THE LEONID METEOR SHOWER, ONE OF THE MOST STUNNING ANNUAL METEOR SHOWERS, WILL PEAK EARLY TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17. 2009.
NASA is predicting "20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia."
Acc ...
Posted Monday, November 16th 2009 at 9:12PM
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“MICHELLE WOULD SAY, ‘WELL, YOU’RE GONE ALL THE TIME AND WE’RE BROKE,’” THE PRESIDENT RECALLED. ‘HOW IS THAT A GOOD DEAL?’”
BY JODI KANTOR
ONE DAY LAST SPRING, I walked into the Hyde Park apartment the Obamas bought when they married, hoping ...
Posted Monday, November 16th 2009 at 8:34PM
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CREW TO DELIVER VITAL EQUIPMENT, SPARE PARTS TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN ONE OF LAST REMAINING SHUTTLE FLIGHT.
November 16, 2009, CBS NEWS.
Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare par ...
Posted Monday, November 16th 2009 at 6:53PM
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MOVIES COME. MOVIES GO. BUT A RARE FEW ARRIVE LIKE GIFTS, SENT BY SOME COSMIC MESSENGER TO STIR THE SENSE, AWAKEN COMPASSION AND SEND VIEWERS INTO A WORLD MADE RADICALLY NEW BY INVIGORATED ALERTNESS AND EMPATHY. SUCH IS THE MOVIE PRECIOUS WHICH SU ...
Posted Sunday, November 15th 2009 at 10:12PM
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“I MARRIED YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE CUTE AND YOU’RE SMART,” MICHELLE LATER SAID SHE TOLD HER HUSBAND. “BUT THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING YOU COULD HAVE EVER ASKED ME TO DO.”
BY JODI KANTOR
IN THE ANNALS of presidential coupledom, the Obamas more than ...
Posted Saturday, November 14th 2009 at 8:18PM
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BEFORE MICHELLE, BARACK HAD BROUGHT ONLY ONE WOMAN TO HAWAII TO MEET HIS FAMJILY. HE, IN TURN, WAS MICHELLE’S FIRST SERIOUS BOYFRIEND. NONE OF THE OTHERS HAD MET HER STANDARDS.
BY JODI KANTOR
Just before the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. pro ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 2:41PM
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“CLEARLY BARACK’S CAREER DECISIONS ARE LEADING US. THEY’RE NOT MIND. THAT’S OBVIOUS. I’M MARRIED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I DON’T HAVE ANOTHER JOB AND IT WOULD BE PROBLMEATIC IN THIS ROLE.”
BY JODI KANTOR
For all of their ea ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 7:35AM
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BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, November 12th 2009
ARLINGTON, VA. – HE DIDN’T INTRODUCE HIMSELF. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO.
PRESIDENT OBAMA SIMPLY STUCK OUT HIS HAND AND ASKED FOR MY NAME AS HE STEPPED TOWARD ME AMID ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 7:29AM
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“THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME IN OUR MARRIAGE THAT WE’VE LIVED SEVEN DAYS A WEEK IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD WITH THE SAME SCHEDULE, WITH THE SAME SET OF RITUALS,” MICHELLE OBAMA POINTED OUT. “THAT’S BEEN MORE OF A RELIEF FOR ME THAN I WOULD HAVE ...
Posted Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 11:06AM
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“EVERYTHING BECOMES POLITICAL,” HE REPEATED VERY SLOWLY. THEN HE SAID: “WHAT I VALUE MOST ABOUT MY MARRIAGE IS THAT IT IS SEPARATE AND APART FROM A LOT OF THE SILLINESS OF WASHINGTON AND MICHELLE IS NOT PART OF THAT SILLINESS.”
BY JODI KANTOR ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 8:36AM
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THE UNION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST FORMIDABLE BRANDS. IT IS ALSO AN ONGOING NEGOTIOATION BETWEEN TWO STRONG-MINDED INDIVIDUALS OVER HOW TO BALANCE WORK AND FAMILY, AMBITION AND PRINCIPLE AND THE DEMANDS OF PRIVACY AND ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 8:30AM
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“WHEN’S THE LAST TIME WE COULD GO TO THE MOVIES AND SEE OURSELVES IN SUCH COMPLEXITY AND HANDLED WITH SUCH INTELLIGENCE?”
November 6, 2009
THE ROOT.COM
Lisa Cortés, an executive producer of PRECIOUS talks about the representation of black ...
Posted Tuesday, November 10th 2009 at 9:15AM
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But you still need to go see Lee Daniels’ brilliant, powerful new film about a Harlem black girl in trouble.
By: Teresa Wiltz
November 6, 2009
THE ROOT.COM
Inner city girl, inner city school, talented teacher. You may think you’ve seen this ...
Posted Monday, November 9th 2009 at 4:07PM
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“I FOUND HER WITH AN INFANT IN HER ARMS ONLY A FEW MONTHS OLD AND OBSERVED THAT IT HAD A LARGE BUMP ON ITS FOREHEAD. I INQUIRED THE CAUSE OF THE INJURY. SHE PROCEEDED TO GIVE A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER ATTEMPT TO KILL HER CHILDREN.”
--REV. P. S. ...
Posted Monday, November 9th 2009 at 3:53PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, November 8, 2009
By STUART MILLER
“MANY OF THESE PLAYERS ARE GETTING INTO THE HALL OF FAME OR OTHER RECOGNITION AND THEY DESERVE ALL THAT. BUT THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN’T GET FROM STATUES AND PLAQUES.” GIVING THE NEGRO LEAGUES ...
Posted Sunday, November 8th 2009 at 11:19AM
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“SHE WAS A MULATTO, ABOUT FIVE FEET HIGH. SHE HAD A HIGH FOREHEAD. HER EYEBROWS WERE FINELY ARCHED AND HER EYES BRIGHT AND INTELLIGENT. ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HER FOREHEAD WAS AN OLD SCAR AND ON THE SAME SIDE, ANOTHER ONE. WHEN ASKED WHAT CAUSED THEM ...
Posted Saturday, November 7th 2009 at 12:45PM
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IN WRITING BELOVED, TONI MORRISON WAS INSPIRED BY REAL-LIFE EVENTS TAKEN FROM THE HISTORICAL RECORD. “THE CRUCIAL DISTINCTION FOR ME,” SHE SAID, “IS NOT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION BUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN FACT AND TRUTH.”
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Posted Wednesday, November 4th 2009 at 6:12PM
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“A DEED OF HORROR HAD BEEN CONSUMMATED, FOR WELTERING IN ITS BLOOD, THE THROAT BEING CUT FROM EAR TO EAR AND THE HEAD ALMOST SEVERED FROM THE BODY, UPON THE FLOOR LAY ONE OF THE CHILDREN.”
“A girl three years old, while in a back room, crouched ...
Posted Wednesday, November 4th 2009 at 6:02PM
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The newly released Michael Jackson album THIS IS IT, a twenty track, two-CD set, features one of Jackson's poems, called "Planet Earth." The poem is rich with deep metaphysical questions, and, is a call to environmental awareness.
Critics have, ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 8:11PM
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“THE CLIPPING ABOUT MARGARET GARNER STUCK IN MY HEAD”--TONI MORRISON
ON SUNDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 27, 1856, SOMETIME AFTER TEN O’CLOCK, ROBERT GARNER GRABBED HIS MASTER’S LOADED PISTOL, WENT TO THE BARN AND HITCHED TWO OF HIS MASTER’S FINEST HORSES ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 8:07PM
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“I CONTEND THAT WE ARE JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. WE ARE EVERY KIND OF PEOPLE FROM HIGH TO LOW. IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE JUST PEOPLE.”
—ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Recently, one of the members at Black history.com posted a provocative, thought provoking ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 12:30PM
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“I WAS AMAZED BY THIS STORY ABOUT A WOMAN CALLED MARGARET GARNER WHO ESCAPED FROM KENTUCKY INTO CINCINNATI WITH FOUR CHILDREN,” SAID TONI MORRISON.
After Toni Morrison’s novel BELOVED came out in 1987 to near universal acclaim, historians began ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2009 at 4:44PM
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WBZ RADIO, BOSTON
Oct 28, 2009
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley were spotted hanging out together at a pub in Cambridge Wednesday night.
The owner of "River Gods" told WBZ the two sat in a boot ...
Posted Friday, October 30th 2009 at 11:40AM
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FICTIONAL CHARACTER SETHE WAS INSPIRED BY THE REAL LIFE TRAGEDY OF FUGITIVE SLAVE MARGARET GARNER
The novel BELOVED by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison is regarded among the finest works of twentieth century literature. She wrote her historical ficti ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 10:34PM
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