Are children color blind? What is the attitude of young children to skin color? And how did ti get that way? CNN takes a sobering in depth look. ...
Posted Tuesday, May 18th 2010 at 8:19AM
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It was the middle of the night. Something woke me out of a deep sleep. It was so dark my eyes were useless. But I could still hear. Somebody was moving. There was a gentle sound of bare feet tapping on the dirt floor.
I was half asleep ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 9:43PM
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Twenty-five slaves lived in three log and daub cabins on our tobacco farm. We had no windows but we didn’t need any. The walls were not solid. There were spaces between the slats that did nothing to keep out cold and rain. I could lie in bed an ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 9:42PM
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Well, my friends, the time has come
Raise the roof and have some fun
Throw away the work to be done
Let the music play on
Everbody sing, everybody dance
Lose yourself in wild romance
We're going to;
Party, karamu, fiesta, foreve ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 9:15PM
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AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO RUINED OUR OCEANS...
With early plans to contain the spill being dubbed "The Top Hat" or "The Junk Shot," it's easy to imagine that the strategies were coming from the minds of 5-year-olds. Well, according to ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 3:12PM
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ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND (SynergEbooks 2010) tells the improbable story of history’s first successful attempt to fly. According to Josiah Brantley, born a slave in Virginia, it wasn’t the Wright Brothers who did it.
In this fictional firs ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 3:01PM
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“It is a strange history. Its truth is stranger than fiction.” Frederick Douglass, 1853
“She used to dream of flying over fields and towns and rivers and mountains, looking down upon them ‘like a bird’”. Harriet Tubman, Franklin S ...
Posted Sunday, May 16th 2010 at 8:55PM
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“ONCE UPON A TIME…”
“I believe that one of the principal ways in which we acquire, hold and digest information is via narrative. So I hope you will understand when the remarks I make begin with what I believe to be the first sentence of ou ...
Posted Sunday, May 16th 2010 at 8:52PM
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Stephen Colbert loves Glenn Beck. So much that he even bought his cologne, Patriot Tears. And as an avid fan, he couldn't help but notice that the Fox News host gone from calling himself a "Rodeo Clown" (an apt analogy as both "work with bullsh--t") ...
Posted Friday, May 14th 2010 at 10:11AM
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Keith Olbermann did not mince words Thursday night in naming Sarah Palin his "Worst Person in the World."
While speaking outside Chicago this week, Palin mocked Rachel Maddow and MSNBC. Describing a store clerk who found out someone was from Alask ...
Posted Friday, May 14th 2010 at 9:48AM
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SHE WON THE JOB OVER MORE THAN 15 OTHER APPLICANTS—TWO FORMER NFL PLAYERS, POP WARNER COACHES AND A RETIRED ARMY GENERAL. SHE EMPHASIZED ONE THING THOSE MEN DID NOT—HELPING THE PLAYERS IN THE CLASSROOM.
“I HOPE THEY KNOW THAT I REALLY DO ...
Posted Monday, May 10th 2010 at 7:50AM
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“YOU’RE COMING OF AGE IN A 24/7 MEDIA ENVIRONMENT THAT BOMBARDS US WITH ALL KINDS OF CONTENT AND EXPOSES US TO ALL KINDS OF ARGUMENTS, SOME OF WHICH DON’T RANK ALL THAT HIGH ON THE TRUTH METER. WE CAN’T STOP THESE CHANGES BUT WE CAN ADAPT T ...
Posted Monday, May 10th 2010 at 7:47AM
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MS. MANDERSON HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO PEOPLE SAYING SHE COULD NOT DO WHAT SHE WANTED AND HAD LEARNED TO IGNORE THE NOT-SO-SUBTLE ADMONITIONS THAT PERHAPS HER AMBITIONS WERE TOO BIG, GIVEN HER DISABILITY. AT A JOB FAIR, A PRINCIPAL WARNED HER THAT TH ...
Posted Sunday, May 2nd 2010 at 9:10PM
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HOW BASEBALL IS LIKE LIFE.
A famous scene in the comic baseball movie “Major League II” came when fictitious Indians center fielder Willie Mays Hayes — played by Omar Epps — dashes home, where White Sox catcher Jack Parkman — portraye ...
Posted Saturday, May 1st 2010 at 9:45AM
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“If the debate is: ‘I don't like your programs,’ or ‘I don't like the philosophy of the judges you have the right to appoint,’ that's a very different conversation than ‘You are a tyrant subverting the constitution,’ because that's a ve ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 3:07PM
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I’VE BEEN A COP FOR 52 YEARS AND I’M NOT SURE WHAT ‘REASONABLE SUSPICION’ MEANS.”
“My guess is, “ the Sherriff said, “there will be several lawsuits raised and when the courts take a look at this they are going to issue an inj ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 8:51AM
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“I’M NOT GOING BACK TO ARIZONA AS LONG AS IT REMAINS A POLICE STATE, WHICH IS WHAT THE APPALLING ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILL THAT THE GOVERNOR SIGNED INTO LAW LAST WEEK TURNED INTO.”
by LINDA GREENHOUSE
I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand ...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:45PM
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LONDON - British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life.
Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 8:48PM
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S ANDY SAMBERG AND GABOUREY SIDIBE FACE OFF IN COMPETITION, ONE ON ONE, MANO A MANO, TO SEE WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS IN THE BATTLE OF PRECISION CHERRY SPITTING.
And the winner is…
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Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 2:21PM
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ANDERSON COOPER: “BUT I MEAN THE INFORMATION IS OUT THERE. IT HAS BEEN RELEASED. SOME PEOPLE DON’T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THE MOON IS MADE OUT OF CHEESE.”
Have you heard that the Birthers are making a come ...
Posted Thursday, April 22nd 2010 at 3:43PM
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A correspondent for New Left Media ventured out among the tea partiers during their tax day protests in Washington D.C. to interview them about what it is that's fueling their fierce opposition to to the government in general and President Obama in p ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 5:30PM
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Bill Hader made an appearance as James Carville last night on "Weekend Update," and had some fun at the Tea Baggers expense. Referring to their dispeasure with Obama poking fun at them, Carville pretty much spelled it out:
"You can't dress how you ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 10:37AM
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Rachel Maddow talks with Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson about the S.E.C. lawsuit against Goldman-Sachs and the ill-advised Republican opposition to financial reform.
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Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 10:48AM
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AT FIRST I THOUGHT, “WOW! THIS IS MUCH MORE DIVERSE THAN THE RALLIES I’VE SEEN ON TELEVISION.” THEN I REALIZED THAT I WAS LOOKING AT STADIUM WORKERS. I SHOULD HAVE FIGURED IT OUT WHEN THE GREETER ASKED, “ARE YOU WORKING TONIGHT?”
On ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 9:18AM
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“I AM NOT A PUPPET MASTER. I CAN’T PULL STRINGS AND MAKE THEM PERFORM,” SAID ONE MIAMI-DADE TEACHER. “I CAN’T EVEN MAKE THEM COME TO SCHOOL.”
MIAMI — Gov. Charlie Crist has been jawboned and buttonholed as he has traveled around ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 9:22AM
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