By The Admin on August 27, 2009
Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune
- Married to an acclaimed movie director and herself a filmmaker, Tonya Lewis Lee has produced documentaries and TV miniseries revolving around subjects she’s most passionate about.
Outspoken on issues involving women, children and race, one of Lee’s next film scripts will explore the hot topic of infant-mortality rates in the African American [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on August 27, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- They didn’t waste any time in hatin’ on Ted Kennedy. I’m not talking about Rush Limbaugh and his widely self-promoted gloat that he predicted that President Obama, liberal Democrats, and the alleged liberal controlled media would deify Kennedy on his death to shame the Senate into backing Obama’s health care reform package. [...]
Posted in Congress, National Politics
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Muhammad Ali brought Ricky Hatton to the brink of tears as the boxing legend paid a visit to the British fighter’s gym on Wednesday.
Hatton greeted the former world heavyweight champion with a handshake and a hug as 67-year-old Ali arrived at the gym in Manchester, northwest England.
Former welterweight and lightwelterweight world champion Hatton, 30, said [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford rebuffed his lieutenant governor’s call to resign Wednesday, two months after he admitted an affair, saying he will not be “railroaded” out of office.
Sanford returned from a nearly weeklong disappearance in June to reveal he had been in Argentina to visit his mistress, a disclosure that led to questions about [...]
Posted in South Carolina, State & Local News
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.
A photo on the Seattle-based company’s U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on [...]
Posted in Race
