Women’s World Cup Breaks Twitter Record and Captivates the Country

The 2011 Women’s World Cup Final ended with Japan beating the USA team 2-2 on penalty kicks and broke the world record for tweets per second. This means that it beat the wedding of Prince William and Kate and the death of Osama Bin Laden. The final drew 7,196 tweets per second, while Osama Bin Laden’s death was 5,106 tweets per second. Japan’s victory capped off a storybook ending for the team, who were previously 0-25 against the Americans.

Japan is just four months removed from a devastating tsunami and were not considered real contenders to win this year’s World Cup. In fact, the team couldn’t practice at night due to power outages from the tsunami. They also couldn’t  run any real full drills since the playing fields there were in such bad shape. All they could do was conditioning (jogging and running) and not really practice soccer before the World Cup tournament.

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Justin Burkhardt

Obama Raps to the World About Osama

He returns for yet another hip hop tribute in a comical way…
“It’s lights out for the hide and seek champion. We found him in a dusty looking mansion.”

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Lashunda

Donald Trump May Tell Obama He’s Fired

Is Donald Trump a real challenge to Barack Obama in the 2012 election? A new CNN opinion poll released Tuesday (CNN Poll) has Trump, the real estate tycoon and reality TV star, in a virtual tie with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee atop possible Republican nominees in 2012.

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Justin Burkhardt

Egypt Is NOT The United States! And Give Yourself More Credit!

Over the last several weeks, I’ve seen a number of articles and Facebook status updates asking why our nation’s youth aren’t in the streets protesting corruption in the same way that our generational counterparts are in Egypt. After all, the dedication that we are seeing broadcast live on the Internet highlights how committed our young African counterparts are to their futures.

But I don’t think it’s healthy to compare our generation’s struggles here in the United States with those in Egypt. While Color Lines highlights how similar the socio-economic realities of young Egyptians are compared to that of young people of color, specifically young blacks, I think we are denying our own movement history if we go too far with the comparison.

More after the jump.

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Biko Baker

Cornel West “Fired Up About Barack Obama” on NPR

Professor West recently showed up at NPR (with his afro) and got a lot a little flustered when talking about Barack Obama. We clipped the interview for you because we know you have ADD!
Cornel West “Fired Up About Barack Obama” by 99problemsdotorg

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The Editor