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My Dad, The Man
Much of what I’ve published in the past four years was written while sitting in the Bakery Square Panera Bread. There was a time when I lived three blocks away, so it was a convenient drive to make when writing from home got too monotonous. And, even after moving across town to share a place with my now-wife,…
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Empire Recap: The Lyons, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Last week a single rose prompted Cookie to order a hit. Even Suge Knight told her to rethink her life choices. That rose is still causing trouble. Lucious invites Cookie to dinner at a fancy restaurant, takes her by the hand and leads her to … a family gathering to announce his engagement. What? This…
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Middleweight Boxer Jermain Taylor Arrested on Charge of Pulling Gun on Family at MLK Parade
Middleweight boxer Jermain Taylor was arrested at a Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Little Rock, Ark., Monday after he allegedly put a gun to a man’s head and threatened to shoot, the Associated Press reports. During the parade, Taylor reportedly wielded his championship belt for everyone to see and then knelt down to give it…
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In Memoriam: A Tribute to the Ones We Lost in 2014
As we wind down 2014 and look ahead to 2015, we want to take a moment to remember the people who passed on this year. From celebrities to athletes to the list of unarmed black men whose deaths launched a movement, the lives of the people included here mattered, and we will never forget the…
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The Midterms: For Older White Voters, the End of the Progressive Obama Era?
GOP Base Still a Shrinking Portion of Electorate “Democrats got hammered in Tuesday’s election. The conventional wisdom is that this was a referendum on President Obama and a repudiation of his policies,” William H. Frye, a demographer and senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, wrote Wednesday for salon.com. “Yet, to…
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Fla. Man Running for Local Office Posts Phony Obama Endorsement Letter to Facebook
Turns out that not everyone running for office is trying to distance himself from the president. An Orlando, Fla.-area construction-company owner who’s running for local office proudly boasted a letter of endorsement written by President Barack Obama and posted the letter on his Facebook page. There was only one problem: The president didn’t write the…
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Olympic Fencer Kamara James Dead at 29
Kamara James, an Olympic fencer from Queens, N.Y., has died in Modesto, Calif., USA Fencing reported Tuesday. The cause of the 29-year-old’s death, which occurred Sept. 20, according to the Modesto Bee, has not been announced. Just 10 years ago, at the age of 19, James became one of the youngest fencers to represent the USA at…
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In Georgia’s Midterms, the Cold War Against Black Voters Gets Hot
There are plenty of clichéd metaphors we apply to elections and warfare. Getting out the vote is the “ground war,” hotly contested states are “battleground states” and any campaign commercial in which candidates aren’t hugging each other is an “attack ad.” And there’s another cliché to add to the mix that’s never been more apparent…
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Lolo Jones: ‘I’m So Tired of Feeling Embarrassed’
Poor Lolo Jones can’t catch a break. Not only has Jones not lived up to the hype surrounding track and field and bobsledding, but she was also the first star to be booted this season from Dancing With the Stars. Monday, after her horrific cha-cha performance, Jones blamed a technical glitch that knocked her off-kilter.…