A woman in the Toronto area has admitted to faking cancer, running a bogus charity and collecting thousands of dollars from people who thought she was dying, a Toronto newspaper reported. Ashley Anne Kirilow, 23, shaved her head and eyebrows, plucke ...
Posted Sunday, August 8th 2010 at 9:43PM
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We sometimes tend to give the impression that all you need to do is give your heart to Jesus and all of your problems will be solved, all your bills paid, you will have success and prosperity and everything you touch will turn to gold. If you are a C ...
Posted Sunday, August 8th 2010 at 9:41PM
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Senate Confirms Elena Kagan as U.S. Supreme Court Justice by 63-37 Vote
The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to a seat on the Supreme
Court on Thursday, giving President Obama his second
appointment to the high court in a year, and a politi ...
Posted Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 5:38PM
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The New York Times
Wed, August 04, 2010 -- 4:54 PM ET
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California Gay Marriage Ban Overturned
A federal judge Wednesday struck down a California ban on
same-sex marriages as unconstitutional, according to reports.
The ruling by Judge ...
Posted Wednesday, August 4th 2010 at 10:39PM
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Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys secretly wed on an island in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, July 31. Various media outlets reported that the ceremony was going to happen, but few people knew the exact details.
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Posted Wednesday, August 4th 2010 at 2:39AM
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A Department of Education report revealed what many people have always suspected: Black students receive a disproportionate number of out of school suspensions. In Tennessee, for example, black students were four times more likely to be suspended tha ...
Posted Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 at 11:36PM
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Usher recently talked about his past relationship with Chili on VH1’s “Behind the Music.” He said he found in Tameka what Chili didn’t want – marriage and a family.
“What I expected and wanted from her wasn’t what she could give me a ...
Posted Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 at 12:28PM
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Miisrael this movie is highly recommended for you. When I was watching the movie trailer I said now this would be a good movie for me to share with you. It's a movie about a man who loves his wife and refuses to give up on her although she's in lov ...
Posted Monday, August 2nd 2010 at 4:11PM
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Beverly developed uterine fibroids in her 30s, and for years faced symptoms including heavy bleeding, abdominal pain, fatigue and emotional stress. After attempting to manage her symptoms with diet and acupuncture, she consulted with two doctors; bot ...
Posted Monday, August 2nd 2010 at 3:36PM
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I was listening to this sermonette called "China Plates or Paper Plates?" and it got me thinking to the days when I was in the "chuch market" hoping to get my "knight in shining armour" to swoop me up in the church and make me his woman. Ha! I'd a ...
Posted Monday, August 2nd 2010 at 3:06PM
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The Internal Revenue Service is after Chris Tucker for over $11 million in back taxes, according to documents filed Tuesday with the L.A. County Recorder’s Office.
The film star is revealed to owe $11,571,909.26 in federal taxes for the years 20 ...
Posted Friday, July 30th 2010 at 12:44AM
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I've never heard a person talk so much that I actually wanted to jump through the television and put a muzzle on her mouth. Ann Coultier I've heard of, but who is this wanna be?
She is the most hate instigating, word twisting up, lying, dubious ...
Posted Thursday, July 29th 2010 at 10:32PM
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The blog title came from a site I often go to with my questions about mothering and mommy-stuff. I first scratched my head when I read the title, but I kept reading to find out what was meant by "mommy tracked". To be honest, I hadn't heard of the ...
Posted Thursday, July 29th 2010 at 12:47AM
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Recording artist and activist Wyclef Jean is considering a run for President of Haiti. Which is somewhat exciting. Yet kind of terrifying. If you were Haitian would you back Wyclef? You wouldn't if you were one of his former Fugees bandmates. He hasn ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 11:15PM
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We all love a man who goes hard for what he wants and makes himself a major player in the game. We're checking out more than a handful of men who are doing just that in summer 2010.
From sports stars like ESSENCE August Issue's "Man of Summer" Og ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 11:04PM
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But will the models, make-up, clothing and fashion shoots still reflect the desires and tastes of Essence's core audience (Re: black women)? I'm going to go with a likely yes despite how the hiring of former O: Home Magazine and Us Weekly editor Elli ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 10:52PM
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Congress addressed a historic wrong on Wednesday afternoon, replacing it instead with a slightly lesser wrong, when the House voted to reduce the disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.
To be charged ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 10:41PM
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The reactionary forces that have been pushing Arizona's racial profiling law will stop at nothing to see it enacted. And they’ll keep trying to spread their misguided tactics across the nation.
Only a vigorous rejection of this dangerous, un-Ame ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 9:38PM
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Disclaimer: I don't endorse the commentary, but I just wanted you all to see the actual pages of this book. Thanks for your support.
http://www.amazon.com/JATS-Bible-Classics-Made-World/dp/0786855169/ref=pd_sim_b_1 ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 2:46PM
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The New York Times
Wed, July 28, 2010 -- 1:22 PM ET
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Judge Blocks Key Sections of Arizona's Immigration Law
A judge on Thursday blocked the most controversial sections
of Arizona's new immigration law from taking ef ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 2:16PM
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Blog Talk Radio's Content Black Woman is now the number 1 current events Internet radio program...The next installment of this web sensation can be heard NOW at www.whyblackwomenareangry.blogspot.com ...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 2:33AM
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The family of Sean Bell, a black man killed by police officers in Queens in 2006, have settled with New York City, with $3.25 million going to the estate of Mr. Bell. The city is paying an additional $3.9 million to two other men who were in a car wi ...
Posted Tuesday, July 27th 2010 at 10:11PM
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I AM ME
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
Because I alone chose it - I own everything about me
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
Whether th ...
Posted Tuesday, July 27th 2010 at 6:34PM
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The head of the Guttmacher Institute said the abortion rate among blacks can be lowered by contraception and sex education.
Sharon Camp, the president and CEO of the institute, made the claims in a New York Times letter to the editor published yes ...
Posted Tuesday, July 27th 2010 at 12:15AM
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Sycloria Williams is suing Dr Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique and the abortion clinic's owners in a case that has shocked both sides of the abortion debate. Ms Williams (age 18 at the time) went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for D ...
Posted Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 12:02AM
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