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The Root Interview: dream hampton on 'Black August'
dream hampton first attracted attention in the ’90s when she was writing for the hip-hop bible, The Source, but what most people don’t realize is that writing was simply a diversion from hampton’s real love, film. “You can’t help how people identify you, but film was the only reason I was in New York in…
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The White Noise of 2010
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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Democrats Digging Deep for Support
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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CNN's Curious Math
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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Stepping Into Irrelevance?
I’ve got a question for you. What if black fraternities and sororities were asked by President Obama to place a moratorium on stepping for exactly one school year? Instead of devoting the time toward practicing and performing steps, or attending step show for that matter, they would instead use that time to create an innovative…
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The Jackson Family Affair
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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Around The World of Black Greekdom VI
Hello everyone, and welcome to our weekly round up of the who, whats, whys and how in the worlds of black Greekdom. But before we do that, I want to let you know that we’re going to have some interesting blog entries coming in the next few weeks. We’ll talk about non African Americans in…
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Around The World in Black Greekdom V
Welcome everyone to our weekly roundup of the coming and goings of the Divine Nine and its members. And man, what a week it’s been! And this week, I’ve decided to do something different. Instead of listing the news in the order of founding, which can get a bit boring fast, I’m going to list…
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The Democratic Guide to Losing Power
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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You Should Know This…AKA
Wanna know a pet peeve I have with our Divine Nine organizations? We’re great at listing all of the notable achievers from the era when television was broadcast in black and white, but we’re terrible at spotlighting current members who are breaking barriers in HD. Sure, we all know that so and so did this…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
