20 Most Recent Stories

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  Category: front | Sharon D. Toomer


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  Category: world/americas | bleugargoyle


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  Category: pop/music | bleugargoyle


• Paterno, Piety and Penn State: The Conversation No One Wants
  Category: america | editor


• Fewer than 2 percent of the 47,000 members of the United States Chess Federation are masters — and just 13 of them are under the age of 14. Among that select group of prodigies are three black playe
  Category: america | editor


• Abuse of Power: How AT&T Forced Me to Pay for No Service and Freedom
  Category: consumer | Sharon D. Toomer


• Study: Rate of antidepressant use among Americans of all ages increased nearly 400 percent over last two decades; 11 percent of Americans aged 12 and older now take antidepressant drugs.
  Category: america/healthcare | editor


• Arts Funding Doesn't Show Diversity. Billions of dollars in arts funding is serving a mostly wealthy, white audience that is shrinking while only a small chunk of money goes to emerging art groups tha
  Category: Pop&Culture | editor


• Elouise Cobell, leader of landmark Native American lawsuit, dies at 65
  Category: america | editor


• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: Funding for Latinos Still Woefully Low
  Category: america | editor


• The Passing of Piri Thomas 1928-2011. Beloved Puerto Rican-American author and poet.
  Category: Pop&Culture | editor


• (Video) Decorated Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas addresses New City Police Offiers
  Category: america | editor


• March on City Hall Calls for End to ‘Stop and Frisk.’ “N.Y.P.D. Keep Your Hands Off Me.”
  Category: america/justice | editor


• KFI’s ‘John and Ken’ show loses advertisers as Latinos protest. Verizon and AT&T Wireless have pulled their advertising.
  Category: america | editor


• NYPD cop Michael Daragjati taped making racial slurs about black man; accused of false arrest. "I fried another n-----."
  Category: america/justice | editor


• BBN Reminder: The phrase "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a poem written and recorded by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970. Due credit for that legacy goes to Mr. Scott-Heron.
  Category: america | editor


• Wall Street protest worries Mexicans. “Since they started, we have seen a lot of movement, and last week it scared me a little because there were a lot of arrests. Sometimes you could get mixed into t
  Category: america | editor


• Charles Schumer's Wall Street dance.
  Category: america/politics | editor


• Wall Street money rains on Chuck Schumer
  Category: america/politics | editor


• Rev. Flake 'looting' lesson. Got 340G a year while destroying black college: profs
  Category: america/education | editor