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izraelj
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Apr 29, 2008 12:58 AM
Listening to the radio, I feel like I’m on another planet—sounds like the robots have taken over hip-hop , and it all makes me a little more than nostalgic for Roger Troutman . Roger Troutman was that brother from around my way who rose to fame by incorporating...
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izraelj
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Apr 25, 2008 06:31 PM
PBS is airing the first extended interview with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright tonight . Bill Moyer will pummel him with hard questions about his patriotism and the politics of the pulpit, and Wright won’t back away, instead standing firm on his principles....
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izraelj
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Apr 23, 2008 07:28 PM
I watch Ego Trip’s Miss Rap Supreme on vH1 and now I know why women have such a hard time finding a comfortable space in hip-hop culture, and rap music specifically. Female rappers seem to be struggling to bring a relevant message to the foreground that...
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izraelj
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Apr 21, 2008 06:42 PM
I'm not a fan of the "entourage:" I'll crew-up, but you'll never see me screwed-up in anyone's posse, following them from store to store, laughing at all their jokes. Fetching their latte. The Wall Street Journal reports that sport figures are starting...
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izraelj
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Apr 17, 2008 10:48 AM
At the root of the Negro problem is the necessity of the white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to live with himself" James Baldwin I watched Meeting David Wilson on MSNBC and couldn't decide if it was a triumphant documentary or just...
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izraelj
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Apr 14, 2008 10:00 AM
Tavis Smiley has resigned his post as political commentator for the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show —turns out his recent behavior garnered vocal detractors. I'm not a fan, but I don't want to see him go. Will someone please send that brother...
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izraelj
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Apr 11, 2008 12:18 PM
GOP candidate David Bellavia, a supporter of Sen. John McCain, got hemmed up in the media after what some took to be an oblique reference to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama during McCain's introduction on Capitol Hill. Bellavia was...
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izraelj
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Apr 9, 2008 10:56 AM
Cable network MTV celebrates the 20 th anniversary of Yo! MTV Raps , all this month. Yo! was a two-hour block of rap videos hosted by Dr. Dre (no, not THAT one, THIS one) and Ed Lover, and it represents, for a lot of middle America, their first introduction...
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izraelj
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Apr 7, 2008 12:42 PM
Last week, during the segment I host every Friday on NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin , we spent some time putting the dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. into perspective. However, we didn't have time to acknowledge the varied degrees of dream...
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izraelj
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Apr 4, 2008 12:36 PM
Singer Sean Levert , serving a 22-month term for felony non-payment of $85,000 in child support, is dead after being found unresponsive in his jail cell. The family is asking the FBI to investigate , but Levert should have never been in jail in the first...
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Apr 2, 2008 10:37 AM
Model, mom and mogul Kimora Lee-Simmons and her hip-hop husband, Russell "Rush" Simmons are headed to divorce court . They've been got a 'hood divorce some time ago, as both have been shacking up with other folks. Now it looks to be official—amidst pregnancy...
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