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I Love To Paint, But I Worry About Making My Wife Struggle
Previously, I wrote an entry detailing the growing number of artists struggling as a result of many of the odd jobs used to supplement their income while they pursued their passion being eliminated. The reality is as much as one can love their craft you have to eat. So can there be a balance between…
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Was MJ Bleaching His Skin?
From CNN: The first search of Michael Jackson’s bedroom a day after his death found marijuana, skin-bleaching and hair-growing ointments, anti-insomnia pills and empty bottles of several anti-anxiety drugs, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. A substance initially suspected to be tar heroin proved not to be a narcotic, according to a source with knowledge…
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How Kennedy Helped Ron Brown and Roger Wilkins
From Black America Web: …what many people don’t know is that Kennedy helped a number of African-Americans professionally and politically. “Ron Brown never would have been commerce secretary if it had not been for Ted Kennedy,” said Michael K. Frisby, a former national politics reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe. “He…
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Teddy the Radical
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is being lionized as an extraordinary legislator, a champion of civil rights, health care and education, and the caring patriarch of America’s royal family. He was all that. For African Americans, however, he was even more. Ted Kennedy was a white liberal who believed in black power, black political power, and…
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Take Me Back to New Orleans
Ever since the levees broke, I’d been meaning to get back there. But things kept coming up. So it is when you’re doing the avoidance dance. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with New Orleans, my ancestral home. I finally made it back to NOLA two summers ago, driving past my grandparents’ long-abandoned house. Literally…
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Black and Coaching in the Ivy League
Most football coaches are brimming with optimism this time of year, but few with as much Tom Williams, the first black head football coach at Yale University. It has little to do with his expectations about the annual grudge match with Harvard later this year. Williams has broken through one of the most insidious glass…
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She Had Me at 'Monster's Ball'
ABOUT ROBIN GIVHAN I grew up in Detroit, Michigan, a city that is much maligned but will always be close to my heart. (Have a local give you a tour. There’s much to love.) I was always fascinated by the East Coast – probably from watching too many “I Love Lucy” re-runs as a child.…
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Crazy Love
ABOUT SOPHIA NELSON I am a recovering lawyer and a typical Gen-Xer female—I have officially entered middle age (the 40s) and I have embraced it (well, as much as anyone can). I threw myself a huge 40th birthday bash two years ago and danced on the tables with 100 of my closest friends, sorority sisters…
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Law & Disorder
ABOUT JADA F. SMITH After officially deciding to pursue my life’s dream of hosting MTV’s “Total Request Live” in the 10th grade, I created a master plan to major in broadcast journalism at Howard University and eventually move to New York City and interview all the fabulous people in Times Square. Seven years later I’m…