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A Moving Tribute to Michel du Cille
500 Urged to Shine a Light, Like Michel du Cille His photojournalist wife wanted friends and colleagues to know that “If he were here today, he’d be reminding us of the real story: 8,429 lives lost to Ebola and counting. “He’d be saying, ‘Remember the real story. Remember the thousands of people in Liberia, Sierra…
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Spike Lee on Selma Oscar Snub: ‘F–k ’Em’
Spike Lee isn’t mincing his words when it comes to Selma’s being snubbed by the Oscars. Lee simply stated “F—k ’em” during an interview with the Daily Beast. Like most people, Lee said he wasn’t surprised that the Oscars snubbed the film in categories for which everyone assumed it would have been nominated. Selma, which…
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Kendrick Lamar Said Something Dumb. Looks Like Rappers Are People, Too.
In a recent cover story for Billboard magazine, hip-hop wunderkind Kendrick Lamar spoke on Ferguson in comments that lit up the Blackosphere and caught the ire of self-imposed musical Civil Rights leader and idiot savant, Azealia Banks: “I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it’s already a situation, mentally, where it’s f—-ked…
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A Close Alliance Between MLK and Nelson Rockefeller Revealed
While much is being made about the new movie Selma’s depiction of the complicated relationship between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson at the summit of the civil rights movement, it was actually King’s friendship with a larger-than-life Republican governor that speaks to our more complicated political past. Looking past it,…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 503 Recap: Running Around Like Loose Chickens
Happy New Years, ladies and gents. Mona decided to give our weary spirits a week off from the trials and tribulations of the Young and the Couthless, but we have now returned – and fortunately for the rest of us, the cast of Love and Hip Hop NY have not adhered to the “New Year…
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David Duke Calls Nicki Minaj a ‘Degenerate’ for Her Role in Hip-Hop’s Downfall
David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Republican legislator, has his ear to the streets when it comes to hip-hop. During a recent broadcast of his online radio show, Duke had a few unpleasant words about Nicki Minaj and her comments about police brutality. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Minaj said that…
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President Lyndon Johnson’s Black Adviser: MLK and Voting-Rights Talk Were Welcomed
Clifford Alexander Says Film Gets One Thing Wrong Clifford L. Alexander Jr. says nobody from the news media has asked him, but that anyone who says that President Lyndon B. Johnson was at odds with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders over the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights…
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All of King’s Men: Actors Who Have Played MLK
David Oyelowo was recently nominated for a Golden Globes Award for his depiction of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, which opens nationwide Jan. 9. Directed by Ava DuVernay—who became the first black woman to earn a Globes nod for best director—the film has been buzzed about for years, and Oyelowo first…