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izraelj
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Feb 29, 2008 10:17 AM
Former NBA player Latrell Sprewell is the kind of sports role model I can dig. I know, I know: I say all the time that our kids should not be looking up to athletes. Well, in Sprewell we have a good example for our kids… of exactly what NOT to do to get...
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samuelt
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Feb 27, 2008 10:57 AM
Duane "Dog" Chapman's show returns to the A&E Channel, and I can't wait. He should have never been taken off TV in the first place. I didn't get bent out of shape when I heard he'd used the dreaded "N-word" in a secretly taped phone conversation for...
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izraelj
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Feb 25, 2008 02:23 PM
On March 13, 2006 two young black women, professional strippers, were hired for a college party. Within a month, the nation was embroiled in the Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal , where a number of white men were accused of raping one of the dancers. This was...
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izraelj
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Feb 22, 2008 12:53 PM
The anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination comes and goes without so much as a blurb or aside in news coverage. This is because mainstream America only remembers him as The Angry Black Man. In the go-along-to-get-along era, he dared to be non-compliant....
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izraelj
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Feb 21, 2008 11:37 AM
Oprah Winfrey opened her flagship retail store in Chicago, Illinois recently, dedicated to "comfort and enlightenment." The store, not far from Harpo Studios, is 5,500 square feet of mugs, t-shirts and key chains emblazoned with witticisms and wise words...
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izraelj
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Feb 18, 2008 04:25 PM
For better than a year now, rumors of a Michael Jackson comeback have persisted . This month, he released a 25 th anniversary CD/DVD to celebrate the 1982 release of " Thriller ," complete with remixes and such. I got no taste for the redux: make with...
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izraelj
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Feb 15, 2008 09:31 AM
Tavis Smiley is hosting his ninth annual State of The Black Union Conference on Feb. 23 and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has turned down an invitation with the same tact he's avoided attachments to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the...
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izraelj
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Feb 13, 2008 10:36 AM
Valentine's Day is tomorrow and there's nothing like it to make you down on love, especially when you're single. But Gary Coleman's story gives us all hope. Looks like the 40-year-old Coleman has found love at long last in 22-year old Shannon Price, and...
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izraelj
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Feb 12, 2008 02:36 PM
From the beginning of Cosby's Crusade, when I declared that America's Dad was out of pocket , I've opposed his war on poor Black America. Not just because my (single) mother, Artina, and all my kids have 'funny names'. Besides the fact that Cosby isn't...
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izraelj
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Feb 8, 2008 02:29 PM
Before she was confirmed, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Julie Myers gave a prize to a white co-worker in blackface and a dreadlock wig for having the best costume at a Halloween party, and posed for digital camera pictures with the happy winner....
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izraelj
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Feb 6, 2008 03:43 PM
Yes, it's true: film has done a better job of portraying the black experience in recent years . And they seem to bring out all of their Black stuff this month, to let us know just how far we've come. But to the extent I have any use for black history...
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izraelj
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Feb 5, 2008 04:54 PM
Gina McCauley, famously of whataboutourdaughters.com , was offended by "B-Girls", the page on BET.com where young ladies with slashed occupations ("model/actress") sent soft-core porn shots to be posted online. So she attacked the advertisers in a blog...
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izraelj
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Feb 1, 2008 04:53 PM
Wesley Snipes: Tax Avenger Wesley Snipes would do well to learn a cardinal rule in any court proceeding: Anytime your lawyers use words like 'kooky,' 'crazy,' or 'loony' in your defense, it doesn't bode well. A jury in Ocala, Florida deliberates on the...
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