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NPR Doesn't Care About Black Music, Sorta
In a blog posted originally published on Slate, Jody Rosen details the way that liberal bastion NPR has less than warm and fuzzy feelings for Black music: In August, National Public Radio’s flagship music program All Songs Considered published “The Best Music of 2009 (So Far),” a rundown of the top 30 songs and albums…
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Don't Call It a Comeback: Egypt in Row Over Artificial Virginity Device
An artificial virginity simulator—which claims to provide an ‘authentic’ wedding night experience—has many in Egypt fired up. Just listen (with the understanding that some of the language is quite descriptive).
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94 Years Later, S. Carolina Pardons Two Death Row Inmates
It’s never too late for justice. Such is the case for Thomas and Meeks Griffin, former landowners—and relatives of radio jock Tom Joyner—who were put to death in 1913 for the murder of John Lewis, a wealthy white landowner. Wednesday, both men were unanimously pardoned posthumously by the state of South Carolina, a first. From…
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Who Doesn't 'Swastika' Obama?
According to NewsOne, someone apparently ‘swastikas’ Obama and felt the need to carve that 10×10 foot message into a Lakeville, Massachusetts golf course. We can assume this creativity is some attempt at Obama hate, but we can’t for the life of us figure it out. I swastika Obama? Are the Neo-Nazi supporting the claim that…
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UCLA Chem Lab Stabber Pleads Not Guilty
UCLA student Damon Thompson has pleaded not guilty to premeditated attempted murder following what appears to be an unprovoked attack on a female student in the lab. What he has yet to explain is why he, according to several eye witnesses, had a concealed, six-inch knife on his person and why he felt compelled to…
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Morehouse Takes a Page Out of GQ
Morehouse College considers its dress code lax and president Dr. Robert Michael Franklin, Jr has decided Morehouse Men need to get tapered up. From Black Men in America: The administration’s new policy which went into effect this month) is spear-headed by Morehouse’s new President, Dr. Robert Michael Franklin, Jr. Morehouse College has a rich tradition…
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Roger Goodell Likes Mike Vick More than Rush Limbaugh
Well, Rush doesn’t have at least one fan in his pursuit of the St. Louis Rams. That fan? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Ouch. Here’s what Goodell had to say, according to Sean Leahy of The Huddle: “I’ve said many times before, we’re all held to a high standard here,” Goodell told reporters, via the New…
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Baucus Bill Passes Senate Finance Committee
Whatever your thoughts, the Baucus Bill, the current answer for health care reform, has gotten further than any recent health care reform legislation and it has done so on the back of a 14-9 vote from the Senate Finance Committee. The lone Republican to vote in favor of the bill was Maine senator Olympia Snowe.…
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Has Hip-Hop Come "of Age"?
Joe Conzo gets misty eyed when he recalls his teenage years in the South Bronx. In those days, taking pictures was his hobby – one which led to him photographing black and Latino youths dancing to a new type of music, with its own distinctive forms of dance and art. The scene would later be…
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