VIA: New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce Tuesday night that he will begin to transition American forces out of Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, setting the first time frame to wind down the war there nearly a decade after the United States first sent troops in to topple the Taliban government, […]
VIA: NewsOne.com Tiger Woods has canceled plans to attend his own golf tournament in southern California because of injuries he suffered near his Florida home early Friday, the pro golfer said in a statement Monday. “I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,” Woods said of the Chevron World […]
VIA: People The so-called “other woman” who supposedly sparked Tiger Woods’s accident has hired a high-profile celebrity lawyer and issued an adamant denial about any relationship with the golfing champ. “I did not have any involvement with him [Woods],” Rachel Uchitel told E! News. “Whatever was written in the Enquirer was not said by me, […]
VIA: New York Times On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be a national holiday of Thanksgiving. That came just over a year after Lincoln made another more historic proclamation, one that directly concerned my family and their future: the Emancipation Proclamation, which had freed the enslaved in […]
VIA: Washington Post These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother’s one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy. As a young black man, Spriggs belongs to […]
VIA: AJC.com Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will begin a one-year professorship at Spelman College starting in January, college officials announced Monday. Franklin will serve as a Cosby Chair, an endowed professorship program started by the comedian and activist Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille. The program supports professorships in humanities, fine arts and social sciences, […]
VIA: AJC.com The government is still waiting to hear from almost 20,000 flood victims in Georgia who picked up applications for Small Business Administration loans but have not returned them yet. The deadline is Monday, Nov. 23. “We need them postmarked that day,” said Richard Daigle, a spokesman for the SBA. The loans cover losses […]
VIA: New York Times On his last day in China, President Obama went to see the Great Wall. At around 3:32 p.m. on Wednesday, Mr. Obama’s motorcade arrived at the wall’s Badaling section, which snakes over jagged, rocky mountains. The usual cacophony of vendors at the wall was absent as the whole place was largely […]
VIA: Allhiphop.com Hip-Hop activist Erica Ford, CEO and founder of Life Camp Inc., is teaming with the Reverend Al Sharpton to lead an emergency day of protest against violence across the country, on November 23rd. Sharpton will lead a rally in Atlanta Georgia while other rallies are scheduled to take place in major cities such […]
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VIA: New York Times The icon is a very old man now. His hair is white, his body frail. Visitors say Nelson Mandela leans heavily on a cane when he walks into his study. He slips off his shoes, lowers himself into a stiff-backed chair and lifts each leg onto a cushioned stool. His wife, […]
VIA: CNN.com It may come down to a tale of the videotape. A publicist for Mike Tyson said the former boxing champ was merely defending his wife and 10-month-old child after an altercation with an overaggressive photographer at LAX on Wednesday. “Mike acted in self-defense as a father protecting his child,” said Tyson’s spokeswoman Tammy […]