Whoopi Goldberg’s Comments On “The View” About Iran Sparked Online Outrage
Why Black Folks Who Did Not Know Juneteenth Was A Thing Until Biden Said So …Need Their Black Card Revoked
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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…
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Donte' Stallworth Screwed Up and Did the Right Thing
Originally posted on ESPN: Count me among those who seriously questioned whether “justice” was properly meted out to Donte’ Stallworth, the NFL wide receiver who spent only 24 days in jail after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter. Let me restate the obvious for the thousandth time: Michael Vick got almost two years in federal prison…
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Not Too Late for an Obama ‘Staycation’
Not everyone’s going to be happy to see the first black first family tossing the Frisbee around next week. In the last month, the president’s critics, particularly on the right, have, in their customarily hypocritical, player-hating fashion, been holding him to a higher standard than past presidents: No other president would be expected to cheerfully…
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The Color of Health Care
This article was original posted on The American Prospect: Last week, over 8,000 people lined up to be treated by medical volunteers at the Forum stadium in Inglewood, California. It was a rare moment of visibility for the hidden faces of the health-care debate — the 46 million Americans without health insurance, who have largely…
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Spike Lee and His Love for Musicals and Black Artists
Spike Lee’s Passing Strange opens today in New York City. And if you know anything about what’s what in the advancement of black expression in the American arts [or want to know] then you should know everything about Passing Strange. The hit Broadway musical about a young black man determined to look beyond his imposed…
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The Block is Hot in Mogadishu: Dozens Killed in Fight Between Rebels and Army
Somali rebels and the government they are trying to remove have taken their bloody battle to the streets of Mogadishu. From Al Jazeera: At least 24 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu after Islamist rebels fought Somali government and African Union troops for a second day. Residents hid in their homes as mortar…
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The Way of The Gun
I’m sad to live in a world where a rapper can’t rap about guns without an outcry and black men can’t hold guns in movie posters but gun nuts can go strapped up to town hall meetings. There’s something really wrong with that. I’m all for the second amendment, all for “open carry.” But I…
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Michael Jackson Movie to be Released in October
Can’t get enough MJ? Well, September 27th, tickets will go on sale for “Michael Jackson: This Is It”, a film documenting Jackson’s final three months of rehearsal prep scheduled for a two-week release on October 27th. From CNN: “Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, and genius…
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The NFL’s Reality Check
Like nearly all NFL fans, I’m eagerly awaiting opening kickoff on Sept. 10. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans will launch the regular season in what figures to be a good, old-fashioned battle, where you can feel the hits in your living room and hear the impact echo into the next day. Until then. unlike…