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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]…
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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…