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'Mad Men' and Race? Let's Talk Gender
(The Root) — Mad Men is an excellent television show for a variety of reasons, among them great writing, acting, direction, costume design and set design. The dialogue on the show is so on point that you can imagine yourself in the writers’ room and the painstaking process they go through to ensure that the…
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When Will Apologies Sound Genuine?
This has been a heck of a week for bullying in the news. Dharun Ravi — the Rutgers University student in New Jersey who was facing up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of invasion of privacy and several second-degree-bias charges for using a webcam to tape and live-feed roommate Tyler Clementi’s intimate…
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Pam's House Blend Weighs In on NC Amendment
On Tuesday, May 8, North Carolina voters will determine if the state constitution will be altered to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. If passed, Amendment One will eliminate all domestic partnerships. Award-winning LGBT blogger and activist Pam Spaulding, of Pam’s House Blend, has been fighting the good fight, keeping people…
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'Girls' Please: HBO Follows TV's Model of Success
HBO’s latest hit ‘Girls’ has come under fire for showing yet another version of New York as a white world where people of color don’t exist. In an article “What’s the Big Deal About the Lack of Black ‘Girls?’” ‘Madame Noire’s’ Brande Victorian takes on critics of the new “it-show” saying that the writer should…
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'Malcolm X': 20 Years Later
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s seminal film, Malcolm X. In commemoration of the film’s anniversary, Warner Bros. and Lee are releasing the film on Blu-ray. Lee’s 200-minute epic examines the life of one of America’s most interesting and complicated figures. Denzel Washington’s performance as Malcolm X is quite…
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'Minstrel' Critique of Barkley Uncivilized
In an article entitled, “Charles Barkley: A Modern-Day Minstrel Act,” International Business Times writer Palash R. Ghosh takes NBA analyst and Hall of Famer Charles Barkley to task for being “a modern-day minstrel.” Aside from likening Barkley to Stepin Fetchit and casually lumping rappers into the mix, Ghosh takes aim at a “boorish” Barkley. Ghosh…
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4 Questions With Gil Robertson IV
If you haven’t yet heard of the African-American Film Critics Association, you probably will in the very near future. The AAFCA consists mainly of African-American journalists dedicated to exploring the cinematic arts. The AAFCA recently announced its top 10 films of 2011. Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, topped the list, followed by…
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Religious War? Arabic School Bombed in Nigeria
Straight from our “Exactly what we don’t need” file, a religious war may be brewing in Nigeria after an Arabic school was bombed on Tuesday in Nigeria’s Christian South. According to Aderogba Obisesan of the AFP, police said that “attackers threw a ‘low-capacity’ bomb into an Arabic school in a drive-by attack in Nigeria’s mainly…
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VIDEO: Phylicia Barnes Remembered; Still No Arrest
Vigils for murdered North Carolina honor student Phylicia Barnes were held in Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C., on the anniversary of the day the teenager went missing. Barnes was visiting family members in Baltimore when she disappeared from her half sister’s apartment on Dec. 28. She had been the subject of a multijurisdictional missing-persons investigation since…
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