Diddy’s Daughters’ Tearful Exit From Trial Ignites Black America’s Outcry
Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
A White Waitress at a St. Louis Restaurant Calls a Black Woman Customer the B-Word on Video, and It Only Gets Worse From There…
Mama Duke Just Dropped Another Banger and Fans Say It’s As Good As Her ‘America’s Got Talent’ Hit
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Obama Voices Worry About Mideast Peace Talks
According to Erica Werner of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, visiting the world’s most populous Muslim nation, expressed deep concern Tuesday that Israelis and Palestinians aren’t making the “extra effort” to secure a breakthrough for achieving Middle East peace. Obama said he hasn’t seen the kind of progress in negotiations that “could finally create…
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Schwarzenegger: No One Cares If You Smoke a Joint
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno to discuss a recent marijuana law he signed. The Hollywood actor-turned-governor signed a law five weeks ago that made possession of up to an ounce of marijuana the equivalent of a traffic ticket. It carries a penalty of no more than a $100…
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Rock Band Remakes 'Just Like a Negro'
Jackyl is a rock band out of Georgia that recently released a video for its song ‘Just Like a Negro.’ The song is somewhat of a cover of ‘Like a Negro’ by Mother’s Finest, a multiracial funk-rock band out of Atlanta (the outfit was all black when it recorded the song). Jackyl’s version is from…
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Can Our Politics Stop Being Stupid?
Every campaign season brings its own share of frustrations. This one is no different. So now I get to vent. The polls are closed. The outcomes are known (mostly). And the spinmeisters have done what they do. Yet I feel entitled to one final campaign postmortem. In three big ways, I found this campaign season…
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Fact-Check the Rhyme
By Paul Devlin As of this week, rap finally has an anthology, published by Yale University Press. The Anthology of Rap sets out to capture the evolution of rap lyrics through what its editors consider representative examples, collecting the work of a wide variety of MCs who recorded from 1979 through 2009, from Grandmaster Caz to Joell…
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Reclaiming Civility
When President Obama spoke at a White House press conference the day after the midterm elections, among his most salient points was his statement that our country must embrace civility again. No truer words could have been spoken. We witnessed a veritable slugfest among candidates leading up to Election Day, everything from a plethora of…
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Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders
Women are almost invisible in civil rights storytelling, and hardly present in the civil rights canon. What they did and who they were in the Southern freedom movement of the 1960s remains barely understood. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, a new book by 52 women who worked for the…
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MJ's Mom on Beatings: That's How Blacks Raised Kids
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired today, Joe Jackson finally admitted that he beat his son Michael and other members of the famous Jackson brood. After denying it at the beginning of the interview, Joe said he’d done it and that it was the right thing to do. “It kept them out of…
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Study: Fast-Food Industry Dishes Up Unhealthy Marketing to Youth
Children as young as age 2 are seeing more fast-food ads than ever before, and restaurants rarely offer parents the healthy kids’-meal choices, according to a new study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The new evaluation, the most comprehensive study of fast-food nutrition and marketing ever conducted, shows that fast-food marketers…
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Single Mother of 4 Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million for Music Piracy
According to Billboard, a federal jury has decided that Jammie Thomas-Rasset owes $1.5 million for sharing 24 songs over the Internet. Jurors determined Wednesday, Nov. 3, that Jammie Thomas-Rasset from Minnesota owes $62,500 per song. Last year a federal jury found that Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on the 24 songs when she used the…