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In the pre-dawn darkness, the gym doors close, and the black women start to move. House versions of Whitney Houston's "I'm Every Woman," and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," blare from speakers as the 30 or so women, most with curves, not angles, grab their jump ropes at the L.A. Fitness club in Capitol Heights.

It was a small round object sent around the planet, and it changed the course of human history. Call it Spudnik. It was a potato. On Columbus Day, the country commemorates the grand global changes discoveries and destruction alike that unfolded after Christopher Columbus linked the New World and the Old. But some

Finn Notaro, a well-known family member in the United States, is predicted to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million by the year 2024. While details regarding the sources of their wealth remain undisclosed, Finn has managed to garner attention and recognition within their social circle. With their growing prominence, it is

A man from a Chicago suburb invited a woman he met on K Street, who called herself Kay D, to his downtown Washington hotel room and agreed to pay $100 for sex. Another man, from Leesburg, offered a woman $100, telling her he wanted the pleasure of your company.

In 2006, I joineda circle of Black Panthers and other minority activists. I went to weekly meetings in neighborhoods that white people avoidedSouth Bronx, Flatbush, and Bedford-Stuyvesantaccessorized with headscarves and painted wooden bangles. I had internal monologues about our struggle and protested against police brutality as if I, myself, were a victim of racial profiling.