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(Utah's first African-American Mayor. Photo taken from The Black Report)The unemployment rate has reached 10.2, and this is the first time since 1983 that it has surpassed 10%. If that isn't shocking, this next story might be. Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress turns on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas. I know this left a lot of people in tears. Speaking of tears, from a babies very first days, the cries of newborns already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, scientists now find.
President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the jobless. Looks like someone unsigned a deal. The University of Central Florida has lost its $3 million exclusive contract with adidas after basketball player Marcus Jordan's insisted on wearing his father, Michael's, Nike Air Jordans for the school's opening basketball game. It is kind of like a tribute when the Jordan son's wear their father's shoe. Estelle, Ludacris, and other's pay tribute to soul singer Otis Redding in a two-hour performance at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta.
ABC officially announced Thursday that its upcoming Janet Jackson interview will be taped at her Malibu mansion, marking the first time the singer has allowed television cameras into her home, and the first interview since the death of her brother. The interview is set to air on Nov. 18. The queen of interviewing, Oprah Winfrey, says she's keeping singer BeBe Winans off her show until domestic violence charges against him are resolved. The gospel singer had taped appearances on Winfrey's "karaoke challenge" and was on last Friday. On good news, Saratoga Springs made history Tuesday night, becoming the first Utah city to elect a black woman as mayor, naming Mia Love Mayor.
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