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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking to get out of prison again, this time claiming he’s not getting enough ice in prison to nurse his bad knee, nor the physical therapy he needs to get stronger.
The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, the provision of the landmark civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal government or in federal court. The 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and […]
CNN is reporting that a scorned wife in Peru confronted her husband’s mistress and threw the woman from a cliff! It’s been reported that Lisset Lupo Mamani, caught her husband walking with a younger woman, Sandra Bruna Morales, while they were out a on a stroll by a cliff in Lima back in January. The video that was captured by […]
Paula Deen has been DROPPED by Smithfield – a company specializing in pork products. Deen had a line of hams with Smithfield … part of The Paula Deen…
In perfect symmetry with the racist, flippant, insincere and insensitive rhetoric spewed by George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old…
DENVER – The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled in favor of Coy Mathis, a transgender 6-year-old who was barred from using the girls’ bathroom at her school in Fountain. Coy was labeled male at birth, but has always known that she is a girl, which she has expressed since she was 18 months old. Since […]
Bobby (Blue) Bland, the debonair balladeer whose sophisticated, emotionally fraught performances helped modernize the blues, died on Sunday at his home in Germantown, Tenn., a suburb of Memphis. He was 83. His death was confirmed by his son Rodd, who played drums in his band. Read More
Reverend Al Sharpton defended Paula Deen, saying she should be held accountable for acts committed now and not those committed 20 years ago. The disgraced celebrity chef is in the midst of a media firestorm following the revelation she admitted to using a racial epithet. Lisa T. Jackson, a manager at Deen’s Savannah, Ga., restaurant, […]
Editor’s note: This story contains language that may offend some readers. (CNN) — A prosecuting attorney greeted the jury in the George Zimmerman trial Monday with a quote full of expletives, while his adversary decided it was appropriate to tell jurors a knock-knock joke. And that was just the beginning of opening statements in Zimmerman’s […]
Hillary Clinton is dropping major clues that she plans to run for president in 2016. Although the former secretary of state has yet to make…
Good news Twinkies fans, your long-missing snack fix is due back on shelves on July 15. The announcement was made by Daren Metropoulos, principal of Metropoulos & Co., one of the two companies that bought the rights to Twinkies and other snack brands from the bankrupt Hostess Brands earlier this year. The new Twinkies box […]