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The New York Times editorial page threw its endorsements for the Democratic and Republican nominations behind Hillary Clinton and John McCain, respectively. The editorial page says it is impressed by Clinton’s experience and wonkishness (though it asks her to have Bill Clinton back off. The McCain endorsement trumpeted the Arizona Senator’s ability to reach across Read More

Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit’s hulking, scandal-prone mayor, testified under oath in a police whistle-blower trial that he and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, did not force out the city’s deputy police chief. The deputy police chief and another officer were suing because they allege they were fired for conducting an investigation of members of Kilpatrick’s Read More

In the storm of even-less-concealed-than-usual animosity that was last night’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, John Edwards seemed determined to play the role of calm, expensively-coiffured port. His tsk-tsking, goody two-shoes though it may have been, reflected what a lot of us were thinking. John Edwards wanted his competitors to stop bickering and start addressing some Read More

Fisk University, the imperiled HBCU in Nashville, is having a hard time making money off the artwork bequeathed to it by Georgia O’Keeffe, that painter of colorful vaginas flowers. Fisk’s trustees in December 2005 voted to try to sell off two signature pieces of the art collection donated by the New Mexico artist to help Read More

Michael K. Williams sat down with Terry Gross on Fresh Air to discuss how he got his scar, being homeless, his checkered past in Flatbush and being cast as Omar on The Wire. It’s probably the only time you’ll hear “Don’t get it twisted!” in an NPR interview. Michael K. Williams: He’s Only Playing Tough. Read More

Genarlow Wilson’s story is pretty well-known by now: the popular 17-year-old honors student and football standout went to a New Year’s Eve party in a hotel, where he received oral sex from a 15-year-old schoolmate, a videotape surfaced, and Wilson was charged with aggravated child molestation, convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Wilson Read More

Yesterday morning, Entertainment Weekly posted a rather engaging article about Wesley Snipes on its website. The piece chronicles the actor’s fall from public grace, his recent spate of straight-to-DVD films (His last five have gone the way of the Blockbuster shelf), and his ongoing legal woes — from the Blade:Trinity battle supposedly responsible for his Read More

So funny, so sad. Elna Baker, an aspiring actress in New York City, worked at FAO Schwartz to make ends meet. She was hired to play a nurse in an elaborate toy demonstration to get little girls to ‘adopt’ expensive realistic ‘newborns’ the store was selling. One day, an MTV reality show filmed a segment Read More

I thought I had read yesterday’s headline before: “L.A. Times editor is forced out.” In fact, I had – four times in the past three years.

We know where they stand on energy, economy, and the war. John McCain’s favorite foods are shrimp and pepperoni and onion pizza, Barack Obama (still) loves “The Wire”, and yes, Hillary Clinton does know how to text message her daughter (thanks for clearing that up, Tyra). From stump speeches to televised debates, however, the candidates’ Read More

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