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Crazy Talk: Palin: Obama Wants Discrimination
Sarah Palin has come up with a brand-new criticism of the president with an old, worn-out theme: reverse racism (we think that’s what she’s getting at, at least). She’s decided that Barack Obama wants to return American to discrimination similar to that of the days “before the Civil War.” She told Fox News’ Sean Hannity:…
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Dad Forces Son to Hold Sign for Bad Grades
A Miami dad is getting attention for his use of an innovative and embarrassing method to teach his son a lesson about the consequences of poor academic performance and behavior. The seventh-grade student was forced to stand on a street corner with a sign reading, “I want to be a class clown. Is it wrong?” and asking…
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The 'Oprah Effect': Bad for Book Sales?
During Oprah’s Book Club’s 15-year run, anything she selected was pretty much guaranteed to become a best-seller, since sales seemed to shoot automatically through the roof. An author couldn’t get any luckier than to be endorsed by the Queen of Talk. But it turns out that big booksellers such as Barnes & Noble and the…
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TV One's 'Unsung' Honors Whodini
Unsung on cable’s TV One will chronicle the musical contributions of Whodini, the 1980s rap group made famous for its chart-topping hit, “The Freaks Come Out at Night.” The group scored several urban-radio hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, and despite having its music featured heavily in music samples and films and on sitcoms, few…
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Don Cornelius: Underappreciated?
An article suggests that the creator, owner, producer and host of Soul Train, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head last month, was underappreciated while he was alive. And he may have died knowing it. Read an excerpt from the New York Times: “You pick the 20 most important people in the…
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CDC Launches HIV Campaign for Black Women
No matter how you look at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s numbers on African-American women and HIV, the news is bad: The agency said that black women account for almost 60 percent of all new HIV infections among women and 13 percent of new infections overall. And the rate of new infections among…
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Obama's Day, March 9: Discussing the Economy in Virginia
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Can a Heart Drug Cure Racism?
Researchers in Britain say that a common drug called propranolol, used to lower blood pressure in heart disease patients, was also found to lower “implicit” racist attitudes as well: From the Huffington Post: The findings, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, offer new evidence about the processes in the brain that shape implicit racial bias, said…
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Crazy Talk: Rihanna's Dad's Weird Comments
Some who wondered why Rihanna would have anything to do with Chris Brown after he beat her to a pulp played armchair psychologist, speculating about whether “daddy issues” might have something to do with that seemingly self-defeating decision. After reading about the most recent interview with her father, Ronald Fenty, in the upcoming issue of…
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