Why the Black Internet Believes Grammys Just Threw Shade at Beyoncé
Proof The ‘Absent Black Father’ Was a Big Lie
Jay-Z’s Daughter Rumi Carter Throws Up the Roc Nation Sign On Stage, Sparking Insane Illuminati Theories
Black Musicians Who Were Targeted By The FBI and Other Law Enforcement
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The US Drug War Jails Fewer Blacks—But Rages On
The Sentencing Project has crunched Bureau of Prisons numbers and found some relatively good news, finally: a significant drop in the number of blacks locked up for drug offenses. Between 1999 and 2005, the number of black drug offenders in state prisons plunged 21.6 percent, by about 30,000 people. In a countering, negative trend, white…
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Quincy Brown to Al B. Sure: Dear Papa
Quincy Brown wrote an open letter to his father singer/songwriter/radio personality Al B. Sure that’s getting a lot of traction on the internet. You might recall back in the day, I noted that on Brown’s episode of MTV’s “Sweet 16,” he was claiming mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs as his father. Now he’s airing out his…
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89-Year-Old Nazi Guard Almost Deported
Let me know what you think about THIS: In 2002 Ukraine-born John Demjanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and was awaiting deportation to Germany. His crime? Not revealing he was a Nazi guard at a concentration camp where over 30,000 Jews were murdered. Demjanjuk denied the charge and said he was kidnapped by Germans…
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No Such Thing as Too Much Information
These days, everyone from rappers to senators have a Twitter profile. Even dead celebrities have made their way to Twitter. I’m not entirely sure how 2Pac or Aaliyah discovered the site from beyond, but I’m happy to read about them. At least impersonating users like notbillclinton are more upfront. Twitter is, of course, the microblogging…
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Why Don’t You Follow Me? Authors on Twitter
Twitter is the most recent Web phenomenon to prove that even the stupidest of ideas can be transformed into marketing brilliance. Many who left MySpace for Facebook have now graduated to Twitter, the new Internet time-waster of choice. Twitter is a free service that allows users to tell what they are doing in 140 characters.…
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The Man With the Plan
He’s got a plan, and don’t you forget it. One of the more curious things about President Obama’s big economic speech yesterday, and this is admittedly cynical observation, is why the president decided to so dramatically change the subject of the public conversation from his handling of pirates back to his handling of the economy.…
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It’s Tax Day, Did You File for EITC?
I should have known better. At a table full of relatives for Easter dinner, I found myself actually getting into a conversation about the economy, big bad Wall Street, the evil government, and of course, clueless journalists. As a financial journalist, I get a front-row seat to see how frustrating the economy can be. I’ve…
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Forever Frugal?
By the end of college I learned some valuable life lessons. One of the most important is that coupons are your friend; the grocery store is your frenemy. Another would be the benefits of peanut butter and ground meat when your wallet seems like it’s becoming bulimic. And thanks to my student loans, I’ve become…
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Bay Bay's (and everyone else's) Kids On Your Night Out
Maybe it’s my age—aren’t old people supposed to be grumpy?—or maybe it’s the economy. Maybe both. But whatever the reason, it seems to me there are a lot more people bringing babies and toddlers to places they shouldn’t be. (And, just to nip some of the outrage I know is coming in the bud: I…
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The Black Pack, Again: EBONY Profiles White House Rainbow Coalition
Pop, politics and race collide in this month’s issue of EBONY magazine, which features a remarkable photograph of a dozen top-level, African American advisers (most of whom are women!) to President Barack Obama. It was never certain that the first black president would have a particularly black administration (though the campaign’s reservoir of young black…