Chris Broussard is a Christian Who Opposes Homosexuality: Does That Make Him a Bigot?
By Alan Noble Yesterday Jason Collins became the first male athlete in one of the four major male sports to come out as gay. But headlines praising this move were overshadowed by news that ESPN NBA analyst Chris Broussard believes that practicing the homosexual lifestyle is a sin. During a segment on ESPN’s Outside The [...]
Fashion’s Persistent Color Problem
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond explains in a piece for Ebony why models and designers of color continue to struggle even though black personalities top fashion’s “it” list. Michelle Obama is arguably the most important fashion star of the moment. When she wears a designer brand, the endorsement is literally heard around the world with everyone from fashion [...]
Lethal Weapon Five: The Tax Code: Seven And A Half Things To Know
Science has determined that people need to know 7.5 things per day, on average, about the world of business. You can’t argue with science. Lucky for you, The Huffington Post has an email newsletter, delivered first thing every weekday morning, boiling down the day’s biggest business news into the 7.5 things you absolutely need [...]
Tracy McMillan: Why You’re Not Married Yet
by Tracy McMillan You want to get married. It’s taken a while to admit it. Saying it out loud — even in your mind — feels kind of desperate, kind of unfeminist, kind of definitely not you, or at least not any you that you recognize. Because you’re hardly like those girls on TLC saying [...]
Tea Party Activist Charged With 2 Dozen Rapes Offs Himself
A Utah Tea Party activist and GOP fundraiser who was charged with more than two dozen felony counts of rape and s****l assault killed himself four days after he was released from jail on bond. Reuters reports: Greg N. Peterson, 37, was found dead in his remote Heber City-area cabin, in the mountains about 50 miles [...]
President Obama Pokes Fun at His Less Than Stellar Debate Performance
President Obama seems to be taking a page out of George W. Bush’s playbook by using self-deprecating humor as a way of getting past a disappointing performance. Over 70 million people watched President Obama take a shellacking from his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. So while at a swanky fundraiser in Los Angeles, President Obama seemed [...]
Condé Nast Appoints First Black Editor-In-Chief in 100 Year History
Keija Minor’s appointment as editor-in-chief of Brides, the world’s largest weddings magazine, makes her the first black editor-in-chief to ever head a Condé Nast publication. In addition to Brides, Condé Nast also publishes GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Vogue, and, Glamour. From Journalism blog Poynter.org: Minor had been executive editor of Brides since November 2011, and was acting editor-in-chief after [...]
83 Year Old Woman Shot and Killed by Police After She Called to Report Break In
The police are supposedly in our neighborhoods to protect and serve, but more and more, it’s looking as if inept and poorly trained cops are a threat to our very way of life. There have been several recent examples of police injuring innocent people, most notably the NYPD fiasco where cops injured nine people near [...]
Google Street-Mapping Camera Captures Image of Man Brandishing a Gun
Google’s street-mapping cameras snapped a strange scene at an address that has striking resemblance to a Detroit home where a baby was found dead in a closet earlier this year. In several images on the site’s Street View map function, a group of young men can be seen standing on the porch of a house which is reportedly identical [...]
Statement from Malcolm’s Grandson Just a Few Months before He Died
I sincerely appreciate the care & concern of the People over my well-being after Press TV’s report of the most recent events which have transpired regarding the F.B.I.’s harassment of me. Given the storm of lies, and half-truths that come with being associated with being the descendant of El Hajj Malik el Shabazz, also known [...]
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