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Glenn Beck calls Roland Martin an 'idiot' over Super Bowl tweets controversy

11:24 PM on 02/07/2012

GLAAD has an unlikely supporter in their efforts to punish Roland Martin for his controversial Super Bowl tweets -- conservative commentator Glenn Beck...

Teacher's aide accused of abusing, videotaping kids at school

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4:12 PM on 02/07/2012

NEW YORK - Following his first arrest, the FBI said they searched Brooks' home. Officials said they discovered videos that allegedly show him in the school molesting children...

Black teacher allegedly calls Haitian student 'little chocolate boy'

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2:26 PM on 02/07/2012

MIAMI - A Pompano Beach high school teacher who's previously faced discipline for inappropriate conduct towards students is once again in hot water after she allegedly called a Haitian student 'little chocolate boy'...

Times Square vendor who spotted bomb running for Congress

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12:29 PM on 02/07/2012

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress...

Family sues morgue for losing mother's body for 14 months

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12:25 PM on 02/07/2012

VIDEO - Carmelita Johnson's body was found three months after she went missing in Jan. 2010, but it stayed in the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office for more than a year because nobody knew who she was...

Don Lemon: Being black and gay is 'about the worst thing you can be in black culture'

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12:17 PM on 02/07/2012

CNN anchor Don Lemon sounded off recently, saying that being a black, gay male is the worst thing to be in the African-American community...

Uganda's anti-gay bill reintroduced in parliament

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11:24 AM on 02/07/2012

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-gay bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts reintroduced the bill on Tuesday...

Elderly woman leaves home to homeless in her will

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10:13 AM on 02/07/2012

BAY AREA - Before Leila Boroughs died last September, she told her attorney she had no family to whom to leave her estate. She crafted her will to leave her 525 square foot condo to the city to turn into a homeless shelter...

Reports: African-American homicide rates rising in Midwest states

By Ashley Michelle Williams

6:00 PM on 02/06/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Studies are revealing that more Midwest states have had significant increases in African-American homicide victims within the past few years...

Registered sex offender pastor back at the pulpit

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5:15 PM on 02/06/2012

VIDEO - A Jacksonville pastor who confessed to sexual crimes against two young girls is once again preaching. Former Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church pastor Darrell Gilyard was just released from prison in December...

Rev. Luter seeks to be first black man to lead Southern Baptist Convention

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5:09 PM on 02/06/2012

Reverend Fred Luter announced to his African-American church that he will seek to become the first black man to lead the Southern Baptist Convention, a predominantly white ..

Corporal punishment legal in Georgia schools

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4:14 PM on 02/06/2012

VIDEO - Thirty states have outlawed corporal punishment in schools since the first state in the union made it illegal 150 years ago. Georgia is still not one of those schools...

Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'

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4:00 PM on 02/06/2012

(AP) - The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: 'black'...

Jhessye Shockley missing: Ariz. police begin searching landfill for girl

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2:27 PM on 02/06/2012

PHOENIX (AP) - Police have started methodically searching a landfill south of Phoenix for the body of a 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing for more than four months...

Teen claims transvestite tricked him into thinking he was a woman

By Nakita Austin

1:20 PM on 02/06/2012

VIDEO - A transvestite rape suspect named Jeron Winston is accused of tricking a 14-year-old into believing he was a woman. The two initially met online and the teenager claimed to be...

Slideshow: Mo' money, mo' problems! 20 celeb tax cheats

By Donovan X. Ramsey

12:22 PM on 02/06/2012

SLIDESHOW - No one is spared from the strong arm of the IRS, not even celebrities...

Black drivers serve as decoys for US-Mexico human smugglers

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4:51 PM on 02/03/2012

In a strange new twist in the fight to stop illegal immigration between the U.S. and Mexico, federal authorities are reporting that black drivers have been used as decoys to help smugglers avoid detection...

War vet denied benefits after being declared dead 4 times

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1:08 PM on 02/03/2012

VIDEO - A Florida veteran is in a battle with the federal government to prove that he is alive...

Brooklyn mom wins $13.5 million on lottery quick pick

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10:35 AM on 02/03/2012

NEW YORK - Sharisee Frails, 42, was one of six newly minted Lottery millionaires Thursday. She hit the $13.5 million jackpot in December...

Unemployment rate hits 8.3 percent: Black jobless numbers improve for first time in months

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8:38 AM on 02/03/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - African-American unemployment fell significantly for the first time in three months, going from 15.8 to 13.6 percent. Black teen joblessness also went down from 42.1 to 38.5 percent...

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