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Essence says rumors of folding are untrue
6:46 PM on 03/18/2010
A recent gawker.com post has the internet abuzz with speculation over whether Essence magazine is in danger of folding...
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Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers
4:05 PM on 03/18/2010
CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island (AP) - A union is condemning an effigy of President Obama that was hung upside down by a teacher at a failing Rhode Island high school...
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Wesley Snipes: Battered and back, and (just maybe) better than ever
3:57 PM on 03/18/2010
In Brooklyn's Finest, he plays a neighborhood drug kingpin who has recently gotten out of prison. Snipes gives him surprising touches of jumpiness and vulnerability...
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Paterson claims he made initial scandal leak
3:05 PM on 03/18/2010
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Paterson says he was the first to reveal to the media a conversation he had with the woman at the center of a domestic violence scandal involving a top aide...
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Tiger's aura gone, probably for good
1:01 PM on 03/18/2010
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Oddsmakers didn't take long to make Tiger Woods the Masters favorite. Even his fellow competitors say they can see him trying on another green jacket...
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Teen dies after being pushed into traffic
12:20 PM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Family and friends are remembering the St. Paul teen killed Tuesday after being struck by a city truck it St. Paul, Minnesota...
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Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
12:15 PM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the U.S. a jobs boost...
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Children help mother deliver fourth child
11:55 AM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Because she realized at the very last second she was about to give birth to her fourth child, new mom Alana Sanders said she didn't have time to panic...
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'South Park' season premiere: Tiger Woods got golf-clubbed
11:15 AM on 03/18/2010
The South Park boys enjoyed a new video game last night, a new Tiger Woods game in which players can make Woods' wife beat him with a golf club...
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Sainthood sought for African-American priest
10:34 AM on 03/18/2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Cardinal Francis George says the nation's first known black Roman Catholic priest should become a saint...
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House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill
10:20 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill delivers on President Obama's top domestic priority by providing coverage to more than 30 million people now uninsured...
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Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
9:15 AM on 03/18/2010
Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men's college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players...
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Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
9:11 AM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Family members said the way 28-year-old Sony Millbrook died feels like a blow to the stomach that will not go away...
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Senate votes to change cocaine sentencing rules
9:10 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation approved by the Senate would significantly reduce the disparity in sentences handed out to those convicted of crack and powder cocaine charges...
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A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba
8:50 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Amistad, a U.S.-flagged vessel headed for largely forbidden Cuban waters is a symbol of both a dark 19th-century past and modern public diplomacy...
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Lawmakers fight to finish health reform
8:36 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend...
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'All black people' asked to leave Wal-Mart
5:34 PM on 03/17/2010
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - On Sunday evening at the store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."...
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Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
5:26 PM on 03/17/2010
SURPRISE, Arizona (AP) - Washington apologized for his mistake and told team management it was a one-time transgression...
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First collection of mixed race Barbie dolls hits the UK
5:08 PM on 03/17/2010
It seems Barbie has some new friends to add to her circle and they come in the shape of four mixed race girls named Jayla, Kara, Trichelle and Chandra...
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Tiger's return may be most watched golf event ever
4:52 PM on 03/17/2010
VIDEO - Four months after his pristine image was shattered in a late night car crash and ensuing sex scandal, Woods' much anticipated comeback is being carefully crafted...
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- Teen dies after being pushed into traffic
- Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
- Children help mother deliver fourth child
- Presidential disrespect goes prime-time in Obama's Fox interview
- An 'Immortal Life': How one woman's cells helped cure a generation
- Sainthood sought for African-American priest
- Conservatives use abortion issue to court African-Americans
- Will Michael Jackson's new music be a thriller for fans?
- Could 2010 be the year of the black Republican?
- Five reasons Tiger will come roaring back
- Clarence Thomas' wife's Tea Party ties are supremely disturbing
- It's 'do or die' week for health care reform - how did we get here?
- DMX sentenced to six months in Phoenix jail
- Oprah to appear in sex-abuse, defamation trial
- Slideshow: TV's black child stars - where are they now?
- Todd Bridges buries troubled past in 'Killing Willis'
- Jackson estate lands largest recording deal ever
- Ray Charles musical heading for Broadway
- House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill
- Senate votes to change cocaine sentencing rules
- Lawmakers fight to finish health reform
- Congressional Black Caucus calls current jobs bill 'inadequate'
- Paterson's press secretary resigns amid scandal
- Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama's signature
- Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
- Tiger's return may be most watched golf event ever
- Arenas: 'I deserve to be punished' for gun prank
- Tiger will return to golf at the Masters
- Heavyweight to featherweight: Tyson races pigeons
- LaDainian Tomlinson is bolting for the Big Apple
- Certain carnival dances said to come from the days of slavery
- Smithsonian receives rare Harriet Tubman items
- Selma, a town rich with history, seeks new legacy
- 'Black Ski' gets a lift from the First Family
- Slideshow: A glimpse of Hawaii's gorgeous landscape
- How to celebrate Black History Month in the Big Apple
- Made in America: Black-owned businesses blaze trails on our soil
- GOP questions Boys & Girls Clubs' executive salaries
- Is the average single black woman really worth just $5?
- Why African-Americans are more optimistic despite fewer jobs
- Wealth gap greatest for black and Latino women
- Minority firms get less stimulus money
- Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
- Is FEMA forcing people to buy flood insurance?
- Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial
- Ugandan children capture their own stories with Project Focus
- House Dems defend 'deem and pass' health care plan
- Parents abondon 3-year-old at his birthday party
- 'Brooklyn's Finest' is flawed but fiercely entertaining
- Why audiences should opt-out of 'Cop Out'
- Black music without borders: Five artists you need to hear
- 'Ameriville': Stories of Hurricane Katrina still alive onstage
- Sade's return is worth the wait
- Aid groups struggle to get food, water to Haitians
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