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EX-NBA Baller Nate Robinson Doesn’t Want To Die, But His Struggle To Live Is A Cautionary Tale to Black Men
Former NBA star is fighting for his life - and ringing an alarm we should hear in our own
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‘Larger Than Life’ Georgetown Basketball Coach John Thompson Dead at 78
Friends and family of Hall of Famer John Thompson, the architect of the Georgetown Hoyas’ gilded age, say the legendary coach has died, reports WJLA TV. Thompson’s cause of death is unknown at this time. He was 78 years old. The first Black coach to win an NCAA championship, the 6’10” Thompson was a larger-than-life…
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Damn, Y'all. Vince Carter Is Really Done
In a past life, I hated Vince Carter. My girlfriend at the time did a horrendous job of hiding her high school crush on the recently drafted, North Carolina product. So as he spent his rookie season defying gravity and performing the type of aerial stunts typically reserved for a trapeze artist, I stewed with…
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Ben Carson Visits Miami Public Housing and Gets Trapped in ‘the Sunken Place’
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was only on his third stop of a two-day Miami visit when he got trapped in the elevator, but I’d like to think that the elevator was actually in “the sunken place.” According to the Miami Herald, “Carson, Miami-Dade County Public Housing Director Michael Liu and five other…