From NYT: Don Cornelius, the producer and television host who created the dance show “Soul Train,” was found shot dead in his Los Angeles home early Wednesday morning in what appears to be a suicide, the Los Angeles Police Department and the county coroner’s office said. He was 75 years…
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From Colorlines: Human Rights Watch released a report last week, Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States, that details a new challenge created by the extreme sentences dished out over the past generation. According to the report, in 2010 there were 124,400 prisoners—8 percent of inmates—aged…
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From The Root: A Philadelphia woman who told police that two black men kidnapped her — and was later found to have lied — was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bonnie Sweeten, 40, who made headlines two years ago after triggering a massive…
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From The Root: Everyone knows it’s hard to talk about fiscal responsibility without referring to a slave ship with President Obama at the helm. OK, so that’s not true at all. But it is the bizarre approach a Republican congressional candidate has chosen to communicate his campaign’s message. (4)
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From Colorlines: he New York Times reported that the New York Police Department showed nearly 1,500 of its officers “The Third Jihad,” a 72-minute documentary that casts Muslim Americans as ubiquitously engaged in “a strategy to infiltrate and dominate America.” It was the latest item in a growing list of…
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From Chicago Tribune: The Obama administration on Friday announced it would significantly broaden the pool of consumers eligible for mortgage modifications by opening its program to owners of rental properties and homeowners burdened by medical and credit card bills and second mortgages. Under an expansion of the Home Affordable Modification…
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From NYT: Lawyers for Alejandrina Cabrera, a candidate for the City Council in the border community of San Luis, Ariz., said Thursday that they might appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court a lower-court ruling that Ms. Cabrera be removed from the ballot because she did not speak English proficiently. Judge…
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NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman KuringWhat Mother Earth looks like from space in 2012, courtesy of NASA satellite Suomi NPP. (5)
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