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Erykah Badu Gets Probation for Stripping
Soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu is still dealing with the fallout from her controversial music video “Window Seat,” in which the singer disrobed at the site where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Badu has paid a $500 fine and will serve six months’ probation for stripping off her clothes to film the music…
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James J. Kilpatrick, Conservative Commentator, Dies
One of the leaders of the Massive Resistance movmement in Virginia has passed away. James J. Kilpatrick, the conservative commentator and former editor of The Richmond News Leader, has died after a long illness. Kilpatrick railed against the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. He used his column and the newspaper to champion…
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The Blogosphere Reacts to Laura Schlessinger's N-venture
She has lost her damn mind! —Facebook user I love is that she did it in the context of telling this woman that she shouldn’t be so sensitive about race — that if she couldn’t take a “few jokes” or racial slurs then she shouldn’t have entered an interracial marriage — I always knew that…
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How A Non-Gangsta Enjoys Gangsta Rap
Every morning for the past month, as I start getting dressed, I have sung (or is it rapped?) the hook to a song entitled, “BMF (Blowin’ Money Fast)” by rapper, Rick Ross. It goes: I think I’m Big Meech, Larry Hoover Getting work Hallejuah One nation Under God real [expletive] gettin money from the [expetive]…
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Black Conservatives Bar Press from National Gathering
A throng of black conservatives is meeting at the National Press Club today and, somewhat ironically, barring the press from their proceedings. More than a dozen right-wing African American leaders—some of them more infamous than famous—are set to speak at the event, including Alan Keyes, Star Parker, Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation,…
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Your Take: Guns and Divisive Rhetoric to Honor Lincoln and King?
A disturbing magazine cover recently crossed my desk, announcing in big, bold print that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the NRA will be hosting a “Restoring Honor” rally in August. It’s being held at the Lincoln Memorial, a place that honors America’s most revered president — the one who saved our union, freed African slaves…
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Black Power: Brooklyn Represents?
Once upon a time, the ultimate concentration of black political power in Brooklyn lay in Weeksville, a strategically planned village of free black property holders that began in 1838 in what is now Bedford-Stuyvesant. “Weeksville was created to be a political base,” says Jennifer Scott, director of research at the Weeksville Heritage Center. The settlement…
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Why the Media Aren't Giving Obama Credit
Even Journalists Raise Questions After Latest Victory “I’ve been scratching my head over this for the past year: Does President Obama get credit for the things he does right?” media writer Howard Kurtz wrote for the Washington Post on Friday. “We all know about the things he does wrong, because the media have made that…
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Mel Gibson's Mouth: A Lethal Weapon
It seems that America’s former favorite heartthrob and actor just can’t keep his demons to himself. You may remember when he got pulled over for drunk driving some years back, he made anti-Semitic remarks to the highway patrol officer. It seems this time, the mother of his eighth child, Oksana Grigorieva, is the object of…
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Dancing Through Tough Times
You can find thrilling black dance companies in every part of the country, a fantastic improvement over the situation 50 years ago when dancers of color could hardly find a professional troupe to join. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Dance Theatre of Harlem started the revolution: The first was the triumph of…