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99 Problems, But AKAs Ain't One
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority honors Jay-Z. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority honors Jay-Z. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority honors Jay-Z. When I received the press release from Alpha Kappa Alpha listing the people being honored at this year’s AKA Boule in St. Louis, I literally had to read it three times for my brain to register. Alpha…
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Rapper Drake Wants to Play President Obama
Fresh from our “dream on” file, rapper Drake wants to play President Obama. The rapper, who has had a meteoric rise to fame, has now set his sights on playing President Barack Obama in a film. He says, “I don’t want to do the typical black film that everyone expects. I think that I have…
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Extended Jobless Benefits Depend on House Vote
The nation’s unemployed are on pins and needles waiting to find out if the House will approve the extension of jobless benefits. The bill, which had been filibustered by Republicans in the Senate, finally cleared that hurdle earlier this week. All eyes are on the House of Representatives to see if it will approve the…
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Black Professor at HBCU Questions Black National Anthem
Professor Timothy Askew has a problem with the black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” He says that he loves the song, but the label of “black national anthem” creates “a lot of confusion and tension.” For whom? He goes on to say that the label makes it separatist and divisive. Again, for whom?…
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Serena Williams, Big Butts and the Painful Path to Self-Love
She was born in Compton. I was born in Trinidad, the most southerly island in the Caribbean. She was raised to become a tennis superstar. In high school, my tennis instructor quietly took my parents aside and let them know that their child was ”more of an academic.” But now that we’re both grown women,…
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Shirley Sherrod, the Media and Conservative Fantasies
The best thing that could come out of the injustice done to Shirley Sherrod is a warning to America of the explosive danger of allowing a volatile topic like race to be driven by proto-journalists with political agendas in a news ecosystem that has no quality filters or brakes. In this new age of unregulated news…
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Detroit Police Chief Resigns; Reality Show Fallout May Be to Blame
Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans has resigned. Although Mayor Dave Bing’s office did not offer a reason for Evans’ resignation, Motown is speculating that there was fallout from a reality show centered around Evans called The Chief. The announcement came just hours before a Detroit television station was to report on said video. You may…
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Andrew Breitbart's Tea Party Hypocrisy
Congratulations, Andrew Breitbart. You might have just cost the Tea Party my vote. Last week when I wrote ”How the Tea Party Could Get My Vote” for The Root, I said what should already be pretty obvious: There are plenty of African Americans who enjoy conservative talk radio, who bristle when paying their income taxes and…
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Vilsack Apologizes to Sherrod, Offers Her Another Job
In a press conference at the White House just moments ago, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who fired USDA employee Shirley Sherrod on Monday after being duped into believing she gave a racist speech, apologized for his actions and said that he’s offered a new position to Sherrod. Having faced 48 hours of flack since firing…