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Poet Carolyn Rodgers Dies at 69
Carolyn Rodgers, a leading force in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s has passed away. Carolyn Rodgers, a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s whose work wove strands of feminism, black power, spirituality and writerly self-consciousness into a sometimes raging, sometimes ruminative search for identity, died…
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Rapper Guru Passes Away at 47
Below is an excerpt of Guru’s obituary in the New York Times Though Guru came to be known as one of the formative rappers of the flourishing New York hip-hop scene of the late 1980s and early ’90s, he was not a native. Born Keith Elam in the Roxbury section of Boston on July 17,…
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Haiti's National Soccer Team Seek Tents for Home
In preparing for a May 5th match against Argentina, members of Haiti’s national soccer team have not forgotten the friends and family devastated by the earthquake After the Haitian national team could not eat another bite of chef-prepared pork or ice cream, and before going back to its cabins at a Texas resort, Coach Jairo…
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At Least 11 Missing Following Gulf Coast Oil Rig Explosion
An accident took place at an oil rig off the Gulf Coast and now authorities are searching for eleven people missing following the blast Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O’Berry says the explosion happened around 10 p.m. Tuesday, 52 miles southeast of Venice, La., while 126 workers were aboard. The rig was still…
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Army Officer Refuses Deployment, Says Obama is 'Illegal'
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin loves America and will defend her until the end, unless he questions the legitimacy of the Commander-In-Chief, which he does. And here we go again… Lakin refused to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., for deployment and instead showed up at the Pentagon, where he was told that he would face a…
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Caster Semenya Makes Rare Public Appearance
Still emrbroiled in a dispute of her gender and how it affects her competition status, Caster Semenya made a rare public appearance yesterday for the opening of the Caster Semenya Sports Academy The 19-year-old Semenya, who has been at the center of a gender dispute, was wearing a green and yellow training top and striped…
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Sometimes, Minstrelsy Is … Minstrelsy
Jamelle of PostBourgie thinks the attacks on Charles Blow’s recent column on blacks in the Tea Party are off-base: I wouldn’t say that Friedersdorf is missing the point here, I’m not sure if he’s aware enough to grasp the problem with this particular display of “diversity.” Conor calls Blow’s piece unfair, asserting that “In any…
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Family Affair: "Is Rahm Emanuel Right About Obama?"
Rahm Emanuel thinks Barack Obama’s worldview is much like that of George Bush the Older. Nine experts from Foreign Policy weigh in on that assessment. Below is an excerpt from Robert Kagan, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace I will leave it to the self-described realists to explain in greater detail the…
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Jay Smooth of Nil Doctrine Mentally Karate Chops T-Pain
This is one of the best vlogs series on the web and expect to see these gems from Jay Smooth on the Buzz from time to time.