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Los Angeles– Elgin Baylor is suing Clippers owner Donald Sterling for false termination. Baylor is claiming that Sterling refused to pay for African American talent and would offend African American players. ESPN reports: “During this same period, players Sam Cassell, Elton Brand and Corey Maggette complained to me that DONALD STERLING would bring women into […]

New York — Today, as promised, the Congress read the Constitution out loud today. Or parts of it. They actually opted to only read the Constitution-as-amended, meaning among other things they left out the three-fifths compromise that declared slaves to be the equivalent of three-fifths of a full vote.  They also left out the 18th […]

Reports are coming out of Georgia that prison guards have retaliated with violence in response to the Georgia Prison strike that took place last month. According to Georgia State NAACP President Edward Dubose, inmates have been beaten with hammers and other foreign objects allegedly in retaliation for their participation in the strike. President Dubose says […]

MINNESOTA Terry Allen Lester is being charged with felony counts of creating an explosive device and making terroristic threats after police found an explosive device rigged to a sex toy sent to an ex girlfriend. WCCO reports: The criminal complaint says police found a sex toy inside the package that had been modified with gun […]

From Huffington Post Seattle — In the age of Obama, there just aren’t as many young black Republicans as there are Democrats. Always the ones to challenge political cliches, The Second City Network made this sketch parodying the plight of the young black Republican and what the party needs to do to branch out. Inside […]

Detroit– The Queen of Soul is not one to divulge much about her personal life away from the spotlight. She is known to be an intensely private person. Speaking exclusively to JET for the third interview since announcing that doctors advised she cancel all concerts until May because of her health, she says: “I am […]

WASHINGTON – If a crying woman’s red nose isn’t a big enough turnoff to a man, a surprising experiment found another reason: Tears of sadness may temporarily lower his testosterone level. Those tears send a chemical signal as the man gets close enough to sniff them — even though there’s no discernible odor, say researchers […]

MIAMI — President Barack Obama has agreed to conduct an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly as part of a pregame package for Fox Broadcasting Channel’s Super Bowl coverage, an Obama administration official confirmed to The Huffington Post.

WASHINGTON – Two packages detonated in the mailrooms of two Maryland state government buildings on Thursday, but no one was seriously injured, officials said. Investigators had yet to identify a suspect or make any arrests, a Maryland state official said. “Explosion may be too strong of a word. The packages were smoldering. In one case […]

WASHINGTON D.C.– Cell phone footage of a man being beat up by a group of children at the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington D.C has been circulated over the internet through the site Worldstarhiphop. The man, Allen Haywood, claims he was attacked for no apparent reason. TBD reports: As he read with his back […]