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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…
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Is There a Next Page for ‘Ebony’?
Four years ago, at the funeral of Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson, then-Sen. Barack Obama remembered the man who almost single-handedly built the economic foundation for black-audience periodicals. Through his magazines, Obama told the more than 2,000 mourners, “he shared countless news, large and small, that had been ignored for so long.” Tavis Smiley…
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Rare Air: Former NC State Star to Be Jordan's HOF Presenter
Not Dean Smith. Not Phil Jackson. Not David Falk. When Michael Jordan is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, his presenter will be former North Carolina State star David Thompson. From ESPN: Michael Jordan has chosen David Thompson, another high flyer from North Carolina, to present him, while Charles Barkley and Isiah Thomas also…
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Who Will Run New Orleans?
For the last several years, New Orleans has been working to bill itself to the movie industry as the “Hollywood South.” Yet with a wide-open mayor’s race to replace the term-limited and oft-investigated C. Ray Nagin on the horizon for next February, New Orleans might be bringing an unwanted side effect from its California courtship:…
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Our Kind of Vacation
As the first family heads to Martha’s Vineyard for their first first-family vacation, the island is still all aflutter over cultural critic Touré’s New York magazine feature characterizing black Vineyarders as a bunch of self-segregating snobs. Blacks who make the island off the coast of Cape Cod their summer home have not felt this misunderstood…
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But My Best Friend Is Black!
During the presidential campaign, then-Sen. Joe Biden made an off-the-cuff observation that his rival, then-Sen. Barack Obama was “… clean …” and “… articulate …” Then Don Imus slurred the Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team. Then the managers of the Valley Swim Club banned black campers from swimming at their pool. And let us not…
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So You Think You Want to Dance?
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov As reality TV shows go, So You Think You Can Dance is the unlikeliest of hits: No one’s throwing temper tantrums on the Fox show, no one’s serving up diva ‘tude or pursuing world domination through Machiavellian manipulations. There are…
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Is It Time To Sue or Face Facts?
Trina Thompson earned her information technology from Monroe College in April. With an IT degree, Thompson expected to quickly find a job. She didn’t so now she’s filed suit against the school, telling the New York Post, “They have not tried hard enough to help me.” Thompson claims her school didn’t provide her with the…