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From CNN: Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, will be formally admonished Friday by the House’s ethics committee for violating rules on receiving gifts, the committee announced Thursday.

MIAMI — Black people of Caribbean descent are being asked by their community’s leaders to write in their nationalities on the upcoming U.S. Census.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A Florida woman says her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering an Atlantic City bar.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama alternatively courted and blasted Republicans who have impeded his health care plan Thursday, in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit aimed at breaking a partisan deadlock over his top domestic priority. With the unprecedented, daylong policy debate available from start to finish to a divided public, Obama and Democratic leaders cast the […]

From the Washington Post: So many black women are single, she says, because they are stuck in the groove of a one-track song: sitting alone, waiting for that one “good” black man to come along and sweep them off their feet.

Last weekend, a white sorority step team won first place in the Sprite Step Off competition, beating out black competitors from Divine Nine organizations. Several people are pretty bothered by this.

PHOENIX — Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election.