Why Black Folks Who Did Not Know Juneteenth Was A Thing Until Biden Said So …Need Their Black Card Revoked
Unassuming “Mama Duke”Shocked The World On The America’s Got Talent Stage
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The Black Movies of 2025 Everyone Should Add to Their Must-Watch List
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Changing Minds: The Youngest of the Little Rock Nine Talks Justice
Carlotta Walls LaNier was just fourteen when she and eight other teenagers made history by integrating Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Her story of surviving hatred, hostility, and hardships to go on and become the first black girl to walk across the stage of Central High and receive a diploma is recounted in…
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Um, Thanks, McDonald's?
Since they have such a low profile in the Black community, McDonald’s has decided to go all ‘Black in America’ on us and launch 365Black.com. Replete with references to pictures of Black nuclear families and eager college grads clutching their diplomas in celebration, the site wants to be a focal point of Black web interaction.…
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Report Alleges Interrogators Used Gun, Drill to Threaten Terror Suspects
A 2004 report from the CIA inspector general details coercion tactics employed when the CIA really, really wanted information. From CNN: The gun and drill were used in two separate interrogation sessions against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, one of the sources said. Al-Nashiri is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, which left…
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Race Talk
When NASCAR visited the White House not long ago, I found myself wondering if the sport of race care driving is browning at all. We know there is some history there (and, as NASCAR chooses Hall of Fame inductees, seemingly intentional ommision of same) but whenever I turn it on TV, I see alot of…
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Who Wears Short Shorts?
The first lady stepped off Air Force One during the Obama family’s recent mini-vacation out West wearing a pair of moss-colored shorts. They were not the kind of knee-grazing Bermudas or pedal pushers that the fashion industry has long advocated as work-appropriate sportswear during the summer months. They were not tailored, nor were they masquerading…
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London's Weapon of Choice
LONDON—This city’s been long-known as a multicultural haven, a world capital boasting a bustling population of brown and black Brits. But there’s a sad truth here, one that’s been growing in intensity: Most of London’s young people of color are more likely than not to know someone whose life has been literally cut down by…
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Selling White Rage
American Enterprise Institute fellow Tim Mak, who writes for conservative columnist David Frum’s NewMarjority.com, explains the increasing rage in rightwing radio this way: Follow the money. In a post earlier this month, Mak argued the shrinking ad market for talk radio is driving conservative yappers like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh into ever-deepening vitriol. He…
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Judge Keller, You're So Cool It Hurts
What’s worse is that this is NOT unbelievable. An editorial from the NY Times on Judge Sharon Keller and her decision to close the county clerk’s office thus eliminating Michael Richard’s last chance for appeal. From the Times: Judge Sharon Keller, the Texas appellate court judge who closed the clerk’s office before a death row…
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How to Tell a Lie Well: Scream
Polls are coming at us fast and furious these days. But two stood out to me this week as proving, once again, all you have to do to make a lie into the truth is repeat it loud enough and often enough. First, the Pew Research Center for People & the Press’ weekly survey of…
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Did Usher's Ex-Wife Commit Plagiarism?
When Tameka Foster posted the blog entry “She’s Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl…” on The Huffington Post, both celebrities and regular women alike celebrated her blog message on Twitter and Facebook. Unbeknownst to them, while they were saluting Usher Raymond’s soon-to-be ex-wife’s essay on skin complexion, author Aisha Curry, who wrote the book ‘Pretty For…