Exclusive: BET.com reports from the Hip Hop Caucus -- Respect My Vote summit aimed at empowering and educating young voters. (2012)
This year’s Respect My Vote representative is 2 Chainz. The Atlanta rapper was a first-time voter in the 2008 elect ...
Posted Saturday, September 15th 2012 at 7:47PM
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Mostafa Hefney has been on a decades-long fight to stop being called white.
hen Mostafa Hefney moved to America from Egypt back in 1978, he was eager to begin his new life as an American. But then something a U.S. government interviewer told him thr ...
Posted Saturday, September 15th 2012 at 7:20PM
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Colin Rodney, a barber based in Bedford Stuyvesant, hopes his “Barbers for Obama” campaign will go national.
Throughout the course of this year’s presidential campaign, Colin Rodney listened to incessant, animated conversations in his Brooklyn bar ...
Posted Saturday, September 15th 2012 at 7:16PM
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By Liam Ford
Tribune reporter
5:18 p.m. CDT, September 15, 2012
Adel Daoud, 18, of Hillside, was arrested Friday night when he tried to blow up what he thought was a car bomb in front of a downtown bar after undercover federal agents supplied hi ...
Posted Saturday, September 15th 2012 at 7:05PM
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I grew up on Paul Hardcastle's music and it is such a shame that timeless classics like this aren't getting airwaves ...
Posted Saturday, September 15th 2012 at 7:01PM
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JUST RELAX AND ENJOY ALL THIS AND MORE AT ''THE HOT SPOT '' ...
Posted Saturday, September 15th 2012 at 6:56PM
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Kanye West is the most recent hip hop artist to address Mitt Romney in a song. Unlike Nicki Minaj, who caused much controversy by claiming to be a "Republican voting for Mitt Romney" in her track, which she later explained was a subliminal dig at the ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 7:13PM
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The acting is bad, the dialogue is bad, the green-screen effects are almost mind-boggling in their awfulness. The actors and crew involved have released a statement saying they were duped by the film-maker; a man going by the pseudonym 'Sam Bacile.' ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 6:36PM
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"An IED detonates during a footage patrol killing 2 ANP, and injuring 3 boys from B Co 2-30 IN 4/10 MTN DIV. Included about 50 seconds before the blast, to show what a a typical patrol is like (hours of walking), and about 90 seconds after the blast, ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 6:30PM
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This breakthrough in negotiations comes on the fifth day of the teachers strike. Both sides announced they reached the agreement in principle early Friday afternoon Many details still need to be worked out in the agreement. Once that work is done, th ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 6:20PM
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