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The NAACP says the tea party movement provides a platform for “anti-Semites, racists and bigots.” “The Tea Party movement has unleashed a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle-class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them,” reads the report, posted Wednesday on a National […]
A business consultant who wants to know who’s been anonymously disparaging and fixating on her online has gotten a court to force Google to tell her, reports the Associated Press. As she joined a growing number of people who have persuaded courts to unmask troublesome cyber ciphers, Carla Franklin said Wednesday she hoped her case […]
The widow of Steve McNair has won a request to get $2.5 million from the late NFL quarterback’s estate. Mechelle McNair had asked a Nashville judge to unfreeze a portion of the estate so that she and Steve McNair’s four sons could each have $500,000 until the probate case gets sorted out. She and Steve […]
VIA: WRAL.COM A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn’t know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died — so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell, authorities said Thursday. Officers with […]
A squabble at a council meeting in a Georgia city has caught the attention of the NAACP after a white councilman told his black counterpart that he should be working in a cotton field.
Many of the assumptions people have about black youth—that they are politically detached and negatively influenced by rap music and videos—are false stereotypes, according to a new University of Chicago study by Prof. Cathy Cohen, based on surveys and conversations with the youth themselves. Black youth say they are politically involved, critical of many messages […]
VIA: NPR.COM A little Muppet girl has started a sensation. The unnamed puppet with an afro sings a love song to her hair. “I Love My Hair” debuted on the Oct. 4 episode of Sesame Street. It was posted on the show’s YouTube page — and then women began posting the video on their Facebook […]
VIA: CNN.COM The maker of Benadryl and Tylenol has added another popular over-the-counter drug to its growing list of recalled products. The latest recall affects Tylenol 8-hour caplets 50 count, sold in the United States and Puerto Rico. The lot number is BCM155. Complaints of a musty or moldy odor led to the recall, McNeil […]
VIA: WRAL.COM Something new is on the menu at a renovated Starbucks in Seattle: beer and wine. The store that reopened Monday is the first under the Starbucks brand to offer alcohol. Craft beer and local wines go on sale after 4 p.m. The idea is to offer drinks and a wider variety of savory […]
The physical book’s days are numbered, according to experts books could disappear sooner than expected. Do you think digital books are a fad? cnn Read More
A frozen food company that sells vegetables Kroger stores in the southeast United States and nationwide in Wal-Mart stores is recalling packages of frozen peas because they could contain glass fragments. cnn Read More
A 2008 memo obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) confirms it: big brother is watching.
