June 9, 2009
The family of Dr. George Tiller announced today that effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 6:36AM
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AP - The most prominent American museum bearing witness to violence against Jews was the scene of bloodshed, its doors breached by an assailant who opened fire with a rifle, killing a guard in an attack linked to a white supremacist's hate. Law enfor ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 6:23AM
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Bossip just caught word that Ush & Tameka’s marriage might be crumbling as we speak. The “project manager” chick, Grace Miguel, that Usher was seen with last week, is married and wants no parts of the drama.
Source: Bossip
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Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 9:54PM
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Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard who was shot at the Holocaust Memorial Museum this morning has died of his injuries in hospital. He was 39 years old. It is believed he was shot by James Wenneker Von Brunn, when he walked in to the m ...
Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 7:12PM
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(BlackNews.com) - Toward the end of his life, tennis legend and activist Arthur Ashe sat down and wrote a letter to his young daughter to be read and re-read for inspiration and comforted as she got older and he wasn’t around. The letter was, and is ...
Posted Monday, June 8th 2009 at 9:56PM
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June 7
Prince
Prince was born on this date in 1958. He is an African-American singer, producer, musician, and global multi-media entertainer. Prince Rogers Nelson is from Minneapolis, MN, a graduate of Minneapolis Central High School, who taught ...
Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 8:48PM
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WASHINGTON — After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President Obama has concluded that he must exert greater control over the health care debate and is preparing an intense push for legislation that will include speeches, t ...
Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 7:00PM
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Arrest warrant issued for Daniel James Murray, man 'on a mission to kill' President Obama
The gun-loving former New Yorker being sought Friday for threatening to kill President Obama was known in his old neighborhood as the "Cape Man" of Blue Jay Wa ...
Posted Friday, June 5th 2009 at 7:37PM
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FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – Brazilian military planes found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday. Jobim t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 5:29PM
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AP - The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she made a poor word choice in a 2001 speech in which she said that a Latina judge would often reach a better conclusion than a white male judge who hasn't lived the same li ...
Posted Friday, May 29th 2009 at 4:51PM
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Lesbians living in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will 'cure' them of their sexual orientation, a report has revealed. Women are reporting a rising tide of brutal homophobic attacks and murders and the widespread use of 'correct ...
Posted Friday, May 29th 2009 at 12:39PM
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May 28
On this date in 1830, U. S. legislation leading to the “Trail of Tears” was enacted.
President Andrew Jackson signed a bill that forced the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminole Indian tribes off their land in the southeaster ...
Posted Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 9:30PM
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May 28
This date marks the birth of Betty Shabazz in 1936. She was an administrator and the wife of Malcolm X. Betty Sanders spent her childhood in a protective environment in Detroit where she was born. After high school, she traveled to Alabama’s ...
Posted Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 8:51PM
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SchoolMatters NewsletterWednesday, May 13, 2009 8:03 AM
During the next several weeks, high school students across the country will participate in one of life’s most important rites of passage – high school graduation. And while 95% of high school s ...
Posted Tuesday, May 19th 2009 at 2:55AM
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Mom always said not to sit too close to the TV so your eyes would be "ruined," but it turns out she was worried about the wrong thing altogether. New flat-screen televisions, which balance precariously on narrow bases, are falling on kids in record n ...
Posted Tuesday, May 19th 2009 at 2:26AM
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