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Meet The Man Who Is Happy To Give You His HIV
Andre Davis, a former professional wrestler, who went by the names Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sexy Sensation, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them that he’d tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
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Davis, a 29-year-old man, was sentenced on 14 counts of felonious assault in this case, after it was determined that at
Read MoreA Young Entrepreneur Vanished Last Week Without A Trace
Post by Blogzworth in National on Jan 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Find Our Missing: Help find Charles Stephen Parker, a budding entrepreneur from Monroe, GA.
Read MoreHow My Illiterate Grandmother Raised An Educated Black Man
Post by Blogzworth in National on Jan 20, 2012 at 12:54 pm
From as early as 10 years old, I awoke to my grandmother tapping the ceiling directly underneath my bed with a wooden broomstick at 7 o’clock each morning during the school week. I rolled from underneath my covers, bathed, then made my way downstairs to the kitchen, where she would have a bowl of grits, a side of bacon, and a glass of orange juice ready for me on our
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In Santorum’s world states should be able to enact their own laws banning the purchase of condoms or birth control and the federal government shouldn’t be able to do a thing about it, but when it comes to states choosing to recognize same-sex marriage the feds should be able to unilaterally outlaw it in one fell swoop.
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The Jarawa tribe, 400 members strong, live in the reserve lush forests of South Andamans in the Indian Ocean. The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years until 1998. Since then, many have left their forest to settle in nearby towns and settlements. Now there are reports that Jarawan women and young girls are being forced to dance, some
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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (pictured) told an audience at TED, a conference of “ideas worth sharing” in technology, entertainment, and design made popular by its free video and discussion site, that knowing only a single story of a person or a place is destructive like the one-noted image we have of Africa – hunger, poverty, war – when it is in fact a continent rich with culture, resources,
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While few things in politics are certain, one thing that has held true over the past several decades is that African Americans will vote Democratic.
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And while African Americans’ relationship with Democrats has become highly publicized marriage, a rising chorus of African American liberals and independents are quick to highlight Democrats’ exploitation of the Black voter, campaigning to the concerns of the community
Read MoreROUND-UP: Critiques Of Controversial Forbes Piece
Post by Blogzworth in National on Dec 14, 2011 at 3:57 pm
UPDATE: Forbes Staff Writer Kashmir Hill writes that she felt the column Gene Marks wrote was offensive.
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“As soon as I saw the title, I groaned. “This is going to be offensive,” she wrote in a blog post. Hill also mentioned that Marks is one of 850 plus Forbes writers whose work often posts without any editorial review.
She continued
Read MoreWhy Even Herman Cain’s Collapse Is A Form Of Black Progress
Post by Blogzworth in National on Dec 8, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Herman Cain’s rise and fall would have been more surprising had he not been a Black politician.
From Adam Clayton Powell to Marion Barry, from Charles Rangel to David Patterson, many Black voters expect their leaders to be taken down at some point by the powers that be.
With Cain, Black America held its breath, anticipating some sort of stumble as he bullied his way to the front of the Republican pack. And
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The NewsOne crew found a few interesting tidbits you should know about Black folks’ efforts during and after the Pearl Harbor attacks.
1) Dorris Miller was a mess attendant on the U.S.S. West Virginia when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th of 1941. Though Miller served his time as a cook, he proved his bravery by aiding fellow wounded soldiers. Miller carried his shipmates
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