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Blaxploitation's Baadasssss History
Forty years ago this month, Melvin Van Peebles’ celluloid classic, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, shook up the world of cinema, much as a brash young pugilist originally known as Cassius Clay had done in the boxing ring some seven years earlier. Van Peebles’ independently produced film merged European modernism and the avant-garde with the urgent…
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Cee Lo Has Meltdown at Coachella
Funk superstar Cee Lo Green is in the news for the wrong reason. Fresh from our “Celebrities behaving badly” folder, Grammy Award-winning musician Cee Lo Green reportedly went off on promoters during his set at the Coachella Music Festival, a three-day music festival held in California. Lyndsey Parker reported that on the first day of…
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Chimp Emailer Apologizes but Keeps GOP Post
Marilyn Davenport, the Southern California GOP official who sent an email depicting President Obama and his parents as chimpanzees, has finally issued an apology. But despite calls for her resignation by Republican County Chair Scott Baugh, former state Chair Michael J. Schroeder and a chorus of civil rights activists, Davenport defiantly vowed to remain in office. “To my fellow Americans…
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LeBron's Mom: Valet Sues for $15K
Following her recent arrest at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach last Thursday, Gloria James, mother of Miami Heat player LeBron James, is now being sued by Rockfeller Sorel, the valet parking attendant she allegedly assaulted at the posh Fontainebleu hotel. Sorel is seeking $15,000 in damages for negligence, assault and battery due to the…
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Homophobic Slurs Are Always Meant to Offend
A few years ago, during an awkward attempt at father-son bonding, I found out my father was a homophobe. It was right after the Academy Awards, and there was a lot of discussion about the film Brokeback Mountain being snubbed for best picture. My father and I were watching television together, and he said to…
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Popular Music: Revealing Our Obnoxious Nature?
We live in an increasingly “me, me, me” society, and the lyrics in today’s most popular music can’t help reflecting it, according to the authors of a recently released study on music and culture. MSNBC’s Mellissa Dahl reports that the study’s authors used a text-analysis program to examine song lyrics for the 10 most popular…
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Hate Crime or Vandalism? A California Village Struggles for the Right Answer
In late January, Oprah Winfrey gushed about San Luis Obispo, which is on the central-California coast. The billionaire television host called the city “the happiest place in America” during a show broadcast from the historic mission town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since then the nearby village of Arroyo Grande has basked in…
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ASNE to Help Editors Reach Out to 'New America'
Now that it has revealed that the number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors plans to enlist non-media companies to brief news executives on appealing to an increasingly brown America. “ASNE will be a leader at keeping diversity at…
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The Price of Choosing Jails Over Schools
As federal, state and local governments across the nation slash their budgets to close looming shortfalls, there is one clear winner in the budget battles: correctional systems, which cost the nation nearly $70 billion annually. During the last two decades, funding for prisons eclipsed spending for higher education sixfold. The NAACP is looking to reverse…
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'The Book of Mormon': 'South Park' on Broadway?
With The Book of Mormon taking home 9 Tony Awards this year, we’re pulling this review of the Broadway musical from our archives. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys who created South Park, like to boast that they are equal-opportunity offenders. Which is true. Over the past 10 years that their potty-mouthed, thumb-in-your-eye animated…