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Rapper 50 Cent makes $8.7 million by tweeting
The 35-year-old celeb, aka Curtis Jackson, helped pop the shares of a no-name penny stock company he’s invested in by 290 percent yesterday after chatting it up this weekend on Twitter, the social-networking site
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The Daily: Looking for Claudia Jones, a Black Stock Film
Enemy of the state, visionary, freedom fighter, rebel with a cause – just who was Claudia Jones?
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The Daily: “Only one side routinely invokes the Second Amendment as a form of swagger and intimidation”
“Only one side has made the rhetoric of armed revolt against an oppressive tyranny the guiding spirit of its grassroots movement and its midterm campaign.”
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The Daily: Zora Neale Hurston’s “Monkey Junk”
via The Chronicle. Read about “Monkey Junk” and the other two new stories by Hurston.
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Natalie P. McNeal is On the Move
Natalie P. McNeal is an award-winning journalist who launched her personal finance Frugalista blog and brand in February 2008, and is now following it up with her first book “The Frugalista Files.”
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The Daily: Haiti’s Unofficial National Amputee Soccer Team
Haiti. One year after reconstruction, still waiting.
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Bun B of UGK completes first day teaching hip hop and spirtuality at Rice University
The rapper is taking the course very seriously, as the topic of religion is a very sensitive subject. “Hip-Hop artists and musicians, their religion comes into play a lot more during the course of making their music than people would think.”
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TheDaily: Tweet Opinions, What happens if you insert “Muslim”?
Is Sarah Palin feeling “Muslim”?