A documentary airing tonight on PBS tells the story of the five young black and Latino men wrongly convicted of the 1989 assault and rape of a white female jogger in Manhattan’s Central Park. Ken Burns made the film with his eldest daughter, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. Movies
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‘Central Park Five’: Rape, Race And Blame Explored
By admin on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 | Comments Off
How to protect a 26-mile race? London hikes security
By admin on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 | Comments Off
LONDON — British authorities ordered more police on the streets for Sunday’s London Marathon in the wake of the Boston bombings, but experts warned it was “virtually impossible” to guarantee the safety of the hundreds of thousands who will attend the event. NBCNews.com: World news
Read More...Bilbo Baggins Leads Best Hero Race Heading Into MTV Movie Awards
By admin on Sunday, April 14th, 2013 | Comments Off
We are literally minutes away from the start of the MTV Movie Awards, and things are looking pretty good for Bilbo Baggins. With more than 1.6 million hashtags mentions on Twitter and Instagram, the hobbit has this thing pretty much locked up, so let’s celebrate in the GIFs below! Will Jennifer Lawrence get her silver [...]
Read More...Bilbo Fans ‘Put A Ring On’ Bella Swan For Best Hero Race
By admin on Friday, April 12th, 2013 | Comments Off
You’ve got to hand it to those “Hobbit” fans. They can sure work some video editing magic. The latest and perhaps most innovative piece of Tolkien propaganda comes from the folks over at TheOneRing.net and Vimeo user Speigel Ei, and tries to court Bella Swan to the #votebilbo team for the Best Hero category at [...]
Read More...Rand Paul’s Twisted History Blames GOP Race Problem on Depression-Era Gifts
By admin on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 | Comments Off
As promised, Rand Paul offered a lesson on the secret history of the Republican Party and black people in a speech to students at Howard University, a historically-black college, on Wednesday. Paul's version of history was not all that different than the one offered last month at CPAC's "Trump the Race Card" panel, a history [...]
Read More...Charges Fly In Ky. Senate Race After McConnell Tape Surfaces
By admin on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | Comments Off
The senator and his aides are heard discussing potential opponent Ashley Judd and what personal issues they might use against her. A McConnell aide says the campaign’s offices may have been bugged and accuses the “far left” of “Nixonian tactics.” Politics
Read More...Rand Paul Confronts the GOP’s Race Problem
By admin on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | Comments Off
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul will give a speech Wednesday at Howard University, the historically black college, about the history of black voters and the Republican Party. It will be interesting to see what version of GOP history Paul decides to tell. Since the 2012 election, Republicans have been looking to reach out to minority voters, [...]
Read More...Oilers fall further out of playoff race with loss to Ducks
By admin on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | Comments Off
Defenceman Nick Schultz ended a 58-game goal drought and Devan Dubnyk stopped 36 shots for the Oilers, who have lost three straight globeandmail – Sports
Read More...Scientists race to gauge pandemic risk of new bird flu
By admin on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 | Comments Off
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Genetic sequence data on a deadly strain of bird flu previously unknown in people show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic, scientists say. But there is no evidence so far that the H7N9 flu – now known [...]
Read More...New York Politicians Accused In Plot To Sell GOP Spot In NYC Mayoral Race
By admin on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 | Comments Off
Authorities allege that state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D) tried to bribe some GOP officials — and that they were willing to take his money. Smith has said he is innocent. Politics
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