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Did Burris Save the Public Option?
When Illinois Sen. Roland Burris took office almost a year ago, he already appeared to be a lame-duck politician. After being appointed by the shady Gov. Rod Blagojevich in late December, Burris found himself shrouded in a haze of suspicion and controversy. With such a troubled introduction to national politics, it seemed as if “Blago’s…
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Ring 'Em Up (Sort Of): Italy Convicts 23 for CIA Renditions
Italy went squad body on the preeminent squad bodiers. In a historic case, an Italian judge has convicted a CIA base chief, an Air Force colonel and 21 American CIA operatives with the kidnapping and rendition of a muslim cleric in 2003. Judge Oscar Magi handed an eight-year sentence to Robert Seldon Lady, a former…
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One of Your Friends Might Be a Blackface Barack Obama for Halloween. Should You Get Upset?
A recent Clutch post, “ANTM Jumps on the Blackface Bandwagon,” scrutinized Top Model’s decision to stage a blackface photoshoot, especially in light of the recent outrage over the use of the controversial “art form” in French Vogue. Every year, people dress up like the current president for Halloween. Often, in ways that are less than…
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World Series: Can Pedro Bury His Yankee Ghosts?
Unless you have grown jaded by ESPN’s treatment of baseball which places all teams in the northeast corridor on one level and the other 26 teams in some pseudo-minor league, then this is an easy World Series to like. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies have many compelling story lines, and the two teams…
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Why No One Talks Back to Cathy Hughes
If you’ve tuned in to black radio in the past few months, chances are you’ve heard “Reality Radio,” a series of announcements in which radio pioneer Cathy Hughes asks the black community to fight a new law in Congress that she claims would “murder black-owned radio.” Her definition of homicide? Performance Rights Act (HR 848),…
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When Will Black Greeks Stop Hazing to Death?
In the final part of this special 3-part series on Black Greek Letter Organization hazing, author Lawrence C. Ross Jr. on why it may be a case of life or death, for both the pledges and the organizations themselves. Part 1 of this series is here. Part 2 of this series is here. All black…
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BGLO Special Report: Dangerous Hazing Has Not Stopped
In Part 2 of a special 3-part series on Black Greek Letter Organization hazing, author Lawrence C. Ross Jr. on why dangerous “underground” pledging still exists, and if the BGLOs are effectual when it comes to dealing with the root causes. Part 1 of this series is here. The belief in physical violence as a…
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Special Report: ‘Underground’ Pledging vs. ‘Membership Intake Process’
In Part 1 of a special 3-part series on Black Greek Letter Organization hazing, author Lawrence C. Ross Jr. on the physical and mental hazing that has injured (and in some cases, killed) scores of college students for decades. Pledging. For most black fraternity and sorority members initiated before 1990, pledging is when they formed…
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Hell Yeah, There’s Still Slam-Banging Black Music
As a rule, black folk have not always been well-served by labeling, ’tis true. Labels have not always been our friends. Labels can get you hurt; labels can get you enslaved; labels can get you sterilized; labels can get you disowned, evicted, Tuskegee experimented; labels can get you misunderstood and miseducated. Still, not all labels…