Hip-Hop’s king and queen are supporting President Obama in a big way.
On September 18, Jay-Z and Beyoncé are set to host a fundraiser for Obama’s re-election campaign at the 40/40 Club in New York City. The event will be the last in New York befor ...
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Exclusive: BET.com reports from the Hip Hop Caucus -- Respect My Vote summit aimed at empowering and educating young voters. (2012)
This year’s Respect My Vote representative is 2 Chainz. The Atlanta rapper was a first-time voter in the 2008 elect ...
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Mostafa Hefney has been on a decades-long fight to stop being called white.
hen Mostafa Hefney moved to America from Egypt back in 1978, he was eager to begin his new life as an American. But then something a U.S. government interviewer told him thr ...
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Colin Rodney, a barber based in Bedford Stuyvesant, hopes his “Barbers for Obama” campaign will go national.
Throughout the course of this year’s presidential campaign, Colin Rodney listened to incessant, animated conversations in his Brooklyn bar ...
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By Liam Ford
Tribune reporter
5:18 p.m. CDT, September 15, 2012
Adel Daoud, 18, of Hillside, was arrested Friday night when he tried to blow up what he thought was a car bomb in front of a downtown bar after undercover federal agents supplied hi ...
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I grew up on Paul Hardcastle's music and it is such a shame that timeless classics like this aren't getting airwaves ...
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Kanye West is the most recent hip hop artist to address Mitt Romney in a song. Unlike Nicki Minaj, who caused much controversy by claiming to be a "Republican voting for Mitt Romney" in her track, which she later explained was a subliminal dig at the ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 7:13PM
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The acting is bad, the dialogue is bad, the green-screen effects are almost mind-boggling in their awfulness. The actors and crew involved have released a statement saying they were duped by the film-maker; a man going by the pseudonym 'Sam Bacile.' ...
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"An IED detonates during a footage patrol killing 2 ANP, and injuring 3 boys from B Co 2-30 IN 4/10 MTN DIV. Included about 50 seconds before the blast, to show what a a typical patrol is like (hours of walking), and about 90 seconds after the blast, ...
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This breakthrough in negotiations comes on the fifth day of the teachers strike. Both sides announced they reached the agreement in principle early Friday afternoon Many details still need to be worked out in the agreement. Once that work is done, th ...
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Earlier this week, the Census Bureau released its latest income and poverty data for the year 2011. The major headline in most newspapers and media outlets was the notion that the national poverty rate remained virtually unchanged from the previous y ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 6:11PM
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WASHINGTON -- Over the past few weeks, the Romney campaign has repeatedly pointed to five separate studies supporting the candidate's contention that a dramatic, across-the-board, reduction in tax rates can be paid for by economic growth and the elim ...
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POSTED BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO ON FRI, SEP 14, 2012 AT 9:12 AM
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s long and illustrious political star plummeted when the Brits rightly opposed being dragged into President George W. Bush’s Iraq War. The British ...
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One of several controversial “voter ID” laws is on trial in the state where American democracy was born.
The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, which sits in Philadelphia, is deciding an appeal of the state's new law, which requires citizens to sho ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 4:52PM
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Obama: Americans laid down lives 'in service to us all'
Editor's note: Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world. Friday's protests follow o ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 4:44PM
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The violence in the Middle East has renewed questions about which countries get U.S. foreign aid and whether they deserve it.
Some House conservatives wanted to strip foreign aid to Libya and Egypt from a six-month funding bill set for a vote toda ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 4:40PM
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/graphic-photos-allegedly-show-attempt-to-rescue-u-s-ambassador-content-warning/
A graphic photo has surfaced online allegedly showing the “attempts to rescue” U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in the final moments of hi ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 11:27PM
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