Drama Between Brian McKnight and Estranged Sons Explained
The White Principal Who Expelled a Black Student After Racist Incident Is in Big Trouble
White Man Throws Rocks at a Black Father and His 10-Year-Old Daughter as They Fish…Guess What He Tells Them on Video
Celebrities You Didn’t Know Are LGBTQ+
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Conversations with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A CONVERSATION WITH RUBY DEE: Looking back at 50 years of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ BUSH, THE LINCOLN BEDROOM AND ME: A White House tour from former President Bush; how his presidency compared to Lincoln’s. LOOKING FOR LINCOLN: How “The Great Emancipator” used his political instincts and powerful oratory to co-opt his rivals TOUR OF ECHOES: Recalling the…
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Where There's Smoke…
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Official Sheds Light on Possible Obama Moves in Africa
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson is spilling some of the president’s beans regarding his African policies in the future. In Washington Monday, Carson told the African American Unity Caucus that Obama’s African policy would focus on four key issues. According to Voice of America, those issues are: 1.Promoting and strengthening democratic…
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Video: United We Serve
The First Family calls on Americans to lend a hand. Do you agree that “a summer of service initiative” helps to kickstart an economic recovery?
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Iran Rounding Up Foreign Nationals in Connection with Protests
The haps on the caps from CNN: -The Iranian government has arrested several foreign nationals, some holding British passports in connection with the post-elections unrest -Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ezhei told reporters that some with links to the West and Israel had planned bombings ahead of the June 12 presidential election -Mohseni-Ezhei said to reporters of…
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If Not You, Mr. President, Then Who?
Collectively, we prefer that our expectations be met on our schedule and not a second later. That explains why a new Washington Post/ABC News poll reveals that barely half of Americans still believe that President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus measure will boost the economy. While it’s interesting to read how Americans overall are struggling to…
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Spike's Woman Problem
Cinematically speaking, it’s one of those “oh, that scene” moments: suffocating heat, an ice cube tray, Rosie Perez’s naked, heaving breasts. An exceedingly tight close-up of Rosie Perez’s naked, heaving breasts. And you’ve got Spike Lee—clearly enjoying his auteur/actor privileges—rubbing an ice cube over said breasts, paying crooning homage to “the right nipple” and “the…
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Who's on Tap in the NBA?
Last summer, Brandon Jennings looked like a pioneer who would change the way that young men become professional basketball players. Now, he looks like just another teenager with NBA dreams. Jennings, a 19-year-old from Compton, Calif., had signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Arizona. He wasn’t planning on receiving a degree,…
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Going In-Sanford in South Carolina
Republican South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, infamous stimulus naysayer and presidential aspirant, has been missing since Thursday. Let’s just keep it one hundred and call it what it is: Sanford got “touched in the head,” as the old folks used to say. But is there anything wrong with that? Bob McAlister, chief of staff to…
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My House, Your Kids: Whose Mama Rules?
A little while ago, I was at a party where children were invited. It was held on the rooftop of a beachfront building, with a staircase to an observation deck. At one point, a six year old was scampering up and down the stairs—unsupervised, as his mother was enjoying drinks with her colleagues at the…