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  • Israel's Next Top Model: Soldier in Facebook Controversy Defends Prisoner Photos

    Apparently, posing next to bound Palestinian detainees and posting the photos on Facebook is no big deal — that is according to Eden Abergil, the Israeli soldier who did the deed. The Israeli military is not laughing, condemning the photos that appeared in Abergil’s Facebook photo album entitled, “The Best Years of My Life,” and…

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  • James J. Kilpatrick, Conservative Commentator, Dies

    One of the leaders of the Massive Resistance movmement in Virginia has passed away. James J. Kilpatrick, the conservative commentator and former editor of The Richmond News Leader, has died after a long illness. Kilpatrick railed against the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. He used his column and the newspaper to champion…

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  • Court Stops Gay Marriages Indefinitely in California

    Sex-same couples in the Golden State will have to wait until at least December 6, 2010, to even think about marrying. A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely while it considers the constitutionality of the state’s gay-marriage ban. The decision was issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S.…

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  • Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Dies

    Jazz photographer Herman Leonard has passed away. Leonard is considered to be one of the great midcentury jazz-scene photographers, capturing Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis during their heyday. The Smithsonian Institution has 130 of Leonard’s photos in its permanent collection. He lived in New Orleans until Hurricane…

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  • HIV-Positive Member of Girl Group Testifies to Having Unprotected Sex

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  • Open Letter Urges France's President to Pay Haiti's 'Independence Debt'

    International scholars, journalists and cultural critics have come together to present France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy with an open letter asking France to pay Haiti’s “independence debt” to help the country recover from the devastation of the earthquake. The debt was imposed on Haiti nearly 200 years ago after it won its independence and became the first…

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  • Jimi Hendrix Items on Display at His Former London Home

    Jimi Hendrix lives on through his music and belongings, which are on display at his former house in London. Hendrix, who died of a drug overdose 40 years ago, was known for his unparalleled musical abilities, particularly as a guitarist, and his fashion style and cool aesthetic. The guitarist lived in an apartment in London’s Mayfair…

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  • Erykah Badu Booed in Atlanta

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  • Republicans Attack President Obama Over Mosque Comments

    Republicans are having a field day over President Obama’s comments about freedom of religion in reference to the mosque to be built on private land, two blocks away from the Sept. 11 site. Apparently, the president’s support of a plan to build a Muslim cultural center near ground zero is an indicator that he is…

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  • Young 'Lion King' Star Getting Transplant

    Shannon Tavarez, 11, who played Nala in the Broadway production of The Lion King, is getting a potentially lifesaving procedure. Tavarez, who was diagnosed with leukemia and forced to quit the show last April, will get an umbilical-cord blood transplant Tuesday. The blood-producing stem cells used in transplants can come from cord blood, bone marrow or…

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