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Cee-Lo Green's New Song Ignites the Web
Superstar alternative soul man Cee-Lo Green has done it again. In 2007 he had the entire planet bopping to his hit “Crazy,” as one half of the international sensation Gnarls Barkley, with his other half Danger Mouse. He’s done it again, igniting the Web with a track entitled, “F@#$ You.” It’s hot, catchy, clean and…
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It's Too Soon to Write Off Obama
Is it over for President Obama? Yes, says Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal, arguing that the president can’t salvage his presidency and he is doomed to fall into Jimmy Carter-like irrelevance. Not so fast, says David Rothkopf at our sister publication Foreign Policy. He argues that it is simply too soon to write off…
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The Emmys: The Twitterverse Speaks
What would happen if you ignored watching the Emmys on television and simply let people on Twitter guide you through the three-hour program? Well, you’d get this: @SPBVIP: As I tweeted a few months ago: Since 2000 Afr-Amers won 10 lead or supporting Tonys; 7 Oscars … & no Emmys in regular lead or support…
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Cuccinelli: Virginia Can Regulate Abortion Clinics
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who is anti-abortion, has issued a legal opinion allowing greater restrictions on abortion clinics. His legal opinion is drawing criticism from providers who say it could cause some of the facilities to close. Pro-choice advocates are saying that the attorney general’s actions are an attempt to circumvent the General…
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Single-Minded: True Blood's Tara, the BBF
No one is as beautifully broken on HBO’s True Blood as Tara. The girl was so insanely screwed up from jump that, as I watched the first two seasons, it made me sad that she represents 50 percent of the black population on a series set in the backwoods of Louisiana (the other 50 percent,…
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James J. Kilpatrick's Racist Past Not Easily Forgotten
James J. Kilpatrick, the conservative commentator known to television viewers as a commentator on the “Point/Counterpoint” segment of “60 Minutes,” or as a panelist on the old “Agronsky and Co.,” died in Washington Sunday at age 89, his family said on Monday. To some African Americans, however, the Virginian’s support of Massive Resistance to school…
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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]…