RFK Jr. and 14 Other Trump Picks Unprepared, Unfit for Their Big Government Jobs
Florida Karen Arrested After This Alleged Atrocious Act Toward Two Black Kids Blowing Bubbles
The Tea Behind Brit Eady Suing Bravo For $20 Million
Frank Sinatra, Other Anti-Racist Icons Who Were Down For Black Folks
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Not Too Late for an Obama ‘Staycation’
Not everyone’s going to be happy to see the first black first family tossing the Frisbee around next week. In the last month, the president’s critics, particularly on the right, have, in their customarily hypocritical, player-hating fashion, been holding him to a higher standard than past presidents: No other president would be expected to cheerfully…
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The Color of Health Care
This article was original posted on The American Prospect: Last week, over 8,000 people lined up to be treated by medical volunteers at the Forum stadium in Inglewood, California. It was a rare moment of visibility for the hidden faces of the health-care debate — the 46 million Americans without health insurance, who have largely…
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Spike Lee and His Love for Musicals and Black Artists
Spike Lee’s Passing Strange opens today in New York City. And if you know anything about what’s what in the advancement of black expression in the American arts [or want to know] then you should know everything about Passing Strange. The hit Broadway musical about a young black man determined to look beyond his imposed…
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The Block is Hot in Mogadishu: Dozens Killed in Fight Between Rebels and Army
Somali rebels and the government they are trying to remove have taken their bloody battle to the streets of Mogadishu. From Al Jazeera: At least 24 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu after Islamist rebels fought Somali government and African Union troops for a second day. Residents hid in their homes as mortar…
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The Way of The Gun
I’m sad to live in a world where a rapper can’t rap about guns without an outcry and black men can’t hold guns in movie posters but gun nuts can go strapped up to town hall meetings. There’s something really wrong with that. I’m all for the second amendment, all for “open carry.” But I…
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Michael Jackson Movie to be Released in October
Can’t get enough MJ? Well, September 27th, tickets will go on sale for “Michael Jackson: This Is It”, a film documenting Jackson’s final three months of rehearsal prep scheduled for a two-week release on October 27th. From CNN: “Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, and genius…
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The NFL’s Reality Check
Like nearly all NFL fans, I’m eagerly awaiting opening kickoff on Sept. 10. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans will launch the regular season in what figures to be a good, old-fashioned battle, where you can feel the hits in your living room and hear the impact echo into the next day. Until then. unlike…
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Is The End Near For The Black Middle Class?
Have we reached the end of the road for the black middle class? Barbara Ehrenreich, president of United Professionals, a non-partisan and non profit membership organization for white collar workers, argues such a position in a piece entitled, “The Economic Fallout Has Decimated the Black Middle Class.” In it Ehreneich along with Dedrick Muhammad, a…
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Are You Kidding? Bolt Breaks His Own World Record in 200M
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt continues to defy logic on what seems like a daily basis. From ESPN: BERLIN — Usain Bolt has set a world record of 19.19 seconds in the 200 meters at the world championships, adding to the gold he won in the 100. Exactly one year after taking gold at the Beijing Games…
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Ridge Claims He Was Pressured into Raising Terror Alerts
According to Paul Bedard of US News & World Report, former Department of Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has come clean about certain activities in the Bush White House. Ridge is deciding to spill some of the beans in his forthcoming tell-all ‘The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege…and How We Can Be Safe…