Why the Black Internet Believes Grammys Just Threw Shade at Beyoncé
Proof The ‘Absent Black Father’ Was a Big Lie
Jay-Z’s Daughter Rumi Carter Throws Up the Roc Nation Sign On Stage, Sparking Insane Illuminati Theories
Black Musicians Who Were Targeted By The FBI and Other Law Enforcement
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Body of Missing 5-Year-Old Girl Found
The body of a 5-year-old believed to be Shaniya Davis was discovered Monday in Fayetteville, N.C. Authorities are awaiting identity confirmation, but believe it to be the little girl. From CNN: “The body was located by searchers shortly after 1 p.m., Chance told reporters. People at the scene, including searchers and police officers, were “torn…
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Check It Out: Gucci Mane Levels Woman with Haymaker
Was it that serious? Davey D wants to know what, if anything, came of Gucci Mane slugging a former partner in rhyme, Mac Breezy, at a party. Gucci’s doing short time for a parole violation and, on with a much-anticipated album set for release, Davey D of Hip Hop and Politics wonders what all of…
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Obama and Jintao: The Newest Planeteers
Greenhouse gases aren’t tight. Even less tight? The fact that the US and China have the dubious honor of being the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gases. Figuring there won’t be much to govern and control if the earth goes kaput, Presidents Obama and Hu Jintao have decide to take action in climate change. From…
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Calls For Job Growth Grow Louder
With unemployment among blacks topping 15 percent nationally and 20 percent in several states, the N.A.A.C.P. is reportedly ready to put pressure on President Obama to do more to create jobs. The N.A.A.C.P. plans to join the A.F.L.-C.I.O. along with the National Council of La Raza to make the case that the president’s $787 billion…
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Rakim's Back
No Ceilings, the most recent mixtape from New Orleans’ Lil Wayne is hip-hop du jour. It’s a standard within the genre embraced by a mass culture that tips its hat to topics profane and pedestrian, with a decidedly dangerous-sounding bent. Lil Wayne’s innovative wordplay and youthful defiance places him center amid real-life drama and connects…
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Is the USDA Still the Last Plantation?
That man who sits atop the federal government organizational chart is clear evidence of the enormous progress the country has made in regard to its troubled history with race relations. But it has very quickly become a dominant meme of the Obama age to debate the extent to which the stupendous changes at the top…
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Color Clash?
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Heather Ellis: Not That Innocent
People that know me will tell you I love a good media-manufactured brouhaha as much as the next media meatball, but the tempest behind the Heather Ellis case, with calls for you to take a day off your good job and go march or whatever, has come to a boil today. The Internet is outraged…
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The Supreme Court Doesn't Care About Native American People
Redskins is just not a nice name and while the Supreme Court justice might concede as much in private, they’ve decided that the Native American activists’ suit to have the Washington Redskins change their name is not worth their time. From the Washington Post: “The court without comment refused to get involved in the long-running…
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How ‘Precious’ Is Like Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’
It is the focus of a heated media controversy—a wrenching tale of horrific abuse by a father figure, teenage sex and out-of-wedlock birth, the pathological breakdown of social norms in an oft-neglected corner of society. And I’m going to take a pass on this one. Gotcha, didn’t I? You thought I was referring to Precious:…