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*(Via AJC.com) – The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” House Republicans notified lawmakers that the chamber will vote Monday evening on other bills. They say that will be their only votes of the day. President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said [...]
*New footage has released that shows Moammar Kadafi’s capture by Libyan fighters from a new angle. In the video, men in the background shout, “Don’t kill him! Don’t kill him! We need him alive!” The Associated Press reports that Gaddafi also said, “What do you want? Don’t kill me, my sons,” as he was captured [...]
*According to the AP, Fox’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” starring James Franco is neither a sequel nor a prequel, but it does have built-in brand recognition and a fresh interpretation of the original series. So expect no monkeying around with these apes as they rise to the top of the weekend box [...]
*A first-person essay written by Rosa Parks presents a detailed and harrowing account of a young black housekeeper who is nearly raped by a white neighbor. Looking like a remembrance from Parks’ own life, an expert called it an exciting find that might help explain her lifelong advocacy. But on Friday an institute created by [...]
*In Kingston (Jamaica), Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she’s not worried about skin cancer. The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-color common among Jamaica’s elite [...]
*Two of Malcolm X’s daughters, Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz, are not too thrilled that late author Manning Marable’s new book alleges their parents’ marriage was strained and that their mother – and possibly their father – were unfaithful, reports The Associated Press: The marriage “was definitely faithful and devoted because my father was a man [...]
*Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind his vision of economic revival for an anxious nation, declaring in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: “We will move forward together or not at all.” To a television audience in the millions, Obama [...]
*Monday night’s BCS Championship Game in Arizona wasn’t the shootout that everyone predicted, but it was the nail-biter that everyone wanted. Auburn kicker Wes Byrum nailed a 19-yard field goal as time expired to seal the title for the Tigers, the second national championship in program history. The first came in 1957, well before the [...]
*When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections placing them on the wrong side of the [...]
*Hmm, does this mean he won’t challenge President Obama in 2012? Alvin Greene, the unemployed military veteran who won the Democratic nomination to face Sen. Jim DeMint (R) last month, has filed to run for South Carolina’s state house. Greene, who lost to Demint by over 30 percentage points, paid the $165 entry fee five [...]
*Bernie Wilson, a member of R&B group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, has died. He was 64. Wilson, who sang baritone, died early Sunday at Kresson View Center in Voorhees, N.J., following a stroke and a heart attack, his cousin, Faith Peace-Mazzccua, said Monday. Philadelphia International Records, the former record company for Harold Melvin [...]
*Poor Donovan McNabb. Apparently because of performance issues, he’s having a hard time satisfying his coach. The Associated Press is reporting that a person with knowledge of the situation says the Washington Redskins plan to start Rex Grossman at quarterback over Donovan McNabb on Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys. The person spoke to The AP [...]
*When Ron Isley talks about the three years he spent in prison for tax evasion, there’s no bitterness or anger in his voice: At times, there almost seems to be a bit of nostalgia. “I made a lot of friends. I was treated like a king. I had all of the respect that one would [...]
*Actor and singer Jesse L. Martin says he has no regrets leaving “Law & Order” after nine years. He told the AP that he would have ended up “dimming” himself as an actor if he had stayed on the show. Martin, who played Detective Ed Green, left the NBC crime show in 2008. Martin is [...]
*We’re not sure why, but T.I. is “disappointed” today because he will be sitting behind bars for a spell. On Friday, the rapper who violated his probation was sentenced to 11-months in jail. ‘This is not what he expected and this is not what he wants in his life at this point and time,’ Dwight [...]
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