Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall stirred up controversy after making comments on May 2 via Twitter about the military shooting of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The 4-year veteran criticized people who celebrated bin Laden’s death, and questioned if bin Laden was really responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center on […]
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Newspapers Worldwide Report on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Newspapers from around the world shared the same story on May 3 and that was the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of the United States. In the United Kingdom, the Sun had a headline of “Obama ‘Watched him Die’” with a slightly altered photo of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, […]
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Reader’s Corner: Just Want to Testify
Author Pearl Cleage weaves a sultry tale set in the city of Atlanta’s West End district. Blue Hamilton, the district’s unofficial mayor and protector, looks after local residents and ensures that he will prevent trouble from coming their way. But, when a quintet of five international supermodels arrives in town for an Essence magazine photo […]
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Washington reacts to news of Osama bin Laden’s death
The news came just a little before midnight on March 1: Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was dead. After a decade of eluding capture by America’s and its allies’ forces, the al-Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. special forces attack on his compound in Abbottabad, […]
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Ray Lewis, Reggie Howard Aiding Hudson River Survivor Kid
Baltimore Ravens Pro-Bowl linebacker Ray Lewis and former NFL cornerback Reggie Howard are leading the humanitarian and emotional assistance to a 10-year-old New York boy who was the lone survivor after his mother drove a van carrying him, his brothers and his sister, into the Hudson River on April 12. On April 30, Lewis and […]
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Mosley vs. Pacquiao Fight Only Days Away
The biggest professional boxing match of the year so far is scheduled for May 7, a fight between former lightweight, welterweight and middleweight champion Shane Mosley and current No. 1 rated boxer Manny Pacquiao. The boxers will square off at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. It will air on Pay-Per-View, followed by […]
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Grizzlies No Fluke, Steal Game 1 from Thunder, 114-101
The Memphis Grizzlies took another step toward proving that they’re not a one-hit wonder, outperforming the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 114-101 road victory on May 1 in game one of their second-round matchup. After shocking the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the Western Conference playoff, Memphis showed once more that […]
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Shocker: Grizzlies Eliminate Top Seeded Spurs, 99-91
The Memphis Grizzlies turned in the first shocker of the NBA postseason, eliminating the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs from the playoffs with a 99-91 victory in game six of their series on April 29 at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. The Grizzles are just the second No. 8 seed in NBA playoff history to beat […]
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Nationwide Ban Sought By 2020 for Indoor Public Smoking
Half of all U.S. states currently mandate smoke-free worksites, restaurants and bars and, if more states adopt bans, smoking could be prohibited in indoor areas across the nation by 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. In the past 10 years, 25 states and the District of Columbia have passed smoking bans, the […]
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Federal Proposal for Marketing Kids’ Food Released
A federal interagency work group is seeking industry and public comment on proposed food marketing guidelines which would limit the ways in which sugar, fat and salt-laden food is advertised to children. The preliminary version of the voluntary restrictions came at the request of congressional leaders in 2009, who urged federal regulators to recommend standards […]
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Mother of Girl Depicted in Controversial Ad Sues Anti-Abortion Company
The mother of a six-year-old girl who was depicted in a controversial billboard ad that read, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb,” has sued the ad developer for violation of contract. Tricia Fraser said that she would have never allowed her daughter, Anissa, to be placed in a huge New […]
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Proposed Merger of Southern University with White Institution Faces Stiff Opposition
Debate is heating up in New Orleans, as Louisiana’s governor seeks to merge the city’s sole historically Black state-funded university with a mostly White, nearby institution in an effort he said to improve both schools’ educational conditions. According to the Associated Press, Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, is pushing a bill that would merge predominately-Black […]
