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January 8, 2010
An interesting point of view from Businesspundit.com Does an American company have a responsibility to avoid producing content that would
January 8, 2010
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Fast food giant KFC has pulled an Australian television advertisement after it was branded racist in…
January 8, 2010
OPINION - Some black folks are upset by a controversial KFC ad that has many claiming the company is perpetuating…
January 8, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is praising Michael Steele in his first year as chairman…
January 8, 2010
The topic of race identification on the upcoming U.S. Census was brought up on Glenn Beck's radio program and controversial…
January 8, 2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as…
January 8, 2010
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's widespread use of a written exam to promote police sergeants discriminates against blacks and…
January 8, 2010
OPINION - Technological changes in the last decade made it so that you could fit your entire music collection, thousands…
January 8, 2010
OPINION - I believe we have bigger fish to fry with the census than the use of Negro. "Like what?"…
January 7, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- A larger-than-life President Barack Obama became a presidential pitchman Wednesday on a Times Square billboard that…
January 7, 2010
Manny Pacquiao's promoters said his prospective bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was dead late Wednesday night after a mediation session…
January 7, 2010
VIDEO - David A. Wilson, managing editor of theGrio.com, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the term "Negro"…
January 7, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman is in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering what he believes…
January 7, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Former NBA star Jayson Williams is set to answer drunken-driving charges from a hospital following the…
January 7, 2010
OPINION - Meet Harold Ford Jr., a former Congressman from Tennessee who has now become the next Barack Obama, at…
January 7, 2010
OPINION - Don't get me wrong, being thick can be a wonderful thing, but not at the expense of our…
January 7, 2010
Andre Dawson was elected to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame in his ninth try, while Bert Blyleven and Roberto…
January 6, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in a prison…
January 6, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Mayor Sheila Dixon fought back tears as she announced her resignation and thanked her staff for its…
January 6, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBA commissioner David Stern has indefinitely suspended Gilbert Arenas, saying the Washington Wizards guard is "not…