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Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?
May 15, 2013 - On 3 September 2005 – less than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast – I began to understand that America cared little about what was happening in New Orleans.
I was an undergraduate at Davidson College in North Carolina at the time, worried out of my mind because my family in Mississippi was still without electricity and friends and family in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast were still missing. The images of families stranded on rooftops were trickling in via news outlets, but it was obvious that the response from the government would be slow. Read more at theguardian.co.uk.
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Why no one takes impeaching Obama seriously
May 22, 2013 - The Republican party is playing with fire. If House Republicansactually file articles of impeachment against the first African-American president, they can kiss the black vote goodbye, forever.
And the Hispanic vote, the Asian vote, and the South Asian vote. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Robin Roberts to write memoir about illness
May 22, 2013 - NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Roberts will tell the story of her battle with a life-threatening illness in a new memoir.
Grand Central Publishing says the “Good Morning America” anchor will be writing the as-yet-untitled book for publication next April. Read more at thegrio.com.
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9-year-old identified as Oklahoma tornado victim
May 22, 2013 - 9-year-old girl who was “always smiling” is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified.
Third-grader Ja’Nae Hornsby was one of the students who perished when the twister demolished Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. on Monday afternoon. Read more at thegrio.com.
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[FATHER/HOOD] Biological Didn’t Bother
When my daughter was born, I didn’t experience the love at first sight that so many parents talk about. In fact, I felt nothing. As I cut her cord, I descended into thinking that it was this absence of feeling that caused my father to leave me when I was less than a day old. As I held her swaddled nine-pound body, I descended further into wondering if there was going to be something wrong with me. Did I have an anti-child gene? Was I an absent father sleeper agent—as soon as the baby arrived, I’d activate and get as far away from it as I possibly could? Would I stay around? Read more at ebony.com.
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Garcia apologizes for joking he’d serve ‘fried chicken’ to Tiger Woods
May 22, 2013 - Sergio Garcia’s feud with Tiger Woods has deepened, with the Spaniard denying accusations of racism after “fried chicken” comments during an awards dinner.
Garcia appeared on stage at the European Tour’s awards dinner in England on Tuesday and was asked in jest if he would invite Woods to dinner during the U.S. Open. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Tyrese and Ludacris: ‘We want Halle Berry in ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise’
May 22, 2013 - Tyrese Gibson and Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges have teamed up for Fast & Furious 6, the latest installment of the Fast & Furiousfranchise. The pair star alongside Vin Diesel, Dwanye Johnson, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. TheGrio got a change to catch up with Tyrese and Ludacris while they were in London promoting the film. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Rapper Chief Keef arrested at hotel near Atlanta
May 22, 2013 - Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Police spokesman Timothy Fecht says officers arrested Cozart after responding to a call about illegal drug activity at the Le Méridien hotel just north of Atlanta Monday afternoon. Fecht says officers saw smoke and smelled marijuana wafting from a room. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Child-Support Laws: A Boon for Gold Diggers?
May 22, 2013 - Just when it seemed Charlie Sheen's story couldn't get any more depressing for him, his fans and his family, things have managed to take a turn for the worse. His estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, has been admitted to rehab for drug addiction, something she's struggled with for years.
Despite the fact that her twin toddlers with Sheen have previously been cared for by his first wife, actress Denise Richards, during some of Mueller's previous stints in rehab, Mueller has attempted to have the twins removed from Richards' custody. The reason, Sheen's lawyers allege, is that the $55,000 a month in child support that Sheen is paying Mueller is her sole source of income. Read more at theroot.com.
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Obama, Blacks and Personal Responsibility
May 22, 2013 - President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama addressed freshly minted African American graduates over the weekend, reopening a debate that has dogged him since he was a candidate. On such occasions, how much emphasis should he give to addressing the "personal responsibility" of African Americans? How much should he focus instead on the responsibility of the government he leads to address African Americans' plight?
Underlying the question is the obvious fact that Obama is the nation's first black president and African Americans are his most loyal voting bloc. What is Obama's own responsibility? Read more at theroot.com.
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Obama Administration Mistakes Journalism for Espionage
May 22, 2013 - The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists' phone records, perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn't chilling, it's just plain cold.
It also may well be unconstitutional. In my reading, the First Amendment prohibition against "abridging the freedom ... of the press" should rule out secretly obtaining two months' worth of the personal and professional phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, including calls to and from the main AP phone number at the House press gallery in the Capitol. Yet this is what the Justice Department did. Read more at theroot.com.
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White Dad Accused of Kidnapping Biracial Daughters
May 22, 2013 - A Virginia family is understandably a little shaken up after the father, Joseph -- a white man who didn't want his last name revealed -- was suspected of kidnapping two biracial girls. They just happened to be his daughters. Oops. According to the mom, Keana (whose presence at the store likely would have cleared things up and avoided the ordeal), it all started when a customer at the Walmart where dad and daughters were shopping became concerned that the family "didn't match up." A security guard was alerted, and next thing they knew, a police officer was at their door. Read more at theroot.com.
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Kanye West, 'New Slaves' and Hypocrisy
May 22, 2013 - Ernest Owens rips into Kanye West's new single at the Huffington Post, lamenting that the singer knows more than other rappers, yet "does nothing to fix the problem. "Everyone has that one cousin in the family that never tends to shut up at the dinner table. They complain about how the world is wicked and how all of us are just pawns in the middle of it. Some of what they say is enlightening, insightful, and makes sense. Yet, a lot of it gets mumbled in between blatant disrespectful rants and overblown ignorance. When it comes to hip-hop and mainstream music, that cousin would be Kanye West..." Read more at theroot.com.
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Anthony Weiner Enters 2013 New York Mayoral Race
May 22, 2013 - Anthony Weiner officially kicked off his New York mayoral campaign late Tuesday with a video announcement posted to YouTube.
The former New York congressman resigned in 2011 after posting a lewd photo of himself on Twitter. Weiner-- who is married to former top aide to Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, with whom he now has a son-- lied and said his account had been hacked. He later admitted to sending inappropriate online messages to six women. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Ibragim Todashev, Questioned In Connection With Marathon Bombings, Shot And Killed By Police: Reports
May 22, 2013 - NBC News reports that an FBI agent shot and killed a man who had been interviewed over ties to April's Boston Marathon bombing. The individual, identified by friends as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, reportedly knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older, deceased Boston suspect through the world of Mixed Martial Arts. He had been initially cooperative with police, according to WESH-TV in Orlando. But at some point during the interview process, he allegedly attacked an officer, who then fired his weapon. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Oklahoma Tornado Recovery: Rescuers Search Rubble For Buried Survivors
May 22, 2013 - Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights combed through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, homes and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb. The massive tornado on Monday afternoon flattened blocks of the town, killed at least 24 people and injured about 240 in Moore, just outside Oklahoma City. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Woman Allegedly Stabs Stepdad Multiple Times
May 22, 2013 - Crawford, 19, and Vince Anderson, 51, were arguing over the location of an EBT card, according to the West Cobb Patch.
“The accused stated the victim grabbed her by the arm and tried to remove her from the residence,” according to a warrant obtained by The Patch. “The accused admitted to removing a silver in color folding pocket knife from her pocket and striking the victim on the head and neck area causing cuts and lacerations to the victims head and neck.” Read more at newsone.com.
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Panel: Apple Uses Firms Outside U.S. To Avoid Taxes
May 22, 2013 - Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world’s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish subsidiary that earned $22 billion in 2011 paid only $10 million in taxes, according to the report issued Monday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Read more at newsone.com.
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Homeless Teen Graduates At Top Of Her High School Class
May 22, 2013 - Even though Chelesa Fearce (pictured) was homeless for most of her high school years, the young dynamo will still manage to graduate high school with honors on Thursday as its star student and the class valedictorian, reports WSBTV.
During Fearce’s high school years, her and her family experienced multiple evictions because her mother,Reenita Shephard, had unsteady employment. Read more at newsone.com.
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President Obama to speak on Oklahoma disaster
May 21, 2013 - President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday.
Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. The president also spoke Monday with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Rep. Tom Cole, whose home is in the heavily damaged town of Moore. Read more at thegrio.com.
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