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When celebrities share secrets, good things happen

When celebrities share secrets, good things happen

21 May 2013

Kicks and hits highlight the 2013 Billboard Music Awards

Kicks and hits highlight the 2013 Billboard Music Awards

21 May 2013

Calif. doc gets 14 years for promising cancer cure

Calif. doc gets 14 years for promising cancer cure

21 May 2013

Our 'outrageous dream': Bringing diversity to science

Our 'outrageous dream': Bringing diversity to science

21 May 2013

Bills promote Pittsburgh native and former Steelers' exec Whaley to…
New Buffalo Bills general manager Doug Whaley watches the NFL football team work out in Orchard Park, N.Y., on May 14.…
'Star Trek's' Zoe Saldana on racism: 'I'm not going to…
Zoe Saldana arrives at the LA premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness" at The Dolby Theater on May 14, in LA. (Photo by J…
Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs
President Barack Obama (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) by Christina Cassidy and Justin Pope ATLANTA (AP) — When Presi…
'Scandal' cast performs finale live for Academy
This undated publicity photo released by ABC shows Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope in a scene from the season finale, …
Serena dominates Azarenka to win Italian Open
Serena Williams returns the ball to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka during their final match at the Italian Open tennis tou…
Mourners gather to remember Malcolm X's grandson
Members of the Black Riders Liberation Party arrive at a service for Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, at the …
$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla
Dean Davis displays the Powerball ticket she bought in Omaha, May 15. No one matched the winning numbers in Wednesday'…
“Tarzan” swings onto the Byham stage
JONATHAN BLAKE FLEMINGS AND ZURI HODGE Pittsburgh Musical Theater has been known to take risks when it comes to c…
Farrakhan to Detroit: Investment needed in city
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks to Detroit City Council on May 17, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)…

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Roll to the Polls...Get Out and Vote! Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Roll to the Polls...Get Out and Vote! Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Call B-PEP's "ROLL TO THE POLLS" at the CISP Office in your area before Election Day. Hill District: 412-281-7430 Northside or Manchester: 412-442-5790 East Liberty or Homewood... Read more

Metro Briefs: Man shot dead in alleged heroin deal

Metro Briefs: Man shot dead in alleged heroin deal

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities in western Pennsylvania have charged two men in a shooting death that investigators say occurred during an attempted heroin transaction. Read more

Incumbent-less race lets 'Burgh hit reset button

Incumbent-less race lets 'Burgh hit reset button

This combination of three file photos shows, left, then state Auditor General Jack Wagner in Philadelphia on Friday, May 7, 2010. The center photo shows Bill Peduto in a file photo... Read more

Pittsburgh zoo unveils new tiger cub to public

Pittsburgh zoo unveils new tiger cub to public

This photo provided by the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium shows the new Amur tiger cub in a restricted area at the zoo. (AP Photo/Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, Paul A. Selvag... Read more

‘Social Welfare’ group runs ads against Gov. Corbett. But who are they?

‘Social Welfare’ group runs ads against Gov. Corbett. But who are they?

A still from an advertisement paid for by Pennsylvanians for Accountability. by Bill Heltzel Pennsylvanians for Accountability runs television ads that accuse Gov.... Read more

Replacing Shealey: Prater-Holliday, Wilson seek District 1 board seat

Replacing Shealey: Prater-Holliday, Wilson seek District 1 board seat

LUCILLE PRATER-HOLLIDAY After just one term, Sharene Shealey, District 1 representative of the Pittsburgh Public School District Board of Directors, decided not... Read more

Replacing Colaizzi: DeFlitch, Kennedy face off in District 5 board race

Replacing Colaizzi: DeFlitch, Kennedy face off in District 5 board race

STEPHEN DeFLITCH Two parents with students in the Pittsburgh Public School District are running for the District 5 school board seat in the May 21 primary electi... Read more

Replacing McCrea: 3 choices for District 9 Burton-Eberhardt, Klug, Schuilen…

Replacing McCrea: 3 choices for District 9 Burton-Eberhardt, Klug, Schuilenburg seek seat

LORRAINE BURTON-EBERHARDT (Contributed) After 12 years representing District 9 on the Pittsburgh Public School District Board of Directors, Floyd “Skip” McC... Read more

CCAC president accepts new role in Ohio

CCAC president accepts new role in Ohio

ALEX JOHNSON Community College of Allegheny County President Alex Johnson has been selected as the new president of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. He will begi... Read more

Tonya Payne: Let me finish what I started

Tonya Payne: Let me finish what I started

TONYA PAYNE Tonya Payne, who served one term as Pittsburgh’s City Council’s District 6 representative before losing her seat to R. Daniel Lavelle four years ago, said when she l... Read more

Dok Harris: District 6 deserves better

Dok Harris: District 6 deserves better

FRANCO DOK HARRIS His website, Harrisfor6.com, is little more than a shell listing his educational credentials, a general summary of his work history since his 2009 mayoral run,... Read more

Lavelle: I’ve earned chance to do more

Lavelle: I’ve earned chance to do more

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Community Calendar 5-15-13

Community Calendar 5-15-13

Get Out The Vote MAY 18—The Black Political Empowerment Project, The Western Pa Black Political Assembly, Talk Magazine and others will ... Read more

Another teen killing marks fourth this year

Another teen killing marks fourth this year

GONE TOO SOON—Dejour Gadsden, one of four teens killed by gun violence in 2013. (Photo courtesy of Facebook) The killing of a 17-year-old McKeesport boy Saturday in the ... Read more

County launches community health anti-violence commission

County launches community health anti-violence commission

Thanks to a push from state Rep. Ed Gainey, D-East Liberty, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced the creation of a Public Health Commissio... Read more

NAACP Town Hall : It's time to end the war on drugs

NAACP Town Hall : It's time to end the war on drugs

STATE REP. ED GAINEY Brandi Fisher believes the war on drugs is really about a war on Africa-Americans. “The war on drugs feeds prisons and turns our communities ... Read more

CCAC President Johnson, finalist for Cleveland college position

CCAC President Johnson, finalist for Cleveland college position

ALEX JOHNSON According to a letter received by the New Pittsburgh Courier, Community College of Allegheny County President Alex Johnson could be leaving CCAC to take a position ... Read more

NAACP head says Orie Sisters’ sentence just; Judge orders re-sentencing for…

NAACP head says Orie Sisters’ sentence just; Judge orders re-sentencing for ex-Justice Melvin

Former state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, right, and sister Janine Orie, left, arrive for court with a family member on May 7, for sentencing for their February convic... Read more

Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers... Teachers attract students with innovat…

Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers... Teachers attract students with innovation

NINA ESPOSITO-VISGITIS According to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan teachers are the greatest in-school factor that impacts student achievement. For this reason ... Read more

Giving back focus of Cash’s NAACP speech

Giving back focus of Cash’s NAACP speech

SWIN CASH PITTSBURGH--“I’ve always been committed to coming back and helping not only kids in my community, but also where I play.” Those words from Swin Cash, a McKees... Read more

Lost painting brings $750K in found money to schools

Lost painting brings $750K in found money to schools

'WORK OF ART'--Superintendent Linda Lane stands beside valuable piece of art. (Photo/Pittsburgh Public Schools) PITTSBURGH (AP) — A painting that Pittsburgh Public Schoo... Read more

Re-writing the script and changing the game…Adjusting the image of Black ma…

Re-writing the script and changing the game…Adjusting the image of Black males

CHEO TYEHIMBA TAYLOR Complaints about the depiction of Black males in media is nothing new, it just continuous. Just listen to the hub-bub about Tyler the Creato... Read more

Few surprises at Chamber forum

Few surprises at Chamber forum

MAKING THEIR CASE—Pittsburgh Mayoral hopefuls, left to right, Bill Peduto, Jack Wagner and Jake Wheatley, respond to questions at the African American Chamber of Commerce candida... Read more

Wheatley says: Vote for a difference

Wheatley says: Vote for a difference

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22 of 28 homicides Black lives

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NOT ANOTHER DEADLY SUMMER! With 28 homicides in Allegheny County, 22 of them being Black individuals, we have already passed the numbers this time last y... Read more

Community Calendar 5-8-13

Community Calendar 5-8-13

Seminar Series MAY 9—The Alzheimer Disease Research Center and Alzheimer Outreach Center of the University of Pittsburgh will host the Walter Al... Read more

Ex-Pa. Justice Melvin gets house arrest, probation

Ex-Pa. Justice Melvin gets house arrest, probation

JOAN ORIE MELVIN (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) by Joe Mandak PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her sister avoided prison time for thei... Read more

Teens plead guilty to sending threatening tweets in Steubenville rape case

Teens plead guilty to sending threatening tweets in Steubenville rape case

MA'LIK RICHMOND (AP Photo/File) by Andrew Welsh-Huggins COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An eastern Ohio grand jury has adjourned for three weeks while investigators go back to an... Read more

Pittsburgh Marathon run amid tightened security

Pittsburgh Marathon run amid tightened security

PITTSBURGH (AP) — James Kirwa of Kenya has won his second straight Pittsburgh Marathon on Sunday amid heightened security following the Boston Marathon bombings and with a contin... Read more

YWCA rally against racism

YWCA rally against racism

DINA CLARK Joined by representatives from federal, state and local government agencies, community groups and educational institutions, the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh cel... Read more

Penn Hills firefighter fired after racial comment on Facebook

Penn Hills firefighter fired after racial comment on Facebook

JOSH KORZENDORFER (Facebook Photo) by Ashley Johnson Courier Staff Writer A volunteer firefighter with the Penn Hills Volunteer Fire Department #221 was terminated Tue... Read more

Pitt Vice Chancellor Robert Hill stepping down after 14 years

Pitt Vice Chancellor Robert Hill stepping down after 14 years

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH VICE CHANCELLOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ROBERT HILL After 14 years of serving as the University of Pittsburgh’s vice chancellor of Public Affairs, P... Read more

Corbett panned for linking Pa. joblessness, drug use

Corbett panned for linking Pa. joblessness, drug use

PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR TOM CORBETT (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) by Peter Jackson Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats on Wednesday heaped criticism on R... Read more

Community Calendar 5-1-13

Community Calendar 5-1-13

College Success 101 ConferenceMAY 2—The Pittsburgh College Success Collaborative will host the College Success 101 Conference from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the University of Pittsb... Read more

Council approves gunshot surveillance for Homewood

Council approves gunshot surveillance for Homewood

REV. RICKY BURGESS On April 30 Pittsburgh City Council voted to install surveillance cameras and gun shot detectors in Homewood, a neighborhood that has seen a rash of h... Read more

Rev. Wright voices support for homosexuals

Rev. Wright voices support for homosexuals

DIFFERENT IS NOT DEFICIENT—Jeremiah Wright uses humor to tackle a controversial subject. (Photos by J.L. Martello) It seems as though everyday another prominent figure i... Read more

Peduto: Dedicated to community- driven solutions

Peduto: Dedicated to community- driven solutions

BILL PEDUTO Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto said he deserves your vote in the upcoming mayoral primary because he is dedicated solely to a vision of a revitalized city... Read more

After guns and grenades, PA veterans claims delayed

After guns and grenades, PA veterans claims delayed

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Pro gun, pro background checks: a Black gun owner explains

Pro gun, pro background checks: a Black gun owner explains

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First local African-American chief federal judge Lancaster dead at 63

First local African-American chief federal judge Lancaster dead at 63

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Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School) by Frank EltmanA... Read more

Virginia GOP nominates conservative Black Minister for Lt. Gov.

Virginia GOP nominates conservative Black Minister for Lt. Gov.

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Miss. mayoral candidate: Radical or mainstream?

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Teens spearheaded Louisville desegregation effort

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Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'

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Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

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Despite controversies, Obama agenda marches on

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NAACP board honors Evers' memory in Miss.

NAACP board honors Evers' memory in Miss.

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OJ Simpson testifies in bid for new Vegas trial

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Insurers pay $600K in small-town W.Va. racism case

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NYC's Columbia University seeks to alter Whites-only bequest

NYC's Columbia University seeks to alter Whites-only bequest

(Diane Bondareff/AP) NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to White students from Iowa. The Lydia ... Read more

Pa. abortion doctor gets third life sentence

Pa. abortion doctor gets third life sentence

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This Week In Black History

This Week In Black History

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Mexico arrests 2 men in Malcolm X grandson's death

Mexico arrests 2 men in Malcolm X grandson's death

Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus, 24, left, and David Hernandez Cruz, 24, stand for their mug shot after being arrested in Mexico City. (AP Photo/PGJDF) by E. Eduardo CastilloME... Read more

19 New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting victims included 2 kids

19 New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting victims included 2 kids

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OJ heads to court to fight for freedom

OJ heads to court to fight for freedom

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2 bodies found after NJ standoff; suspect killed

2 bodies found after NJ standoff; suspect killed

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Rodman to Kim: 'Do me a solid' and free the American

Rodman to Kim: 'Do me a solid' and free the American

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A look at key moments in Jackson trial and what's expected at court in the …

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In this April 27, 2005 photo, Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. Jackson's longtime makeup artist Karen Faye testified before a... Read more

Charles Ramsey's turbulent 15 minutes of fame

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Stop-and-Frisk trial is about more than New York City

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In rural McDowell County W.Va., schools rethink their role

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Mich. governor: Returning fugitive not a priority

Mich. governor: Returning fugitive not a priority

A request to return a 63-year-old fugitive to Arkansas is not a high priority, Gov. Rick Snyder said Thursday, citing the convicted killer's poor health and saying he has caused ... Read more

Prosecutor may seek death penalty in Cleveland case

Prosecutor may seek death penalty in Cleveland case

An Ohio prosecutor said Thursday he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, saying the man accused of raping and imprisoning three women in his home forced them to suffe... Read more

This Week In Black History

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1952--BOXER-TURNED-ACTOR CANADA LEE DIES IN NEW YORK CITY AT THE AGE OF 45. Week of May 8-15 May 81858—The first play by an African-American writer is published. The pl... Read more

Clarence Thomas: 'The elites' had to approve a Black president

Clarence Thomas: 'The elites' had to approve a Black president

JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS (Photo: U.S. Supreme Court) (CNN) -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court's only African ... Read more

Black man admits killing Black Miss. gay mayoral candidate

Black man admits killing Black Miss. gay mayoral candidate

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White supremacist gets 26 to life in killing of molester

White supremacist gets 26 to life in killing of molester

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California White supremacist convicted of killing a child molester has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison, while his wife — convict... Read more

Philly abortion murder trial has national impact

Philly abortion murder trial has national impact

by David Crary and Michael Rubinkam For weeks, jurors in Philadelphia heard grim testimony about deaths and squalor at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's inner-city abortion clinic. While the... Read more

Juror: Landmark EEOC verdict in Iowa sends message

Juror: Landmark EEOC verdict in Iowa sends message

Preston Pate, Ronnie Lashley and Willie Levi were among the Henry's Turkey Service workers taken to a hotel in Muscatine after their bunkhouse in Atalissa was shut down in February... Read more

PepsiCo pulls Mountain Dew ad after criticism

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Veteran N.C. Congressman Watt gets Federal Housing Finance Agency nod

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Pelosi wins praise at NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit

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This Week In Black History 5-1-13

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Police: Teen assaulted Philly mayor’s daughter

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Philly pastor disinvited at Morehouse College for Obama comments

Philly pastor disinvited at Morehouse College for Obama comments

REV. KEVIN R. JOHNSON by Darryl Bell (NNPA)--An invitation to the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson, senior pastor of Bright Hope Baptist Church, to be the baccalaureate speaker Ma... Read more

Are lesbians more accepted than gay men?

Are lesbians more accepted than gay men?

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Source: Charlotte mayor to be nominated for transportation secretary

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NYPD whistle-blowers testify at stop-frisk trial

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NYPD TRAINING--Det. Anthony Mannuzza, left, and Police Officer Robert Martin, right, simulate a street stop during a training session at the New York Police Department's training... Read more

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