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Stewart and O'Reilly
It has been a week since Bill O’Reilly goes in on Common for visiting Assata Shakur, the step-aunt of Tupac Shakur who escaped prison in 1979 after being convicted of killing a N.J. state trooper, and escaped to Cuba where she’s been living under political asylum ever since.He also slams Common for “celebrating” Mumia Abu…
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Meet Vera Stark: Domestic Ambiguity in Hollywood
For African Americans, few celluloid images cause more mixed feelings, more angst and antipathy, than that of the black domestic. On the one hand, playing the maid was often a black actress’ only entrée into the movies — think Hattie McDaniel snaring that Oscar for Gone With the Wind. And on the other hand, playing…
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Sweeping Through the Rom-Com Clichés
There are rules, of course, when it comes to making a rom-com. The boy must get the girl. The girl must get the boy. They will invariably “meet cute.” All sorts of impediments will obstruct their exceedingly convoluted path to happily ever after; hilarity, havoc and heartbreak will ensue … you get the picture. If…
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'Anything but Black' in the Dominican Republic
Certain Dominicans are willing to claim any race but black. In this installment of Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special Black in Latin America, learn how some use the term indio “to negate [their] African ancestry.”
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