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Reality TV Crashes in on President and Mrs. Obama’s First State Dinner
The U.S. Secret Service apologized Friday for letting reality TV wannabes Michaele and Tareq Salahi into the White House uninvited. With the help of facebook, the couple set a new low in social climbing; Michaele might not even really be a former Redskins cheerleader. Like Balloon Boy, the Salahis reportedly aimed for a reality TV gig…
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Beyoncé's Video Ho, er, Phone
After watching this leotard porno three times, I still don’t get it. But that’s assuming there’s anything to get in the first place. Still, I expected more from Lady Gaga—she of the fashion risks so risque that one can do nothing but use the adjectives artist and genius because really what else can you say…
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Heather Ellis: Not That Innocent
People that know me will tell you I love a good media-manufactured brouhaha as much as the next media meatball, but the tempest behind the Heather Ellis case, with calls for you to take a day off your good job and go march or whatever, has come to a boil today. The Internet is outraged…
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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…