culture
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Wanting to Avoid the One-Time, Bashir Avoids Uganda Conference
From Al Jazeera: “Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, has decided not to travel to Uganda for an economic conference after he was warned he could be arrested on war crimes charges, officials in Kampala have said. “The understanding is that he will not be coming,” James Mugume, the permanent secretary of Uganda’s foreign affairs ministry, said on Friday. The…
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VIDEO: Pat Buchanan Reminds Us "White Men Built This Country"
Next week, Maddow will be sitting down with some Black Israelites from Philly who plan to call her the devil.
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The Best Year in Jazz Ever
Ask 30 avid jazz fans, the type who cherish their vinyl LPs, to name their 30 favorite recordings and the following discs will show up on a lot of the lists. Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and two by…
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A Song for Lady Day
Life is ultimately mysterious and indifferent about whom it gives much and from whom it expects a measure equal to its gifts. Those gifts are passed out with the same careless precision as handfuls of chicken feed hurled into a high wind. Billie Holiday was obviously given much more than most, and her talent revealed…
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Does Gitmo Have Room for One More?
From Black Spin: “Don’t you hate it when some fool tweaks raw racial sores and the First Amendment just to get attention? Allow me to introduce you to the latest, and one of the most offensive perpetrators: Michael Hunt. Hunt, a black man, walked into a Los Angeles City Council meeting and refused to remove…
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VIDEO: Barbara Boxer Makes Some Black Folks Mad
Come on, Babs. You should have at least thrown in a few more groups to throw off the scent.
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VIDEO: A Glimpse of Afro Punk
These cats are kinda serious.
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Steve McNair's Wife to Oversee Estate
From ESPN: “The widow of slain former NFL quarterback Steve McNair says in court documents that her husband left no will and a judge in Nashville has ruled that she will oversee his estate. Davidson County Probate Judge Randy Kennedy granted Mechelle McNair’s request to administer the estate and gave her 60 days to file…
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Tiger's Turnberry?
Tiger Woods is better than you think he is, or let me put this another way: if you think Tiger Woods is one of the best golfers of all time then you are selling him short. That sentence doesn’t need the gentle qualifier, “one of.” Shortly before Woods’ injury last year, Sal Johnson of Golf…
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VIDEO: Michael Jackson Pepsi Accident Footage
People have often joked about this incident and when you hear the story it is kind of funny. A famous singer’s Jheri curl going up in flames. That’s sketch-worthy. When you see the footage, it’s decidedly less funny. The Pepsi commercial