Investigators suspect two African immigrants slain at a Long Island condo owned by an NFL player may have been killed as revenge for an Internet scam, police said Tuesday. Sekou Sakor and Ansu Keita were each shot in the head sometime Thursday night at a condominium in Woodbury, N.Y., owned by Jonathan Vilma. There were
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Pop star Madonna is back in the news; this time, heading back to the African nation of Malawi to adopt her second child. You might remember all of the drama a few years ago when Madonna adopted a Malawi boy. Now she wants to adopt a girl, and a judge has said she will have
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As budgets thin, many public universities around the country have begun outsourcing remedial education to community colleges. Some scholars, however, maintain that these developmental programs should remain at four-year institutions. In particular, they argue that on-campus preparatory courses help boost the academic success of black male students, an often heard-to-reach population. At this week’s meeting
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Georgetown junior DaJuan Summers is skipping his senior year and declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. Summers is “in the process of choosing an agent,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III said Monday in a statement issued by the school. “We wish DaJuan all the best in his future endeavors, wherever they may take him,”
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Kelly Rowland is indeed leaving her longtime home at Columbia Records, the label and Rowland have released a statement describing their split as mutual and amicable. The rumblings of a split began yesterday, but today rumors have been confirmed. Grammy-winning R&B/pop superstar Kelly Rowland will no longer be recording with Columbia Records as a solo
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Michael Steele said that he’s “done” reaching out to Barack Obama, adding that the nation’s first Black president seems to have a problem with him in his role as the first Black head of the Republican Party. peaking to CNN over the weekend, Steele said that Obama “has got a little thing about me that
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An NFL player said Monday he accepts the apology offered by a Dallas police officer who stopped him with a drawn gun in a hospital parking lot while his mother-in-law was dying inside. Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he hopes Officer Robert Powell was sincere in his
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