Sole Survivor Explains How He’s Alive After Air India Crash
The Very Short List of Black Celebs Speaking Out Against Trump’s ICE Raids
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband ‘Target of Political Assasination’ but It Gets Worse
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Obama's Isms Schism
There is a hadith in which The Prophet said, “…you should not be extremists, but try to be near perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded …” And Ice Cube once called it a good day when “mama cooked the breakfast with no hog.” With his singular ability to communicate across…
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Chanequa Campbell Cries "Race"
When Chanequa Campbell cried racism after Harvard refused to let her graduate behind a drug deal gone bad, I knew she had failed. Cries of racism have lost their potency, thank God. Her peers won’t ride for her, and small wonder why. The days when you could just print up a t-shirt slogan and start…
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Stuntin's NOT a Habit: Consumer Marketing in the Current Economy
Being seen dripping with jewels on a yacht in the south of France is not the new Black. Darryl Cobbin, veteran marketing executive writes today on the HUFFINGTON POST that this new global economy has created a seismic shiftin consumer sensibilities. The former middle class; upwardly-mobile people who previously maxed out credit cards in pursuit…
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Video: Hammer Pants Dance
A flashmob clad in gold Hammer pants comes flying into an LA clothing store and surrounded the innocent hipster bystanders. This is what ensued…
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Oh No, I Might Have To Work Now!
It seems that the days where wealthy parents could slide their kids $200,000 for a down payment on a home or drop a thousand or three in the bank every month to cover their rent are on hold. Trust-fund babies, or trustafarians as some people call them, have help expedited gentrification in many cities across…
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Harlem: New Squash Epicenter?
So much for hoop dreams. For some young men and women in Harlem, the program StreetSquash has promoted achievement through squash’s athletic rigor and a focus on academic excellence. With affiliate groups in the Bronx, Philadelphia and Boston, the National Urban Squash and Education Association is focused on a commitment to urban youth. As one…
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First Gitmo Detainee Arrives in States for Trial
Facing 286 felony counts against him, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani arrived in federal court this morning to stand trial for a rash of bombings in Tanzania and Kenya stretching back a decade. Ghailani, who was previously in the custody of New York Metropolitan Correction Center—a holding tank for numerous accused terrorists—had been at Guantanamo since 2006.…
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Could Alabama Elect a Black Governor?
Last Saturday in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham, a 41-year-old Congressman who went to Harvard and then graduated from Harvard Law School, announced that he was running for governor of Alabama in 2010. There were red, white and blue signs with his name on them and a diverse crowd of about 500 cheered on the…
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Dreading Your Family Reunion?
I should have known our efforts at family reunions were in trouble when members of the New York chapter of my family decided to boycott the reunion over a minor family dispute the year we planned it in New York. As the host family that year, we kept having to explain to visiting relatives why…
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Cool, Refreshing Legislation for Philip Morris
Indulge me in a thought experiment. Pretend that drinking something called “lethalcoffee” has been found to cause cancer. There are five or six kinds of gross-flavored lethalcoffees that hardly anyone drinks, like chocolate, cherry, banana, and vanilla. But there’s one flavor, mint, that 30 percent of all lethalcoffee drinkers are hooked on. And there’s one…