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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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Jun 2, 2008 12:14 AM
Clinton supporters can shake their bon-bons as she bangs out Puerto Rico, winning it handily . I didn't take it seriously, but I'm left wondering if the Ricky Martin endorsement meant more than we thought it ever could.......
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