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samuelt
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Mar 31, 2008 12:18 PM
The flap about Lebron James gnarling at the camera with Giselle Bundchen in his clutches on the cover of April’s Vogue misses the point. Now, people are trying to figure out if the picture was some kind of “subconscious” allusion to King Kong. Annie Leibovitz...
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izraelj
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Mar 28, 2008 03:44 PM
Andy Warhol predicted we'd all get 15 minutes, but Ashley Dupre, former Gov. Elliot Spitzer' vivacious escort barely got 15 seconds. As soon as word of the scandal broke, the public braced itself for the book, the Playboy pictorial and the ABC Movie Of...
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izraelj
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Mar 26, 2008 12:32 PM
Phillip Morris wrote a column in my hometown paper about a sexually-active 14-year old named Brent who refuses to wear a condom. Morris bemoans the carelessness of this pubescent Pootie Tang and scolds parents of young boys like Brent, whose ignorance...
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izraelj
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Mar 24, 2008 10:50 AM
Barack Obama caught a lot of flak for saying that his Grams, who is known to say off-color things about colored folks, is just a “typical white person.” White people got incensed . Black people knew exactly what he was talking about. Some have accused...
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izraelj
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Mar 21, 2008 11:55 AM
Rocker Lenny Kravitz is proud of the steps his actor daughter is taking to jump-start her passion, but he's demanding she finish college . Kravitz knows the value of an education, but he respects the role of a side-hustle: the thing you do in your life...
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izraelj
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Mar 19, 2008 11:52 AM
Sound bites from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright 's Jeffersonian ( George , not Thomas) reflections on race and politics in this country were not unique or especially shocking. At least, not for black people, who know that older black folks are among the most...
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izraelj
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Mar 17, 2008 10:16 AM
Vanessa S. Jones at The Boston Globe noticed that a crop of reality shows purporting to showcase rappers as fathers and heads of household has popped up. Rev. Run, Irv Gotti and Snoop Dog all bring their own brand of hip-hop fathering to middle-America—f'r...
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izraelj
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Mar 14, 2008 12:47 PM
Canada is moving ahead with plans to open Afro-centric schools in an attempt to stave off the 40 percent drop-out rate among blacks. The thinking is that if kids are engaged in the material, then they will stay in school. Uhm. No. eh? Kids don't drop...
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izraelj
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Mar 12, 2008 11:48 AM
The mainstream media initially reported that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had come under fire for his "involvement with a prostitution ring." He has resigned , but that's far removed from the point for me. At first blush, the reporting suggested that he...
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izraelj
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Mar 10, 2008 09:43 AM
Initially, I avoided The Wire because I wondered if it was truly drama or just TV intent on scaring white folks into voting Republican. Three seasons ago, I gave in to the buzz, and The Wire drew me in. I'm not from Baltimore, and I have never been there,...
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izraelj
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Mar 7, 2008 10:17 AM
“ My hot, *** work-wife Jasmyne Cannick has gained quite the reputation as a rabble-rouser in the last couple of years. Sometimes, she's mounted worthwhile fights; other times, I wasn't so sure . It got to the point where I wondered aloud if she, Al Sharpton...
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izraelj
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Mar 5, 2008 04:58 PM
Unsealed testimony reveals that Major League Baller Barry Bonds tested positive for elevated testosterone in 2001. He made a lot of excuses: that he didn't know, that he was abducted by alien steroid zombies, that everyone is different. He's right—some...
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izraelj
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Mar 3, 2008 02:38 PM
Forty years later, people are re-examining the Kerner Commission Report-- in an attempt to see how far we've come. The Kerner Report, you may recall, was commissioned by LBJ to analyze the conditions that ignited the 1967 race riots. Harold Jackson's...
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