From Newsweek.com
June 29, 2012
As some 500 000 Haitians still live in displaced camps, five star hotels are being built amid shanty towns.
As part of the country's "Reconstruction", The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund recently invested $2 million in ...
Posted Friday, June 29th 2012 at 12:28PM
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The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha, Pervis, Yvonne, and Mavis. They are best known for their ...
Posted Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 10:53AM
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Newsweek.com--Pregnancy is the biggest killer of teenage girls worldwide, a charity has said.
Every year one million teenage girls die or are injured because of pregnancy or childbirth, according to Save the Children.
In a new report, the child ...
Posted Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 10:29AM
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From Commentary Magazine
June 26, 2012
At Tablet, Zack Beauchamp wonders whether Democrats are overreacting about former Black Panther Charles Barron’s chance of winning the Brooklyn primary race against the more moderate Hakeem Jeffries:
Ther ...
Posted Wednesday, June 27th 2012 at 12:36PM
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TMZ.com--Elmo impersonators roaming New York are nothing new, but one going off on anti-Semitic / racist tirades - ranting maniacally about Jews while harassing tourists - is.
The NYPD was forced to remove a man wearing the familiar furry, red Elm ...
Posted Wednesday, June 27th 2012 at 12:25PM
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Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco.
Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 195 ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 5:36PM
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TMZ.com--Rodney King's fiancée Cynthia Kelley is not invited to his funeral services -- King family sources tell TMZ.
According to sources, the services will be held next Saturday in Hollywood -- but the family hasn't contacted Cynthia since the d ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 4:43PM
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NEW ORLEANS, LA-- After attending the opening ceremony for the 37th Annual National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair, the family of Trayvon Martin and their legal team held an exclusive news conference to respond to the fir ...
Posted Friday, June 22nd 2012 at 10:47AM
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