Disgruntled New York City resident Jimmy McMillan stole the show at a debate for the state’s gubernatorial candidates as he introduced himself and his self-created political “Rent is Too Damn High” party to the public. “The people I’m here to represent can’t even afford to pay their rent.”

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Juan Williams, a longtime NPR news analyst, was fired two days after claiming that Muslims make him “nervous” and “worried” on planes, when asked if the country was facing a “Muslim dilemma” on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

NPR announced that same evening that they were ending Williams’ contract with the company.

Mark Whitaker has joined CNN Worldwide in a newly created role as executive vice president and managing editor, reporting directly to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.

Thousands of fans cheered on as America’s top Black cowboy and cowgirls headlined the National Western complex’s Martin Luther King Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo on Monday. Champion Black rodeo athletes including Lawrence Greer, Lee Vann, Justin Richard and Aliza Fulbright competed in the Pony Express relay, ladies’ steer undercoating, bull-dogging and more traditional rodeo events.

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President Barack Obama recently signed H.R. 6118 into law. It names the United States Postal Service office located on Massachusetts Avenue in northeast D.C. after civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height. “This bill, (marks) the first time a federal building in the nation’s capital has been named for an African American woman, and is cause for celebration,” Eleanor Holmes Norton said in a statement.