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  • The '10 Census…1910 Census

    This one from The New York Daily News doesn’t get the blood boiling so much as it just seems odd. On the 2010 Census, one of the boxes checked for race is classified as Negro. Question No. 9 on this year’s census form asks about race, with one of the answers listed as “black, African-Am.…

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  • Tavis Smiley Ends State of the Black Union Conference

    The State of the Black Union is no more. Tavis Smiley has elected to end his State of the Black Union Conference. Smiley wishes to focus on other projects and cited new realities that change of the relevance of the decade-long conference. Smiley also said that, unlike a decade ago, black issues now are being…

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  • Venus Wept: Booty Pop Panties

    Have a long back? Wish you had a bit more “junk in the trunk”? Well, your dreams have finally come true! Booty Pop? BOOTY POP? Was this one of Alpa Chino’s other products? Let’s try to ignore for a moment the Kidz Bop tone of this commercial that would make the people responsible for the…

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  • The Anti-Gay Conference of Uganda is…Something

    Jim Burroway over on Box Turtle Bulletin has posted three videos from the anti-gay conference in Uganda featuring Scott Lively, an “expert” on homosexuality who delivers a “nuclear bomb” to all things gay. Check out the videos below Lively on Sexual Orientation Lively on the Causes of Homosexuality Thanks for clearing that up, Scott.

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  • Check It Out: President Obama's Aviation Security Remarks

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  • Check It Out: Steele Uses Slur to Talk about GOP Values

    Honest Injun, Michael? Next thing you know, Steele will be catching n*ggers by the toe and throwing them in the paddy wagon. Good grief.

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  • Read/React: Brit Hume's Advice to Tiger

    …Fire at will.

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  • Ice Cold: Alpha Phi Alpha Freezes Membership Intake Nationwide

    Alpha Phi Alpha won’t have any new members strolling anywhere any time soon. Amid allegations of all the illegal hazing that “doesn’t happen”, the General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Innnncorporated has suspended new member intake nationwide. According to Macon.com The ruling, announced to active members in a letter from the fraternity’s General President Herman…

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  • Blacks Lose Majority in Harlem

    The New York Times has an interesting article today on the population shift in Harlem For nearly a century, Harlem has been synonymous with black urban America. Given its magnetic and growing appeal to younger black professionals and its historic residential enclaves and cultural institutions, the neighborhood’s reputation as the capital of black America seems…

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  • Morgan Freeman's Voice Solves Everything

    Is there anything Morgan Freeman’s voice can’t do? CBS doesn’t think so and have tapped Freeman to replace Walter Cronkite’s Evening News voiceover intro Nearly six months after his death, Walter Cronkite’s voice is leaving the “CBS Evening News.” The CBS News legend recorded a voiceover introducing current anchor Katie Couric when she started on…

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