read More...
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Three white former police officers were convicted Thursday of beating a biracial man outside a party and violating his civil rights, but a suspended officer was acquitted in the case. Federal prosecutors said the four were part of a group of off-duty Read More...
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Vick Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Dogfighting Charges Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, right, is escorted by U.S. Marshals, as he arrives at the federal courthouse in Richmond, Va., for his arraignment, Thursday, July 26, 2007. Vick pleaded not Read More...
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, speaks as during a panel discussion exploring the black vote in the 2008 presidential election as panel participants Paul Brathwaite, left, Shannon Reeves, second from left, Tara Wall, second from right, and the Rev. Joe Read More...
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A survey for the Southern Political Report of over 500 registered voters in South Carolina who responded that, if the vote were held today, they would vote in the Democratic primary in that state resulted in the following: Q. In the Democratic Presidential Read More...
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It has been a long time coming, but recently the journey of the African American quarterback has come full circle to the point that the group is being celebrated for their lifetime accomplishments. In August of 2006 the fans of the African American quarterback Read More...
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Jay-Z could be making a move from Island Is music mogul Jay-Z about to set sail from Island Def Jam? Currently, he is the president and CEO of the record company, but a source close to the rapper has told the New York Daily News that he is in negotiations Read More...
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Bob Johnson Robert L. Johnson can easily be counted as one of the top American media moguls. The entertainment executive founded the BET Network in 1980 and in 2004, he became the first African American to be the principal owner of a North American major-league Read More...
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In the first test of their appeal to the most loyal Democratic voting bloc, top 2008 presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a tight struggle for black support in the crucial state of South Carolina. The early voting state is Read More...
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Mayor Bloomberg 's demand yesterday that politicians go beyond "cheap platitudes" and offer real solutions for improving public education at the National Urban League 's annual conference is expected to raise the bar for the 2008 presidential candidates Read More...
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An Associated Press videographer captured this scene of New Orleans police officers struggling to subdue Robert Davis about six weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck. A former police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a man in the French Quarter Read More...
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The fiancee of Sean Bell, an unarmed black man killed by police in a 50-shot barrage hours before his wedding, sued the New York City Police Department and several of its officers on Tuesday for wrongful death and civil rights violations. The fiancee, Read More...
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© 2006 Evan Agostini / Getty Images Will Usher tie the knot this weekend? Is USHER planning a secret wedding to fiancée TAMEKA FOSTER this weekend? A source close to the couple tells OK! magazine that the ceremony will take place at music mogul LA REID Read More...
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Former NBA star Magic Johnson leads the list of people named Tuesday as recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Awards. Also named were historian John Hope Franklin and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. The museum, on the Read More...
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Monday night’s presidential debate brought together Democratic candidates for president in Charleston, South Carolina to answer questions submitted from voters via the popular video sharing website YouTube.com. It was clearly not your grandfather's debate. Read More...
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Reuters Photo: Laila Ali celebrates after knocking out Guyanan Gwendolyn O'Neil during their WBC and IBF super-middleweight... Laila Ali, daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and a champion pugilist in her own right, married retired U.S. football star Read More...
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AP Photo: Rapper Lil' Wayne is photographed in New York on April 26, 2006. Top-selling rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne were arraigned on felony gun charges Monday following their separate arrests after a hip-hop concert at which both had performed. A judge Read More...
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At his arraignment in federal court Monday, former Mayor Sharpe James pleaded not guilty to corruption charges and then listened as one of his lawyers defended himself against allegations that it would be a conflict of interest if he remained part of Read More...
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In his characteristic shoot-from-the-hip style, comedian Bill Cosby offered up tough love, practical advice and laugh-out-loud quips about life, education and criminal behavior as the keynote speaker at a prison graduation Monday. The advice to the 27 Read More...
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Martin Luther King Jr acknowledges the crowd after his ‘I have a dream’ speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, in August 1963. Photograph: Francis Miller/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images The plan to erect a giant memorial statue Read More...
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Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Gov. Bill Richardson listen to a YouTuber's question. Democratic presidential candidates faced questions directly from voters on Monday in the first CNN/YouTube debate. The lights and cameras were focused Read More...
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Democratic presidential hopefuls at the debate. Young, Internet-savvy voters challenged Democratic presidential hopefuls on Iraq, the military draft and the candidates' own place in a broken political system, playing starring roles in a provocative, video-driven Read More...
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Nick Wass, AP Photo Michael Vick was indicted on dogfighting charges on July 17. Michael Vick was ordered by commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday to stay away from the Atlanta Falcons' training camp until the league reviews the dogfighting charges against Read More...
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Carol Wallace, left, Dantrell Taylor, 2, and Beauty Turner, right, listen as Dearborn Homes resident Joyce Smith, center, talks about life in Chicago's projects during Turner's "Ghetto Bus Tour" on Thursday, July 12. Turner is a vocal critic of the city's Read More...
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Rev. Al Sharpton & Russell Simmons On the heels of Nike suspending its release of Michael Vick’s new Air Zoom shoe, rap mogul Russell Simmons and Rev. Al Sharpton has teamed with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to complain to Vick’s Read More...
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Dillard University must act quickly to devise a plan to maintain its accreditation after the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed the school on warning for six months. Dillard was placed on sanction June 28 Read More...
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Mike Roy/The Journal News Mike Roy/The Journal New The Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday discusses allegations of police brutality in Yonkers at the African American Heritage Festival at Trevor Park. The Rev. Al Sharpton raises the hand of Paula Crawford, acting Read More...
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Glen and Carolyn Sanders worked hard to keep the violence out of their home, but it came to their doorstep 10 days ago and left their oldest son bleeding to death in his father's arms. "I saw him take his last breath. This is something I will never forget. Read More...
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Ron Sims clearly recalled the day his father told him to do a book report on James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” after his high school teacher told him that “’African Americans had no history worth reporting.’” Sims, now the County Executive of the Martin Read More...
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D onna Bearden's eyes have been opened. Her ears, too. "Hip-hop is Satan's work," the 17-year-old said, "and his way of destroying African-American youth." In recent months, a teaching series called "The Truth Behind Hip-Hop" has been making its way through Read More...
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Walsh / AP FEMA Administrator David Paulison, center, listens as former FEMA trailer occupants James Harris, Jr., right, and Lindsay Huckabee testify in Washington on Thursday during a House hearing on health problems reported by some people given FEMA Read More...
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Ike Turner performs on July 20, 2003, in Juan-Les-Pins, southern France. (Vanina Lucchesi/AFP/Getty Images) St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has turned down a request to honor Ike Turner, the legendary musician who has publicly admitted to hitting his ex-wife, Read More...
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A day after release of a poll saying Hillary Clinton has a significant lead over Barack Obama among black Democrats in the race for their party's presidential nomination, the Illinois senator visited a poor, crime-ridden, largely black section of Washington. Read More...
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Michael Vick has been the Falcons' quarterback since 2001. The Atlanta Falcons may try to convince Michael Vick to take a voluntary leave of absence to focus on the defense of his federal dogfighting indictment, ESPN.com reported. But it won't be straightforward. Read More...
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On the streets of the nation’s capital, ask any young Black man about joining the military to “be all that he can be” and the answers seem to be the same, “Hell no, we won’t go.” “Go where?” said James McAllister. “You must be kidding, the military and | |
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