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Iman “Not a Great Beauty” Either, Especially Without Her Make-Up

• March 8, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Africans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Fashion, Gossip, Michelle Obama, People of Color, Women
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Comedian Joan Rivers Calls The First Lady “Blackie O”

• January 25, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in African American History, American History, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Love, Michelle Obama, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
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Iman: Michelle Obama “Not a Great Beauty”

• May 17, 2009 • 18 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Fashion, Michelle Obama, Race, Women
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Antiwar Activists Who Flee Russia Find Detention, Not Freedom, in the U.S. November 28, 2022
Thousands of Russians are crossing the U.S. southern border to claim asylum. Many are ending up in immigration prison. “I left Russia for a place just like Russia,” said one.
Biden Helped Democrats Avert a ’22 Disaster. What About ’24? November 28, 2022
A stronger-than-expected midterm showing has quieted the party’s public hand-wringing about a re-election campaign for President Biden. But it hasn’t put those worries to rest.
In Oxford School Shooting, Safety Policies Were Overlooked, Say Ex-Board Members November 29, 2022
The two former members said they resigned in September so that they could speak more freely about the tragedy last year in Michigan.
Another Patron Who Subdued Assailant at Club Q Acted to Save ‘the Family I Found’ November 28, 2022
Thomas James, a Navy petty officer, knocked down the attacker along with an Army veteran.
Supreme Court Defends Alito After Breach Allegation November 29, 2022
The court reiterated Justice Alito’s statement that neither he nor his wife disclosed a 2014 contraception ruling that a minister claims to have learned before it was public.
Republican-Controlled County in Arizona Holds Up Election Results November 29, 2022
Republican local officials are threatening to disrupt the final tally of midterm votes in one more sign of the politicization of elections.
Whole Foods to Stop Buying Maine Lobster Amid Risk to Endangered Whales November 29, 2022
Maine’s political leaders criticized the decision, which was based on assessments by two conservation groups that have raised concerns that North Atlantic right whales have become entangled in the ropes used to fish for lobster.
Trump’s Jewish Allies Denounce Dinner With Kanye West and Nick Fuentes November 29, 2022
Supporters who looked past the former president’s admirers in bigoted corners of the far right, and his own use of antisemitic tropes, now are drawing a line. “He legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters,” says one. “And this scares me.”

The Guardian, UK

Migrants travel from Nigeria to Canary Islands balanced on ship’s rudder November 28, 2022
The three stowaways were rescued by the Spanish Coastguard in Las Palmas on Monday after an 11-day voyageThe Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline.In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three […]
Gangs of cybercriminals are expanding across Africa, investigators say November 27, 2022
Online scams such as banking and credit card fraud are the most prevalent cyberthreat, says InterpolPolice and investigators fear organised gangs of fraudsters are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting new opportunities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis to make huge sums with little risk of being caught.The growth […]
Forgotten photos show how Kenyan archaeologists unearthed secrets of their own country November 27, 2022
Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial eraThe photographs are rare, the subject choice unusual, but what the photographer captured was a common sight in the early 20th century: a team of colonised people, hard at work under a hot sun, excavating an ancient monument.Today, without the […]
Tanzania drops murder charges against 24 Maasai leaders November 25, 2022
The pastoralists had been detained over the death of a police officer during protests against government plans to evict them from ancestral landProsecutors in Tanzania have dropped murder charges against 24 Maasai pastoralists who were detained over the death of a police officer earlier this year.The officer died in June during protests against government pl […]
Starvation being used as a weapon of war in South Sudan, report reveals November 25, 2022
International community urged to intervene as hundreds of thousands forced into refugee camps as homes and crops destroyed and aid workers attackedStarvation is being used as a weapon of war by South Sudan government forces against their own citizens, an investigation has found.Deliberate starvation tactics used by government forces and allied militia, and b […]
49 people sentenced to death for mob killing in Algeria November 25, 2022
The murder in 2021 came after a man was falsely accused of lighting deadly wildfires that he had come to help fightAn Algerian court has sentenced 49 people to death for the brutal mob killing of a painter who was suspected of starting devastating wildfires – but had actually come to help fight them, according to defence lawyers and the state news agency.The […]
Canadian man arrested for 1983 killings of two women after DNA breakthrough November 28, 2022
Police announce arrest of suspect in pair of 40-year-old sexual assaults and slayings in TorontoA 61-year-old Canadian man has been charged in the cold case killings of two women who were found dead in their Toronto homes within months of each other almost four decades ago.The Toronto police chief, James Ramer, said Joseph George Sutherland, of Moosonee, Ont […]
Mexico requests extradition of American charged in tourist death November 28, 2022
Shanquella Robinson reportedly died while on holiday after viral video shows her being beaten, apparently by an American womanThe US is weighing an extradition request from Mexico after authorities in the country charged an American woman with murdering another US woman shown being beaten while they vacationed in a viral video.Prosecutors in the Mexican stat […]

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Operation Desert Light: Europol take down massive cocaine 'super cartel' November 28, 2022
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Mauna Loa: World's largest active volcano erupts in Hawaii November 28, 2022
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Minnesota: 200 anglers rescued from broken ice chunk November 28, 2022
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Trudeau pledges support for First Nation rocked by stabbings November 29, 2022
The prime minister announces C$62.5m for the First Nations community rocked by an attack that left 11 dead.
Ecuador gangs: Gunmen storm hospital in attempt to kill teen November 28, 2022
Gang members took staff hostage and exchanged fire with police before they were arrested.