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From MediaPost.com: When it comes to wooing Muslim Americans, U.S. marketers are pretty oblivious, leaving potential customers to scramble for product information on their own. Are Halal meals at Kentucky Fried Chicken Halal enough? How about Oreos? What’s new at Forever 21 that is hot and modest? Is that mutual fund compliant with Shariah investment […]

From JackAndJillPolitics.com: By Baratunde Thurston In July 2010 America came to a standstill and watched television as Lebron James held a much-hyped press conference to announce he would be leaving Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat.  In January 2009 America came to a standstill and watched YouTube as BART transit officer Johannes Mehserle pulled […]

From TheRoot.com: Six-year-old Ja’Briel Weston was shackled by his ankle to a chair for disobeying his first-grade teacher. Two days later, he was apprehended by an armed security guard, dragged down a hallway and handcuffed to a chair for getting into a shoving match with another student. This didn’t happen at some medieval-age boarding school. […]

From the LA Times: A former transit police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man at an Oakland train station was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, capping a racially charged case that raised fears in the Bay Area of possible violence after the verdict. Prosecutors accused the ex-officer of intentionally firing his handgun as he […]

The case of 34-year old mom Otty Sanchez was shocking and sad.  Sanchez was arrested after chewing off the toes of her three week old child and eating part of his brain.  Even more surprising to some was the fact that Sanchez wasn’t sent to prison for her crime after being ruled to be insane.

From WSJ.com: In a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine, U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered. Looking closely at the strongest antibody, they have detailed exactly what part of the virus it targets and how it attacks […]

From TheState.com: Authorities have found the body of 2-year-old Rodricus Fred Williams in a trash can in rural Orangeburg County, sources say.

From Bloomberg.com: The music industry has long sold black culture to white Americans. Now McDonald’s Corp. is doing much the same. It’s taking cues from blacks, Hispanics and Asians to develop menus and advertising, in an effort to encourage middle-class whites to buy smoothies and snack wraps as avidly as they consume hip-hop and rock […]