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VIDEO: Pat Buchanan Reminds Us "White Men Built This Country"
Next week, Maddow will be sitting down with some Black Israelites from Philly who plan to call her the devil.
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Obama and His Wishful Preaching
I love President Obama. And the no-excuses speech he delivered to the NAACP convention yesterday was radical and amazing. I have to admit: I refrained from grinning whenever Obama broke into “black preacher talk”. Everyone knows the man was born into a white family in Hawaii and black preacher talk wasn’t an everyday occurrence, but…
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The Obama Doctrine: Racism’s Real; Deal With It
Everybody wants to know how, if at all, we should think about race in the Obama era. Well, President Barack Obama himself offered an answer in his speech to the NAACP last night. The address—his first explicitly on race as president—put a coda on his remarkable Philadelphia campaign speech, in which he addressed questions raised…
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The Best Year in Jazz Ever
Ask 30 avid jazz fans, the type who cherish their vinyl LPs, to name their 30 favorite recordings and the following discs will show up on a lot of the lists. Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and two by…
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VIDEO: Barbara Boxer Makes Some Black Folks Mad
Come on, Babs. You should have at least thrown in a few more groups to throw off the scent.
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Steve McNair's Wife to Oversee Estate
From ESPN: “The widow of slain former NFL quarterback Steve McNair says in court documents that her husband left no will and a judge in Nashville has ruled that she will oversee his estate. Davidson County Probate Judge Randy Kennedy granted Mechelle McNair’s request to administer the estate and gave her 60 days to file…
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Can Suze Orman's Advice Save You?
In 2007 Suze Orman warned us that a financial meltdown was on the horizon. Not many took heed to her warning, and as a result those who spent far too long living beyond their means found themselves hit the hardest when the economy went sour. Indeed, many Americans who played a little too much with…
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CNN: Black Men and Mental Health
Let me set the record straight. I am an advocate for spiritual and mental well-being. I will do anything in my power to help Black men look at themselves, recognize the spiritual and emotional potential, and create healthier lifestyles. Ask ANY of my friends. Last night CNN’S Black in America 2 touched on a very…
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Tiger's Turnberry?
Tiger Woods is better than you think he is, or let me put this another way: if you think Tiger Woods is one of the best golfers of all time then you are selling him short. That sentence doesn’t need the gentle qualifier, “one of.” Shortly before Woods’ injury last year, Sal Johnson of Golf…
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…And So Began the Health Care War…
From The AP: “House Democrats are preparing to advance legislation that would deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to remake the nation’s costly health care system and cover some 50 million uninsured. On the heels of the Senate health committee’s approval Wednesday of a plan to revamp U.S. health care, three House committees with jurisdiction…