By The Admin on December 31, 2010
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis withdrew his candidacy from the Chicago’s mayor race Friday, leaving former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun as the only remaining prominent black candidate in the campaign.
Davis, who announced his decision alongside Braun at a New Year’s Eve news conference, said the decision was an act of unity for blacks in the [...]
Posted in Illinois
By The Admin on December 30, 2010
New York Times
- At year’s end, people around the world indulge in food rituals to ensure good luck in the days ahead. In Spain, grapes eaten as the clock turns midnight — one for each chime — foretell whether the year will be sweet or sour. In Austria, the New Year’s table is decorated with [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on December 29, 2010
Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun said Wednesday that Bill Clinton’s decision to campaign for former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in the Chicago mayoral race simply amounts to an outsider helping an outsider.
Her comments make her the second mayoral candidate to question the ex-president’s involvement in Emanuel’s campaign in the race to [...]
Posted in Illinois
By The Admin on December 29, 2010
Murals of slaves harvesting sugar cane on a Georgia plantation and picking and ginning cotton are coming off the walls of a state building on the order of a new agriculture commissioner.
The murals are part of a collection of eight works painted by George Beattie in 1956 depicting an idealized version of Georgia farming, from [...]
Posted in Georgia
By The Admin on December 29, 2010
The defense for the doctor facing trial for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death will suggest the singer actually killed himself, a prosecutor said during a hearing Wednesday.
“I do think it’s clear the defense is operating under the theory that the victim, Michael Jackson, killed himself,” said Deputy District Attorney David Walgren.
“They don’t want to [...]
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