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- Conservative Commentator: Freed Slaves 'Preferred White Supremacy' | Addicting Info (7 comments)
- Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant loses (29 comments)
- Native Athlete's in the Olympic games - 1912 and 1964 Featured (9 comments)
- Happy Birthday, Malcolm X (8 comments)
- Tasing a Pregnant Woman in Front of Her Kid? The Outrageous -- And Dangerous -- Abuse of Tasers by Police | Civil Liberties | AlterNet (9 comments)
Geraldo To O'Reilly: Trayvon 7-Eleven Tape Shows 'He's Dressed In Thug Wear' | Mediaite
Seeded on Sun May 20, 2012 3:44 PM EDT (Mediaite,com)
Geraldo Rivera is not letting Trayvon Martin‘s wardrobe escape scrutiny as the court begins work on the George Zimmerman trial, calling his black hoodie “thug wear.” On The O’Reilly Factor last night, Rivera dismissed the THC in Martin’s bloodstrea …
Native Athlete's in the Olympic games - 1912 and 1964 Featured
Seeded on Sun May 20, 2012 11:42 AM EDT ()
The 1912 and 1964 Olympics are featured in this article. The feats of the NA's in 1912 Olympics in Sweden was amazing. Jim Thorpe won two Gold Metals, the Duke won a Gold and many other NA's served notice that they were great athletes. The 1964 Olympics featured the greatest up …
Happy Birthday, Malcolm X
Sun May 20, 2012 3:34 AM EDT
Yesterday was the birthday of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil Rights Movement. The man who would later inspire many African Americans during that time was born Malcolm Little on this date in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, to a father who was a black preacher who bel …
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Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant loses
Sat May 19, 2012 11:24 PM EDT
The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant has lost her bid to win the title.
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NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality 'Unequivocally'
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 5:22 PM EDT (Gawker)
Today marks another step forward — and trouble for the National Organization of Marriage's plan to drive a wedge between LGBT voters and black voters. The NAACP has endorsed marriage equality, as first reported by Senior Vice President Maxim Thorne on Twitter. The NAACP Boar …
Conservative Commentator: Freed Slaves 'Preferred White Supremacy' | Addicting Info
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 8:45 PM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
It’s been quite a couple of weeks for John Derbyshire. After writing a stunningly racist screed that got him fired from the right-wing National Review, Derbyshire suddenly found himself free to fully express the hard-core racism that the right keeps under wrap …
Tasing a Pregnant Woman in Front of Her Kid? The Outrageous -- And Dangerous -- Abuse of Tasers by Police | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:41 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
In 2004, Malaika Brooks, seven months pregnant and accompanied by her 11-year-old son, was pulled over by two Seattle cops for driving 32 mph in a 20 mph zone. She was willing to accept a speeding ticket, but incorrectly thought signing it was an admission of guilt. She refused …
Tamron Hall Ends Tim Carney's Spin Doctoring By Tossing Him Off Her Show | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 1:59 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Tamron Hall lost her temper at the right wingers who tried really hard to distract everyone from Mitt Romney's bullying ways and more importantly, his disingenous denials and half-apologies.
BREAKING: George Zimmerman Could Be Charged With Federal Hate Crime | Addicting Info
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 12:00 AM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
The FBI announced today that George Zimmerman could be charged with a federal hate crime, a charge that would mean Zimmerman could face the death penalty if convicted. The FBI made the announcement shortly after Zimmerman’s lawyers received the list of witnesses and evid …
Mother's Day's Dark History
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 5:51 PM EDT (National Geographic)
As early as the 1850s, West Virginia women's organizer Ann Reeves Jarvis held Mother's Day work clubs to improve sanitary conditions and try to lower infant mortality by fighting disease and curbing milk contamination, according to historian Katharine Antolini of West Virginia …
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