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Feb 7, 2012 at 2:38 pm

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Homeless Receive Estate Of Elderly Woman Upon Her Death

Homeless Receive Estate Of Elderly Woman Upon Her Death

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From Bay Area: Lelia Boroughs, 84, wasn’t known to many.

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Obama’s Grandma Survives Crash

At least not outside her apartment building in San Francisco’s lower Pacific Heights.

Her neighbors knew her well as an eclectic, kind soul who would offer to pick up their groceries and feed the homeless who squatted on the ledges outside her apartment.

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Feb 6, 2012 at 10:34 pm

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Search For Remains Of 5-Year-Old Jhessye Shockley Begins Today

Search For Remains Of 5-Year-Old Jhessye Shockley Begins Today

At 7:00 a.m. this morning, more than 40 people, including the FBI and the child Abduction Response Team began a search through 6,000 tons of trash in Arizona’s Butterfield Station Landfill in hopes of finding the body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, reports AZCentral.com.

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The nation has been on high-alert, frantically searching for a trace of little Jhessye Shockley since

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Feb 6, 2012 at 5:08 pm

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Go Sista! Oakland Names 1st Black Woman To Lead Big City Fire Dept.

Go Sista! Oakland Names 1st Black Woman To Lead Big City Fire Dept.

By Donovan X. Ramsey

Beginning in March, a black woman will be at the helm of a major fire department for the first time in U.S. history.

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Theresa Deloach-Reed, 52, was named chief of the Oakland city fire department. Reed has been fighting fires for nearly 30 years, has seen many changes on the job and

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Feb 5, 2012 at 10:24 pm

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Super! New York Giants Defeat New England Patriots, Again

Super! New York Giants Defeat New England Patriots, Again

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Manning and the Giants one-upped Tom Brady and the Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute touchdown to beat New England 21-17 Sunday night for New York’s fourth Super Bowl title.

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It was a rematch of the 2008 NFL championship, when Manning led New York past New England to ruin the

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Feb 3, 2012 at 4:36 pm

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Mitt Romney Forms Strategic Alliance With Ron Paul

Mitt Romney Forms Strategic Alliance With Ron Paul

While they may differ on foreign policy, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have formed a strategic alliance. Reports claim that Mitt Romney’s aids are in close contact with Ron Paul and that the two campaigns coordinate events with each other.

Paul has a strong following but is unlikely to win the nomination and Romney is hoping that Paul supporters will help him defeat President Barack Obama in the upcoming election.

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Feb 3, 2012 at 2:13 pm

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Obama Flip-Flops On Church and State, GOP Rep Walks Out

Obama Flip-Flops On Church and State, GOP Rep Walks Out

Representative Phil Gingrey (R-Georgia), walked out of President Barack Obama‘s address at the annual National Prayer Breakfast after becoming offended that the president insinuated politics into what is supposed to be a non-partisan event, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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“He was glad that the president attended, but he felt that there were 364 days in a year to give a

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Feb 2, 2012 at 7:29 pm

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Are Black People The New Political Orphans of America?

Are Black People The New Political Orphans of America?

Prepping for another run for the White House, President Barack Obama recently launched an African Americans for Obama campaign to target Black voters.

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“I don’t think there’s a better time than African-American History month to consider the tremendous progress we’ve made through the sacrifices of so many, or a better time to recommit to the challenges we face right now,” said Obama in

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Feb 2, 2012 at 5:29 pm

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Don Cornelius, A Post-Civil Rights Integrationist

Don Cornelius, A Post-Civil Rights Integrationist

Long before MTV thought that Black music was cool (or profitable), Don Cornelius made it a nationally televised, weekly must-see event.

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It takes being a student of history or simply being alive in 1971, the year Cornelius introduced “Soul Train” to the American television audience, to fully appreciate how he turned

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Feb 2, 2012 at 10:48 am

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Michelle Obama Beats Ellen DeGeneres In Push-Up Challenge

Michelle Obama Beats Ellen DeGeneres In Push-Up Challenge

Michelle Obama knows how to do a push-up. Many of them.

During a segment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Mrs. Obama was challenged by the show’s host to a push-up competition, the Daily Mail reports.

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The pair started doing the push-ups on the studio floor with the audience counting along – Mrs Obama completed

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Feb 2, 2012 at 10:08 am

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Don Cornelius Underwent Brain Surgery In 1982

Don Cornelius Underwent Brain Surgery In 1982

ABC News reports that Soul Train founder, Don Cornelius, underwent a “21-hour operation in 1982 to correct a congenital malformation in blood vessels in his brain.”

During a 1995 interview with The Washington Post, Cornelius said he was not the same person after the operation.

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