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May 30, 2008 03:15 PM
Sen. Hillary Clinton should realize that while people certainly notice she’s a woman , Clinton gets more benefits from her gender than not, as her supporters would have you beleive . Early in the race, when it came to light that she was “mis-remembering”...
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May 28, 2008 04:06 PM
CNN commentator Lou Dobbs got caught out there making a nod to the old school when he referred to black leadership as “cotton-pickers.” Yeah, it would be easy to just take his remark as a general diss that kind of transcends racial lines, except that...
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May 26, 2008 05:46 PM
Director Spike Lee criticized actor/director Clint Eastwood for not having black people in his two war films , but Dirty Harry wasn’t having it. Eastwood pointed out that during World War II, most if not all American military units were segregated , and...
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May 21, 2008 08:44 PM
When it comes to the Black American experience, I don’t know that television has ever gotten it right—but then again, I don’t know if they are supposed to. I’ve long been a critic of people who think that entertainment should act as a kind of de facto...
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May 19, 2008 06:49 PM
If you are as avid a reader as I am—and I know that you are—then you know what it’s like to go into your favorite chain book-store and have to hunt down the Black Book Ghetto™. You know, the space in the bookstore—sometime in a broom closet, toilet stall...
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May 16, 2008 11:47 AM
The Sean Bell Tragedy and the recent use of excessive force by police in Philadelphia underscores a fact of life in this country: police feel justified applying deadly force on young black men, as we are perceived as dangerous and threatening. Any move,...
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May 14, 2008 02:55 PM
Despite the ironic stench of urine and after many stops and starts, singer R. Kelly’s trial on several counts of child pornography moves forward . As it lurches ahead, many people who have been waiting for this case to go to trial may be disappointed....
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May 12, 2008 01:29 PM
Barbara Walters’ new book spills the tea and threatens the legacy of this storied legendary journalist. Once a talent like Walters begins telling tales out of school about her sexual indiscretions, she crosses the line between credible media maven and...
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May 8, 2008 04:43 PM
Sextapes are no longer remarkable. But a tape purporting to feature guitarist Jimi Hendrix and two alabaster young ingénue has been unearthed and is currently on sale. A collector of some sort dug through his collection and found this suspect footage....
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May 6, 2008 02:15 AM
The Boston Globe reports that in the age of increasing immigration, more and more immigrants are choosing not to identify as black Americans. This made me wonder how we, as black Americans, identify them. Growing up in the Midwest, I didn’t encounter...
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