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The Black Movies of 2025 Everyone Should Add to Their Must-Watch List
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A Pill a Day to Keep HIV Away?
What if there was a pill you could take once a day to keep from contracting HIV? That idea may not be as crazy as it sounds. In countries around the world, scientific studies involving thousands of participants are looking at whether a person who does not have HIV can take a once-a-day, anti-retroviral pill…
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To Love B. Scott
In a culture where many black men typically succumb to the hyper-masculine roles assigned to them at birth, you wouldn’t expect many to be not-so-closeted fans of a gay man who concludes his commentary with the phrase, “double kisses.” Yet gender-bending Internet personality B. Scott, with his lengthy eyelashes, high cheekbones and long hair (usually…
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Move It, Lose It, Learn It
Fat, fatter, fattest. That’s the harshly accurate description of many kids today. Childhood obesity rates have doubled over the past decade, and kids have gone from being fat to severely obese. Overall, African-American children are statistically the fattest compared with their white and Latino counterparts. And fat kids mean unhealthy kids. Obese children and adolescents…
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Inglourious Masterpiece
In the final scene of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s latest bromide of violence, high camp and revisionist history, one character looks at his bloody handiwork and giddily remarks: “I think this might be my masterpiece!” No doubt that tongue in cheek rejoinder comes directly from Tarantino himself, who has to live up to the critical…
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The Economics of Happiness
Oxford Analytica’s has unveiled a new report that sheds light on the psychological impact unemployment has on the state of your mental health. The report can be best summed with: If you have no job, you’re miserable. This just in: The sky still is blue. I know such a revelation seems pretty obvious. The same…
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Jay-Z to Do 9/11 Benefit Concert; Probably Won't Hug It Out with Rush Limbaugh
Shawn Carter is lending a helping hand while letting people know he is, indeed, dropping another album. From MTV: As MTV News reported on Monday, Jay-Z will be headlining New York’s Madison Square Garden on September 11, the eighth anniversary of the tragic events of the World Trade Center attacks (and the release date of…
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Words to Govern By
When Sen. Ted Kennedy eulogized Robert Kennedy in June 1968, he also offered what may be the most fitting coda for his own remarkable public life. Of RFK, he declared, My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent…
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The First Black Prez
For hard-core jazz fans, Barack Obama is the second African-American president. Tenor saxophonist Lester Young was the first. He didn’t win 365 electoral votes, but he won the vote of Billie Holiday, who nicknamed him The President aka Prez. Young introduced a dynamic new approach to the saxophone; his playing had a leaner tone and…
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Someone at Microsoft Engages in Hi-Jinks
Something to chuckle about from the BBC: Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man. The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm’s US website. But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man’s…
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Checking Yourself at the Checkout Line
It seems more and more people are employing the broke guide to shopping in their daily routines. It’s been estimated that was much as 25 percent of shoppers’ trips to the store result in at least one item ditched. By comparison, in the recession of the early 1990s it was 15 to 20 percent. That…