At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty, the Daily News has learned.
Amazing. Hilarious. Perfect. The girl in the commercial is a joy.
Taking the humanity of half of the planet out of the closet with hilarity.
Chinedu Echeruo’s is the founder of HopStop.com, an important and influential website that allows users to find their way around nearly any city with public transportation.
Accusations of plagiarism add gasoline to the already fiery relationship between the two.
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Shelly Hilliard was a 19-year-old transgender woman living in Detroit when she was brutally murdered. Now, a new team of storytellers is setting out to tell the story of her life and her family’s…
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From Salon.com, here are eight things America is number one at in the world: 1. Most expensive place to have a baby. 2. Obesity. 3. Anxiety disorders. 4. Small arms ownership. 5. Most people behind…
We’re #1!
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Demand for the food stamp program remains high as people continue to struggle with unemployment.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the group which awards the Oscars each year, has elected its first African-American president.
When the ship is going down, that’s when they bring in the Blacks.
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Film and TV info I pick up randomly because I’ve read most of the internet so you don’t have to.
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When this book author went on the Fox News Channel, he encountered a biased anchor. He handled it so well, his book soared to #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list.
I’ve seen a lot of biased, ill-informed, and journalistically lazy interviews through the years, and this one was one of the worst. But the author who was the target of the anchor’s ire stood up to her questions well—and, in part due to his deft handling of that interview, currently has Amazon’s top-selling book.
Writer Reza Aslan—a prolific author who holds a Ph.D. in the sociology of religion—appeared on the Fox News Channel to discuss his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Fox News anchor Lauren Green went into the interview clearly skeptical of the book—less for its content, about which she was clearly unfamiliar—but because Aslan is Muslim. And a Muslim writing about Jesus was just too much for her to take….
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