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Kanye West Disses Barack Obama: ‘You Can’t Effect Change’
Kanye West can probably forget about being invited to the White House anytime soon. During an interview with Power 106 FM in Los Angeles, West was asked what he thought about the president and had a few unkind words. He replied, “You can’t effect change from inside the White House like that … you gotta…
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A Leading Black Think Tank Is Barely Scraping By
Joint Center’s Interim President Working for Free “The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, esteemed as America’s foremost think tank for Black political and economic research, is struggling with financial problems so serious that its political arm has been gutted and its interim president is working for free,” Hazel Trice Edney reported for her…
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Jason Whitlock, Greg Howard, And Speaking Around "Company"
Because of some mechanical issues, a Megabus trip last week from D.C. to Pittsburgh — a journey that’s usually six hours long — ended up lasting close to nine. Aside from spending an hour cursing my decision not to just drive to D.C. and back, I spent a good part of that trip reading Greg…
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VSB Presents: The #Blackestname in America Tournament, Round 1 Day 2
[If you haven’t done so already, download and print out the bracket to play along and see how well you do!] Welcome to day 2 of VSB’s Blackest Name in America tournament!! *handclaps and loud applause* When I see some of the names of the people in our beloved tournament here, the hook from the…
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Kanye Talked and People Listened at the Cannes Lions Creativity Conference
Kanye West’s honeymoon is over and he’s back to business. The newly married rapper appeared at the Cannes Lions Creativity Conference on Tuesday in a seminar titled, “Technology, Culture and Consumer Adoption: Learning to Read the Cultural Landscape,” to talk about his wedding to Kim Kardashian, technology and being Kanye, also known as being a…
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Seriously, Though. F*ck Robin Thicke
Look. I would be lying to you if I told you that the sight of a White man publicly debasing himself at the heels of a Black woman doesn’t put a little rooter in my tooter (I don’t even know what that means), but this shit has got to stop. If you haven’t heard, Robin…
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Black Parents, Gay Sons and Redefining Masculinity
“As a gay black man, I find myself at the top of the list of people to hate,” wrote Michael Arceneaux for The Root five years ago. “That’s a hard fact to contend with at 25, let alone at 11. The accepted notions of how a black man should look and act are confining and…
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Writer-Director John Singleton: ‘Negritude’ Sells
John Singleton, who received two Oscar nominations for Boyz N the Hood and is currently working on a Tupac Shakur biopic, spoke at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Saturday about diversity. “Don’t be afraid to be black,” he told a predominantly black, packed audience at a session moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell at…
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A Story About My Dad
It was a Monday. I was 11 years old, a guard on the St. Barts Bruins JV basketball team. We were a week away from our first game of the season, and our hot-to-death new uniforms — reversible tanks with our last names on the back and long cotton shorts with the school’s logo on…
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Report: Stalker Claiming to Be Sanaa Lathan’s Husband Arrested in Her Home
It looks like actress Sanaa Lathan may have a stalker on her hands. On June 6 a man identified as Shawn Caples, 28, was caught sleeping in Lathan’s laundry room, according to TMZ. The site reports that contractors working in the star’s home caught Caples. Once questioned, Caples claimed to be Lathan’s husband and he was…