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Frank Sinatra, Other Anti-Racist Icons Who Were Down For Black Folks
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Lost in Translation: Hillary Ethered Student Due to Poor Translation
From The Guardian: During an appearance at a university in the Democratic Republic of Congo, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on an impromptu tirade following a question about her husband. However, it seems the query may have been relayed to Clinton incorrectly. According to CNN, a student in the audience wanted insight into…
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Our President is Like a Lucky Black Cartoon Cat
A take on Ferguson’s clever thoughts from Ta-Nehisi Coates: Via Fallows, Niall Ferguson has taken to calling Obama, “Felix the Prez.” I’ll allow the Harvard professor to explain why: “President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat. One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s, Felix was not only black. He was also…
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Captive on Continental
Horror stories from the airlines are getting worse and worse. Just last week a Continental jet encountered severe turbulence and over twenty passengers were injured. But I don’t think it gets any crazier than Continental Flight 2816. Forty-seven Minneapolis-bound passengers were grounded ten hours because of severe weather and never allowed to leave the plane. …
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US Urges Justice for Congolese Women
From Al Jazeera: The US secretary of state has said that young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo must press the government to take action against corruption and sexual violence in the war-torn east of the country. “You are the ones who have to speak out,” Hillary Clinton told university students in Kinshasa, the…
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VIDEO: Hillary Justifies Her Thug in Q&A Session
As you know, The Buzz enjoys a bit of snark at the SOS’s expense, but in this video below, this response to a knuckleheaded question has just the right amount of indignation without, in our opinion, overreacting. She set an ignorant inquisitor straight. Some people are label this video as one in which Secretary Clinton’s…
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88
From the Washington Post: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, a member of a political dynasty who devoted her life to improving the welfare of the mentally disabled by founding the Special Olympics, died Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., after a series of strokes. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and…
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The Self-Hate Hustle
Accusations of ethnic disloyalty have long been a feature of the debate between liberal and conservative Jews over the actions of Israel. In the blogosphere, conservative Jews have a term for a group of prominent liberal Jewish bloggers who have been critical of Israel’s behavior in the region: the “Juicebox Mafia.” Two weeks ago, Jamie…
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Black Don't Crack? Think Again.
Black Don’t Crack. But apparently black skin is not completely impervious to the sun. Or so I learned the hard way. I went to see the dermatologist to have a “mole” on my face checked. No big deal; I’d had it a long time. But over the past six months it had changed a bit,…
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The 2010 NBA Free Agency Fallacy
In major markets throughout the NBA, teams and the media that follow them are talking about next summer like it’s the second coming, and not entirely without reason. Next summer the following superstars can be unrestricted free agents: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, and Amare Stoudemire. In addition, several all-stars including Ray…
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Want A Job? Pick Up Mandarin … or Pin Down An Inmate
As previously mentioned, though the unemployment rate beat expectations by dropping a slight margin there are still plenty out there looking for work. For a number of job seekers, though, hope has faded to the point where many have put an indefinite hold on their respective searches. There are those, however, who are still out…