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New Voter ID Scheme: Pop Quizzes! Unsurprisingly, now that voter identification has become the law of the land in Arkansas, poll workers are wielding their…

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It’s Now Possible to Text 911 Starting last week, the four major cell phone service providers — Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T — enabled…

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Yes She Can: Brooklyn Eighth-Grader Publishes Two Novels On Her Own When 13-year-old Angela Content told her mother she was going to write a novel,…

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Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You “Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!” merits the distinction of the most…

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  Diddy Wows Crowd In Emotional Commencement Speech At Howard University Graduation Chants roared from the crowd as attendees of Howard University’s 146th commencement waited to…

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North Korean State Media Publishes Racist Screed Against Obama Most articles published by North Korea’s state-run news agency are translated into English, but not this…

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Kansas City Bans Smoking Inside Public Housing Apartments It’s one thing to ban smoking from bars and restaurants, as Kansas City did in 2008 following…

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Nigeria’s President Issues Directive That ‘Everything Must Be Done’ To Free Abducted Girls Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met with security, school and state officials and…

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All Over Some Hair… Man Sentenced To 23 Years After Hair Weave Argument Ends In Senseless Death Denzel Holder. Yesterday, Holder, from Brooklyn, was sentenced…

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Watch This Ginger Dude Teach African Dance to Cedric the Entertainer Jeff Hunsicker, a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, shared…

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Shocking Number Of Innocent People Sentenced To Death, Study Finds More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably…

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In Minneapolis, Columbus Day Becomes Indigenous People’s Day The 13-member Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to recognize another holiday on the same day as Columbus…