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
Internet Is Divided Over Toddler’s Perfect, Sexy Catwalk
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Hillary Clinton Sets You Straight
Me and those Boyz in the Shop were just wondering if Bill Clinton’s diplomatic mission was going to cause any dischord in the Clinton abode or diminish Hillary’s significant credentials. While it may be true that you don’t mess will Bill, please recognize that Mama don’t take no mess and you can’t pop crazy at…
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Katherine Jackson Objects to Estate Executor's Plans with AEG Live
From CNN: The dispute between Michael Jackson’s mother and the men Jackson chose to run his estate after his death threatens to delay or derail plans for a documentary of the pop singer’s last days. Katherine Jackson’s lawyers objected in court Monday to the deals made by the Michael Jackson estate’s special administrators with concert…
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Remind Them of the Devil They Know—Private Insurance
In the thick of August, President Obama has a very specific challenge: to yank the health care reform conversation up out of the weeds and back into the broad, easily understandable consensus he tapped during the campaign—that the current system is a disastrous failure that grows more expensive and less effective every year we continue…
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Big Daddy Kane: On Tour and No Half-Steppin'
Big Daddy Kane performed at Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Saturday. And yes, Mister “King Asiatic Nobody Else” was still bringing lyrics and Asiatic flow and the courage to dance like a true golden rapper. I must admit I wasn’t able to check him out. Don’t worry. I was grilled by a few friends about…
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Have Mercy!
In “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man,” Henry Louis Gates writes, that many black Americans think that “the soft drink Tropical Fantasy is manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan and contains a special ingredient designed to sterilize black men.” He then demolishes this and other conspiracy theories while recalling America’s troubled racial history,…
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Torture Prosecutions May Target Low-Level Offenders
From Adam Serwer for American Prospect: By now, everyone’s heard that the Justice Department is apparently considering the Abu Ghraib strategy for dealing with torture as a legal matter—prosecuting only those low-level operators who went beyond the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines detailing how much torture was legal. The LA Times article quotes Human Rights…
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Mentally Ill Offenders Burden Juvenile System
FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio — The teenager in the padded smock sat in his solitary confinement cell here in this state’s most secure juvenile prison and screamed obscenities. The youth, Donald, a 16-year-old, his eyes glassy from lack of sleep and a daily regimen of mood stabilizers, was serving a minimum of six months for breaking…
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Swine Flu Prepares to Make a Comeback
From the Washington Post: As the first influenza pandemic in 41 years has spread during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter over the past few months, the United States and other northern countries have been racing to prepare for a second wave of swine flu virus. At the same time, international health authorities have become increasingly alarmed…
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Lucky Number 70: Tiger Wins at Bridgestone
From Golf.com: There were all kinds of delicious implications had Padraig Harrington hung on to defeat Tiger Woods at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday, and the pundits were salivating. As Woods sat out the second half of 2008, Harrington stole his mantle and won the British Open and PGA Championship. Not that the Irishman seemed…
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A Summer of Race Talk Gone Bad
Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court justice. The Cambridge police dropped the charges against Professor Henry “Skip” Gates, an action supported by the mounting evidence that he was the subject of a false and racially charged arrest. But without a doubt, this has been a bad summer for conversations on race. It…