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(NPR) – The African-American experience is reflected, right now, on the walls of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Exuberant dancing in Chicago. Laundry on a line in the nation’s capital. A girl smiling out from her father’s warm jacket — all captured in photographs, paintings and sculptures from the 1920s through the [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) Floyd Mayweather Jr. finally found himself in a real fight, complete with a bloody nose and an opponent in Miguel Cotto who was never going to quit. As usual, he found a way to win. Mayweather used his speed and accuracy Saturday night to take a unanimous decision over a game Cotto in a bruising bout to [...]
NEW YORK — Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons says Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, has died at age 47. Calls and emails to representatives for the Beastie Boys were not immediately returned. Simmons’ Def Jam label released the Beastie Boys’ first album, “Licensed to Ill.” The cause [...]
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) – Former NFL star Junior Seau was found shot to death at his home Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43. Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau’s girlfriend reported finding him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest and lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful. A [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Thirteen people have been charged in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major from DeKalb County who died after being hazed aboard a band bus in Orlando last fall, authorities said Wednesday. Florida State Attorney Lawson Lamar said he would not immediately release the names of those charged since they [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared last night that after years of sacrifice, the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down, just as it has already ended in Iraq. “We can see the light of a new day,” he said on the anniversary [...]
NEW YORK — New name. New borough. New arena. New logos, too. The Brooklyn Nets unveiled their brand-new logos on Monday morning. The Nets will have a black and white color scheme, which pays homage to the old New York subway signage system. The Nets will have a pair of primary logos. The first features [...]
WASHINGTON (AP)— President Barack Obama scattered the barbs during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as he poked fun at White House races past and present, the Secret Service and Donald Trump. Even the entrance to his speech Saturday night was part of his schtick. The president walked off stage just before he took [...]
(Reuters) – Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III headlined the 2012 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday as expected but after that a flurry of wheeling and dealing marked the first-round of the prime-time event. The Indianapolis Colts kicked off the annual draft party that filled three balconies at the venerable Manhattan [...]
By Clarence Page A class-action suit filed by two black men claims”The Bachelor”turned them away because they were not white. I think they should feel relieved. Having the right to embarrass yourself on national television doesn’t mean you actually should do it. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of people seeking fame by way of the [...]
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