Steve Harvey’s Gorgeous $15 Million Once Owned by Tyler Perry
Why Diddy, Young Thug Attorney Brian Steel Is The White Johnnie Cochran
‘Sinners’ Releases in Black American Sign Language. Here’s What That Means
Why NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Tried To Play The Black Card…Literally
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Desperate Times, Desperate Crimes
Over the weekend I spoke to my sister, whose brother-in-law ran into some trouble in Atlanta. While leaving Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, he stopped to check on what appeared to be a group of people stuck on the side of the road. Before he could get out of his car to see if they needed any…
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Why Michael Steele Must Stay
Recently, I got a call from a Republican National Committee member from the Mid-Atlantic. She was worried that Michael Steele may be ousted from his RNC chairmanship before he ever gets started. She told me that she had received repeated calls from concerned committee members in Georgia, Tennessee and some Midwest states about Steele’s foibles and…
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Should This HBCU Be Saved?
The water is still on at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. At the very last minute, the 128-year-old historically black college came up with the money to pay its past due water bill of $64,887.32 in March. The historically black college was able to tap its proud history. The school reached out to alumni, churches…
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Monday's Headlines
SFC: Six Members of Family Die in Murder-Suicide WP: Surprise, Surprise: Israeli Military Finds No Misconduct in Gaza War FOX: White House Not Super Into Auto Industry Plan, Says ‘Try Again’ NYT: Cholestrol Drug May Cut Risk of Clots; Not a License to Eat More Bacon DS: Dallas Cop Apologizes to Moats (That Should Just…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
MONDAY MSNBC: Tips for Making College Affordable—Step One: Have Money AJE: Deadly Attack on Iraq Funeral (Yeah, It’s Reaaallly Time for Us to Go) CNN: Tyra Gets Her Robin Givens On, Talks to Oprah of Abuse WH: Obama Talks Green Jobs *Live* IS: Indiana Near Top of Black Homicide Rate; Buzz Didn’t Know Hoosiers Were…
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Obama Fans on Dakota Flooding Photo-Op
Did President Barack Obama leave his winter coat back home in Chicago? Saying, “I will continue to monitor the situation carefully,” in his weekly radio/web address, the president listed the comprehensive relief efforts set in motion this week by the federal, state, and local agencies charged with responding to natural disaster in and around Fargo,…
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Black History's Future
The future National Museum of African American History and Culture — as envisioned by competing teams of architects — will most likely include water features and music halls, evocations of slave ships and the African past, and vistas acknowledging its important, monumental neighbors. Yesterday, the Smithsonian Institution unveiled conceptual designs from six prominent architecture teams…
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Bye-Bye, Buckwheat!
I almost didn’t recognize Buckwheat when he walked into the breakfast room at the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes. Instead of the customary tangle of pigtails and ill-fitting T-shirt, his hair had been neatly trimmed, and he was dressed in a dark-blue suit, crisp white shirt and red striped tie. An American flag pin adorned his…
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Getting Outta There
There’s an interesting story making the rounds on the web this week: it’s about a graduate student in Northern California who applied for an internship at Cisco, got one, —and then went on Twitter to muse aloud that she wasn’t too cool on Cisco, hated the idea of commuting from the Bay Area to San…