Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
Should Black Americans Care That Trump Is Targeting African Nations For Deportation After Years of Africans Being So Damn Disrespectful To Us?
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Get Familiar with Yemen
The US Embassy in Yemen has been closed. Secretary Clinton has called Yemen a global threat. The Economist thinks they see something that stinks of Afghanistan In the wake of the bombing attempt on Christmas day, everyone’s boning up on Yemen, and some are getting eager to act. The Washington Post goes so far as…
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The Patriot Act of the Sky
In response to Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab’s Christmas Day attempt to down an airliner headed from Amsterdam to Detroit, the US Transportation Safety Administration is implementing a new system of passenger screening based on national origin: Citizens of Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria, countries that are considered “state sponsors of terrorism,” as well as those…
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A Pesky Teabagger Sign
Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent brings the story today of teabagger Dale Robertson and the photo of his unfortunate sign. Robertson, of TeaParty.Org, carried this especially spirited sign outside a Houston Tea Party in February of last year. The sign declared taxpayers the “niggar” to the government’s slaveowner. …No, Dale. No. Still, we do…
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Read/React: Tiger's Vanity Fair Cover
Folks like The Native Son are none-too-pleased with this cover, which seems to cover the dangerous Black guy trope again. What do you think of this cover?
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Is President Obama Giving Joe Biden the Side Eye?
Is President Obama giving Joe Biden the side eye? The answer to that question really depends on whom you ask. In fact, the raising of that questions depends upon how much we care to make mountains out of mole hills. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has apparently never seen a mountain he didn’t like. He says…
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Found: Statue of Black Egyptian Pharaoh
Interesting news out of Dangeil, Sudan where archaeologists have discovered the statue of a Black Egyptian pharaoh. From Digital Journal: The granite statue of the warrior pharaoh Taharqa weighs one ton…Taharqa was ruler of both Egypt and Nubia (Kush) during the 25th Dynasty, which was based in Nubia, which had a long history of pyramid…
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Check It Out: Mooney on Obama
Comedian Paul Mooney sits down with journalist Davey D and discusses Obama, predicting Black presidents and free speech. We’re not sure the president is utterly beyond reproach—in fact, we know he’s not—but Mooney’s points regarding the respect he’s been shown hit home. What say you?
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BOMB THE ROOT: The Keith Antar Mason Interview
Performance artist and playwright Keith Antar Mason had his turn in the limelight in the early 1990s when he and his theatrical company, The Hittite Empire, were commissioned to perform 49 Blues Songs to a Jealous Vampire at Lincoln Center. The two-hour performance, described by New York Times critic Stephen Holden as “an interlocking series…
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5 Campaign Promises That Obama Kept
1. The Health Care Bill—The health care reform bill the Senate passed last Thursday will, despite its shortcomings, ensure coverage for 31 million Americans, prohibit insurance companies from discriminating against people based on pre-existing conditions and provide $200 billion a year in subsidies to Americans making up to 400 percent above the poverty line to…
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Headlines for 2010: Part I
Even after crumpling up and trashing the foil and paper that once covered the “aughts,” the instinct to look back is hard to fight. There was war and peace, great music, movies and art, sweeping political victories and bad news for black America. Yet we have to let it go; the newest decade—the “tweens,” let’s…