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No Room at The Inn
The calls started coming in as soon at the election results did. “So, Veronica,” the caller would begin, “what’s up for inauguration?” The query seems innocent enough—if you don’t live in Washington, D.C. But if you do live in the District—as I do—you soon realize that people don’t really care about your plans for inauguration.…
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God Don't Like Ugly
I can’t wait for Nov. 4. It’s not just because I’ll finally be casting a ballot in my first presidential election (though, don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty friggin’ stoked about it). But really, I’m in tip-toe anticipation of that first Tuesday in November, because I’m hoping, hoping hard, that on Election Day, all the…
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Bourgie 'R Us
Forget Black Voices, The YBF or the sadly outmoded Black Planet. For young, upwardly-mobile people of color who are in-the-know, there’s one Web site that trumps all of the above—Stuff Educated Black People Like. Notice the qualifier, “Educated.” It’s so very necessary. You see, we so often have to remind others (and ourselves) that we’re…
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