Last week Bill Cosby settled a lawsuit with a woman claiming to have been sexually assaulted by the comedian. But MediaTakeOut.com has learned that Cosby may have violated other women in the past and spoke to a woman who claims that the family-values funnyman infected her with herpes. In an interview with MediaTakeOut.com, a retired […]
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Abortion and immigration
Clearly, lots of politicos in Missouri were wearing their butts above their shoulders this week, but none more prominently than state Rep. Ed Emery, a Republican who chairs the state House’s immigration committee. Emery’s analysis of immigration? That immigrants come here to fill jobs that would be staffed by natural-born Americans, if only women in […]
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Salute honorees toasted for business excellence
RBC announces scholarship fund By Alvin A. Reid Of the St. Louis American Katherine Anderson, the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year, said her firm’s success is due in large part to the dedicated employees of Andy’s Seasonings. “A lot of credit goes to having good employees,” Anderson told more than 500 […]
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Fast money, short life
My son’s name is Derrick C. Williams; he was 32 years of age when he was gunned down savagely on September 4, 2006 at the corner of Lillian and Goodfellow Ave. at the Citgo gas station. My son was murdered by a young man by the name of Deandres I. Dowell, a 22-year-old pistol-toting drug […]
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So much for GOP ‘outreach’
It is, however, a bad time to be a black Republican, here or anywhere. Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman’s outreach to the African-American community on Nov. 7 ended in abject failure. Despite the hype, a slew of black Republican candidates – Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, Maryland senatorial candidate […]
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Them lyrics…
So I was rollin’ in the whip the other day and some song called “Smack That”, featuring Eminem, was playing. Now we already know about Marshall Mathers’ appetite for women-dissin’ lyrics, especially about his wife Kim (who he married and divorced twice). He once flowed about killing her, chopping her up and putting her in […]
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Armstong says black community must connect
Salute keynoter stresses importance of internet and innovation By Meliqueica Meadows Of the St. Louis American “If you’re comfortable in your job, technology is about to replace you,” said Mario Armstrong, keynote speaker at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2006 Salute to Excellence in Business Awards Luncheon held last Thursday at the Renaissance Grand. Armstrong […]
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Club Shoot.
We’ll I guess the drive-by shooters are now walk-by shooters, gunning their foes down in and outside clubs and fleeing on foot. These gun-fighting dancers don’t even care if the police station is a block away and police officers are a couple feet away. No wonder the city put a lock on hanging in the […]
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The Jeff Smith factor
At least one black Democrat on the sidelines of this meltdown wondered if the Urban Progressive Caucus was the brainchild of brand-new state Sen. Jeff Smith. If so, everyone is dissembling really effectively. Smith reacted to news of the new caucus with surprise, and he was far from St. Louis Tuesday night as members of […]
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Ruckus in the Black Caucus
Democrats in Missouri forgot their differences (for the most part) barely long enough to score some victories against the Republican Party on Nov. 7, and then immediately returned to jockeying for power and position among themselves. A major split that erupted in the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus last week looks back toward hidden controversies in […]