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Gil Noble, producer and host of the public affairs program “Like It Is,” has interviewed famous African Americans like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and Paul Robeson is retiring.

Gil Noble

Born on February 22, 1932 in New York, NY
Journalist, TV Producer, Host, Documentarian

President Obama said Moammar Gadhafi's death marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the Libyan people. The seven-month military campaign that toppled the Libyan leader also marks a high point for the kind of international cooperation that Obama has championed.

The White House was careful Thursday not to claim vindication for the president's policies, but the Libyan exercise does offer an example of what an "Obama Doctrine" might look like.

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain is trying to tamp down controversy over his comments about abortion.

"I'm 100% pro-life. End of story," he tweeted.

Cain's comment in a CNN interview that decisions about abortion should be left to women and their families raised eyebrows and drew a rebuke from rival Rick Santorum.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson was so heavily drugged in the hours before his death that he would have been incapable of self-administering the massive dose of propofol that killed him, a medical expert testified Thursday at the trial of Jackson’s doctor.
Dr. Steven Shafer, who presented a number of possible scenarios for Jackson’s overdose, said one posed by Dr. Conrad Murray’s defense — that the star gave himself the powerful anesthetic — is “crazy.”

The U.S. Congress have warned that a return to Liberia by former president Charles Taylor would have far-reaching consequences and seriously undermine bilateral relations.
One suggested he would support cutting U.S. aid if Taylor was allowed back into political life in Liberia.

In a sworn-oath deposition, a software programmer testifies that US elections are rigged and that US Representatives tried to pay him to rig their election vote counts.

Laurence Fishburne is the narrator for an upcoming PBS documentary on black workers in the post-slavery South.

The film, titled "Slavery by Another Name," is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon.

PBS on Thursday announced Fishburne's role as narrator of the documentary that will debut Feb. 13, 2012, on public TV stations nationwide.

"Slavery by Another Name" examines the labor practices and laws "that effectively created new forms of slavery" after emancipation, subjecting blacks to brutal forced work, according to the filmmakers.

If you live in the United States long enough, most of the
carbon atoms in your body will be derived from corn, as
demonstrated in the first scene of this clip.

As University of Virginia professor, Steve Macko explains,
this carbon doesn’t come from eating corn-on-the-cob, it comes
mostly from the many chemically-engineered, corn-based

US and North Korean officials are to meet next week in Geneva to try to revive stalled international talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear program.
A state department spokesman in Washington said the talks in Switzerland would be "a continuation of the exploratory meetings".
The six-party talks broke down in April 2009, just before Pyongyang carried out its second nuclear test.
The US envoy for North Korea is to step down after the Geneva talks.
Washington said on Wednesday that Stephen Bosworth would be replaced by Glyn Davies, the current US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Washington: The dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monument symbolized the “Dream Lives On”. On Saturday and Sunday, thousands marched, sung, and cried as the dedication of a monument for one so great took its place once again on the eternal stage of legacy and brotherhood. The towering granite monument is a symbolic reminder that the civil rights leader's dream of social and economic justice is a perpetual consciousness that unfolds, enlightens, and enables humanity to love, empathize, and trust one another.