From BBC.com: Anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV/Aids are being bought and smoked by teenagers in South Africa to get high.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Reverend Wright returned to Trinity United Church of Christ Sunday and spoke on Barack Obama and the media.

At the recent Gridiron dinner, an off the records dinner in which politicians sing and crack jokes said that his real goal was to become President of the United States because ‘Once you go black you don’t go back,’ referencing Barack Obama’s recent election.

From Gothamist.com: Here rookie, have a machine gun. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is making sure 1,000 rookie police officers assigned to Times Square on New Year's Eve are ready to rock with M4 automatic machine guns.

The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.

From rightpundits.com: <span><span>This week’s episode of <span>Family Guy</span> contained an opening sequence in which Peter Griffin dresses as </span><a class="IL_LINK_STYLE" style="border-bottom:1px solid #009900;text-decoration:underline;color:#009900;" href="void(0)">Laura Bush</a><span> for a <a class="IL_LINK_STYLE" style="border-bottom:1px solid #009900;text-decoration:underline;color:#009900;" href="void(0)">costume party</a> and his wife Lois dresses as a bleeding man with tire tracks across his body. The characters repeat several times “Laura Bush Killed A Guy.”</span></span> What exactly was this referring to?

From WAPT.com: Two students on a school bus in a Mississippi town were kicked off the bus for saying, "Obama is our President." WATCH the video here.

The first child born at the White House was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. The second child born there was his property — the African-American baby of Jefferson’s two slaves.

The Kennedy Center awards were presented Saturday night at a State Department dinner. Rice addressed each honoree, beginning with Freeman, who once played the president in the movie “Deep Impact.” “I know that when you played the African-American president of the United States, most people thought that would happen when a comet hit,” Rice said, […]

From BlackAmericaWeb.com: The new Miss France, born to an African-American mother and white French father, said Sunday she wants to advertise her country's diversity on the world stage. Click here to see the gallery!

A bailout plan for the failing U.S. auto industry could include a Cabinet-level oversight board and a provision to withdraw the money if the overseers decide the companies are failing to take steps to overhaul themselves.