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Love on the Flip Side of the Down Low
All the hype about closeted ”down-low” brothers a few years back sent a chill through the bedrooms of quite a few women and men. Now, a New York City-based documentarian could dislodge an iceberg with an online video series that explores the experiences of some self-identified straight women who date openly bisexual men. Arielle Loren,…
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Wale — Rhymes With Gay
By any objective measure — moral, legal, ethical, the eyes of his horrified mother — the hip-hopper Wale screwed up. Management for the gifted artist best known for his duet with Lady Gaga contracted him to perform at D.C. Black Pride, a 20-year-old festival—for 45 minutes and $18,000. At the last minute, his team backed…
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‘Plus-Size Activewear’ is Not an Oxymoron
Folks, I can’t seem to get back to the gym, and I’ve lost almost all motivation. I say almost, because I can think of one thing that will get me back ASAP, and that’s new workout clothes. I really don’t have a thing to wear. My old, trusty black sweats are so worn out, even…
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The Flub Five: 5 Black Ads That Need to Not Exist
Some commercials featuring black actors/performers just make you want to shake your head and cry a little. Below, The BVX goes in on five such monstrosities, one of which being the new Old Spice ads. 2. Mandigo Meets Cujo Meets Godzilla No, it’s not the story Glenn Beck tells his children to make them eat…
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Former Fla. GOP Chair Busted for Bilking Benjamins From Party
Former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer has been charged with a number of felonies in connection with trying to skim from the Florida GOP. The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida has been arrested for allegedly running a scam bilking money from the party. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement took Jim Greer…
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Who Will Speak for the Defense on the Supreme Court?
On the second day of his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall got into a verbal tussle with Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Only a year before Marshall’s hearing, the Supreme Court had decided Miranda v. Arizona, the case in which the Supreme Court held that prosecutors would be unable…
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Buzz (Saw) Kill: Effort to Contain Gulf Spill Stalled
Another effort to stem the geyser in the Gulf Coast has hit a snag. The risky effort to contain the nation’s worst oil spill hit a snag Wednesday when a diamond-edged saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen…
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Today in Post-racialism: Study Finds Blacks Barred From Southern Juries
A study conducted by the Equal Justice Initiative has found that blacks’ exclusion from sitting on Southern juries is a practice that remains in vogue and unchecked. In late April in a courthouse in Madison County, Ala., a prosecutor was asked to explain why he had struck 11 of 14 black potential jurors in a…
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Blog Noir: "Skinny People Shop at Whole Foods"
Over on Think Progress, Jamelle Bouie explores the link between poverty and obesity. In the excerpt below, Bouie explains that the problem can’t merely be linked to access to more nutritional food It’s not that healthier ingredients are absent or too expensive — even lower-priced supermarkets have plenty of fresh produce available — it’s that…