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The Myth of 'Acting White' and the Achievement Gap
Even broaching the topic of “acting white” is the prelude to a fight. Those two small words are imbued with so much meaning within the black community. Is it racial policing and self-sabotage that ultimately lead to underachievement? Or is it just a racialized form of bullying? While what activities lead to the charge vary,…
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Actress Vonetta McGee Passes Away
Model-turned-actress Vonetta McGee has passed away. The San Francisco native, who beat Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a young girl to grow up and star opposite Hollywood heavyweights Richard Roundtree, William Marshall and Clint Eastwood, died from a heart attack. McGee is best remembered for her roles as Aleme in Shaft in Africa, co-starring Roundtree; as Luva/Tina…
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Is Chad Ochocinco the 'Ultimate Catch' or the Ultimate Cad?
Chad Ochocinco is catching heat because of the lack of diversity in his pool of “catches” on his reality show, Chad Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch. Apparently sisters are up in arms because only three of the 17 candidates are black women. After the first round, he picked 14 white and Hispanic women, discarding the three…
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Race-Bending Beauty Practices
Race-Bending Practice: The spray tan Although pale skin was once considered ideal among people of European descent — it showed that you had enough wealth to avoid a tan from laboring under the hot sun — these days there’s nothing like a deep tan to show that you have the wealth and leisure time to…
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Race-bending Beauty
Race-Bending Practice: The spray tan Although pale skin was once considered ideal among people of European descent — it showed that you had enough wealth to avoid a tan from laboring under the hot sun — these days there’s nothing like a deep tan to show that you have the wealth and leisure time to…
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George Clinton, We Want You Back
George Clinton has represented an unparalleled creative vision since he and Parliament Funkadelic initially electrified the music and culture scene back in the 1970s. Anyone who attended a Funkadelic concert back in the day knows that the costumes, the antics, the beats, the drama, the unbridled sexuality, made for a three-ring circus of musical intrigue…
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George Steinbrenner: The Man-Child Who Would Be King
When New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died this week at 80, there was almost an obligatory succession of respectful and apparently affectionate things said about him. With melodramatic sentimentality, the eulogizers waxed on about how old George was a hard man who knew how to get things done. A lackey who introduced the baseball…
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RIP, Vernon J. Baker
by T. Rees Shapiro First Lt. Vernon J. Baker, 90, an Army infantryman who, more than 50 years after the end of World War II, became the only surviving African American to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the war, died July 13 at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He…