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Jul 23, 2008 02:53 PM
In my hometown paper, there was an interesting story about the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots and the disintegration of the middle class in the black community . The story posits that you are either the Evans or the Huxtables— the Winslows...
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Jul 21, 2008 04:05 PM
The Dark Knight hit the screen with record-breaking numbers and universally positive reviews , but I wonder how much of it is the Tupac Syndrome—the idea that, once an artist is wacked or meets an untimely death—like Tupac Shakur, for example-- his or...
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Jul 18, 2008 04:16 PM
More troubling than the Rev. Jesse Jackson getting caught on tape using the “N-word” is his insistence that you and I excise it from our vocabulary. I hope by now we know Jackson is a hypocrite who often talks out of both sides of his mouth . But rather...
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Jul 14, 2008 09:28 PM
I think we’ve all known it was just a matter of time before t he children of Drs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King began to fight over the estate of the late civil rights leader . Nothing like a dead relation and a lot of money to make even...
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Jul 12, 2008 01:15 AM
People used to give me heat for telling the Rev. Jesse Jackson to kick rocks. Yep. I used to catch a lot of flak— not so much, lately. And now rapper Nas has just made it plain. He’s calling for Jesse to step down and let the new generation of black voices—like...
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Jul 9, 2008 11:20 PM
The LA Times has this joint about white students on a high-school yearbook committee substituting the real name of students for faux ghetto names in the published version of their annual publication . This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this happening—it...
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Jul 7, 2008 07:26 PM
The investigation into the death of Ronnie White in solitary confinement of a Maryland jail is expanding to include others besides the seven jailers on-staff . Officials are looking at all 630 employees Prince George's County Correctional Center. The...
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Jul 3, 2008 06:17 PM
It’s not a secret: if you’re doing it big, Sen. Barack Obama thinks you could give a little more come tax time. He’s said this all along the campaign trail, but not had a lot of specifics. Only recently, however, have details of his plan come to the surface...
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Jul 1, 2008 04:10 PM
So. I DVR’d the BET Hip Hop vs. America II thing and I just got a chance today to review the tape. Dr. Hill (stand up Philly!) gave his take . Now, I have to give mine. The theme of this go ‘round was Where is the Love , concentrating on discussing the...
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Jun 23, 2008 08:05 PM
Rapper/Actor Ice T is engaged in a heady YouTube debate with Soulja Boy , who penned the infectious “Crank That” and had America doing the Soulja Boy step. There always seems to be a chasm between generations in hip-hop: youthful misunderstanding and...
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Jun 19, 2008 10:50 PM
When word got out about a Barack Obama sock monkey, the first thing I thought was I need to cop one of those. People that know me know that I am an avid collector of toys. But then, the thought police came out, drawing a line from the sock monkey to the...
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Jun 18, 2008 03:44 PM
Sen. Barack Obama totes the Cosby line of reasoning about fatherhood: by directing his recent message about absentee fathers towards black men , he props up the notion that we are somehow genetically predisposed to run from our paternal responsibility....
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Jun 12, 2008 06:48 PM
My work-wife (and Sapphic Sista) Jasmyne Cannick is over in BET’s shop making it happen. She’s a great writer and sistren in the struggle (such that it is), if often misguided. Case in point: Her latest blog on BET is about Tanya White, a butch sister...
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Jun 10, 2008 03:15 AM
Online Booty-Callers and BlackPlaneteers take note: In Orange County, Florida, 22-year-old Morris Williams is going to jail for having sex with 13-year old Alisha Dean, which would be right on target, if not for the fact that Dean lied about her age on...
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Jun 6, 2008 05:33 PM
The Chicago Tribune has started a blog, “Exploring Race” ostensibly to offer a forum for whites to ask uncomfortable questions about minorities, but the focus seems to be black people. Allowing this type of armchair anthropology robs us all of a little...
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