A journalist named Laurie Penny was crossing Sixth Avenue in Manhattan wearing a bright pink wig when she was saved from a speeding cab by none other than buzz-worthy Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling. She took to popular gossip and opinion website Gawker to try and put an end to the fervor.
Mad Men takes place in the 60s, but got the attention of modern-day politicos when a character in the AMC show took a slap at Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's father.
Trayvon Martin's parents will ask the U.S. Justice Department to review a local Florida prosecutor's interactions with police investigating his killing, their lawyer said Sunday.
The Daily Texan, a University of Texas student newspaper, has fired Stephanie Eisner, one of its staff members, because of an editorial cartoon addressing the Trayvon Martin case, reported MSN News. The student was dismissed from the publication on Thursday, two days after the illustration first appeared on the Opinion page of newspaper.
A class action lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction against the military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act will be heard in a New York federal court.
Adrienne Rich, a leading American poet and advocate of women's and gay liberation, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif., her family said. She was 82.
A tweet, allegedly from Will Smith, contrasting the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin with the flour bombing of Kim Kardashian, went viral on Twitter Tuesday before it was proven to be fake. WE live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site. But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free, the tweet from @ReaIWiIISmith read, referring to George Zimmerman. A screenshot, along with the tweet, went viral on Tuesday.
This is the real tragedy – blacks are killing other blacks in astounding numbers.
On ABC's Good Morning America a man identified as a friend of George Zimmerman, defending his friend after the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin.
The Democratic senator wrote that the U.S. Justice Department, which is already investigating the death of Florida teenager Trayon Martin, has an obligation to investigate the controversial self-defense law that critics say was a factor in Martin's death.
Lady Gaga has had a whirlwind few days, winning awards, abandoning the media, mourning the struggles of the world, setting sales records and dancing herself to exhaustion.
Galvanizing public outrage and protest across the U.S., the Trayvon Martin case has garnered much national attention and daily reports continue to emerge in the case.
On Friday morning, Tracy Martin revealed that his son Trayvon had saved his life during a house fire when the boy was only 9 years old. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother, said that the teen's grandfather was a police officer.
Thousands of people protested Thursday night demanding an arrest of 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain who last month shot dead Florida black teen Trayvon Martin.
On Thursday morning, Rev. Al Sharpton's 87-year-old mother Ada Sharpton passed away following a prolonged battle with dementia and Alzheimer's. Sharpton still plans to headline a rally in Florida.
Several Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested early Wednesday as the movement gathered in Union Square Park. The protesters marched uptown from their former encampment at Zuccotti Park after the NYPD closed the area off on Saturday night. In total, six protesters were taken into custody on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to obstructing governmental administration, according to the NY Times.
A grand jury will investigate the shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, state attorney Norm Wolfinger said Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI have begun an investigation into the case of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed black boy who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain in an Orlando suburb.
Germany has elected former civil rights activist and pastor as its president.
Actor George Clooney was released from jail Friday afternoon several hours after he was arrested after protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
Is George Clooney’s satellite monitoring of Sudan ethical?
The Obama administration has been quietly negotiating with representatives of the Conference of Catholic Bishops to tamp down their furious opposition to a federal mandate that insurance companies cover birth control, according to sources familiar with the talks.
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