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(CNN) — Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material intoa breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to “move on to the next option.” That option: Place a custom-built cap to […]
Via Eurweb.com: Here they come again. The Boston Celtics are back in the NBA Finals for the 2nd time in 3 years. Friday night they defeated the Orlando Magic 96-84 to win the Eastern Conference Finals 4 games to 2. A lot of b-ball observers and pundits had counted them out because of the collective […]
Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly is all over the Internet today for telling an African American college professor that he looks like a cocaine dealer. Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” included a discussion with Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill about beefing up security on the Mexican border. Read more
VIA EURWEB: The latest study on the genetic ancestry of American Blacks is entitled “Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans.” Published in the journal Genome Biology, the study does not offer much in the way of new information but its facts are still interesting. For example, the study says the majority of American […]
Traditional observance of Memorial Day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day and use it as the unofficial kick off to summer. Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service in the […]
Michelle Obama At Wayne State Detroit, MI May 2010 Wayne State University’s Tom Adams Field was packed Wednesday morning to hear first lady’s speech on mentoring and the future of Detroit: the youth. Obama pushed those in the audience, including more then 5,000 Detroit Public Schools students, to focus on their studies and make a […]
From Gawker.com: Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes. Plus, he looks fine! “He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem,” says his […]
Police said they have made two arrests four months after a mother was found stabbed to death at her home in Conyers. Authorities announced Friday that they have charged the victim’s twin daughters, Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead, and said that the 16-year-olds will be tried as adults. Both are being held at the Rockdale County […]
From the Washington Post: After winning the 2010 Oscar for best supporting actress, Mo’Nique noted that she was wearing a royal blue dress, along with a gardenia in her hair, because that’s what Hattie McDaniel wore 70 years earlier, when she became the first African American to receive an Academy Award. “Ms. Hattie McDaniel, I […]
From the New Haven Register: NEW HAVEN — Yale University afforded the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T and love Monday, with a short musical tribute and sustained cheering, when she was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree. Franklin was one of several luminaries at Yale’s 309th commencement ceremony, with award-winning […]
Is enough being done to protect the public from chemical pollutants? Watch “Toxic America,” a special two-night investigative report with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 8 p.m. ET on June 2 and 3 on CNN. VIA CNN: BP’s chief executive officer said Monday that the company is doing all it can to respond to the runaway oil […]
From NYPost.com: The ex-wife of legendary drug kingpin Frank Lucas – whose murderous exploits inspired the controversial movie “American Gangster” — was busted yesterday for allegedly selling two kilos of cocaine to undercover agents in Puerto Rico, The Post has learned. Julianna Farrait, 70, was nabbed inside an unidentified hotel after handing over the drugs […]
