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From Seun Adbiyi At The Huffington Post As a 26 year-old African-American, I don’t know which is more difficult: trying to make history as the first Nigerian delegate in the Winter Olympics, or finding a donor for a bone marrow transplant.

NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama.

Las Vegas resident, Johnny Wicks, apparently disgruntled over the loss of a recent Social Security claim opened fire with a shotgun in a federal courthouse Monday, killing a court security officer and injuring a deputy U.S. marshal, authorities said.

PHILADELPHIA — A former assistant prosecutor has been sworn in as Philadelphia’s first black district attorney. Seth Williams was inaugurated Monday in a ceremony at the Kimmel Center downtown, along with re-elected City Controller Alan Butkovitz and newly elected city judges.

Eunice Johnson, the widow of Ebony Magazine founder John H. Johnson and an icon in the world of fashion, has died, according to a published report.

By Jesus stripes I believe she will be healed! I hear what the doctors are saying But how many know we serve a BIG GOD!

As we close the chapter on 2009 and a decade, it is time to reflect on the paths in our life that have brought us here.