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From ThinkProgress.org: While working on his article published yesterday in the New York Times highlighting the right-wing media’s “misleading coverage,” reporter Brian Stelter did some background research into cable news viewership demographics. While he didn’t include the findings in his story, he found them notable enough to publish on Twitter. The Huffington Post summarizes the […]

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From the AJC.com: Bernice King, the youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has decided she will not take the position of president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the group’s annual convention next month, a spokesman said Tuesday. Bernard LaFayette said King would wait until a Fulton County judge has resolved the […]

The newest cast member of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” got married last weekend and let’s just say things could have gone a lot smoother. Newcomer Cynthia Bailey’s marriage in Atlanta to restaurateur Peter Thomas was held up for 45 minutes by castmate NeNe Leakes, who barged into Bailey’s bridal suite and demanded her hair […]

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From AOL Health: Just when you thought you were making the right decision of selecting iced tea instead of soda, new studies show that iced tea raises the risk of kidney stones. If you’ve suffered from kidney stones this summer it may be because you had too much iced tea. The popular summertime beverage has […]

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NewsOne is reporting that magazine Essence is set to formally hire Elliana Placas, a former staff member of O! Magazine and US Weekly. The company that owns Essence, Time Warner, is reportedly behind the move to hire Placas as Fashion Director. It is obviously too soon to know what backlash the magazine might suffer as […]