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Hail to the Duke
Quite a musical day, no? Oh, well. Peace to Edward Kennedy Ellington.
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Steveland Morris
Apparently this fellow is quite popular in the Motor City and, with a few lucky breaks, could have quite the future.
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Auto-Tune and Heartbreak
Somewhere, T-Pain is cackling to himself on a mountain of one hundred dollar bills.
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What The $#%! Is Juice?! Part II
Adrian Hopkins first brought this travesty to The Buzz’s attention over the weekend. According to Fast Company, justice will be done.
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Forming a Q: AM Edition
If all the world’s a stage and if we are but players, does his meteoric rise make Barck Hussein Obama the biggest star in Black American history?
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Cherry Pickin'
The New York Times: It’s certainly nice to go into tonight’s speech with some momentum. The Washington Post: So what happens at the end of the emergency? The Los Angeles Times: That sound, friends, was the good people at MoveOn.org having a collective stroke. BBC: Having a controlling interest in a private company within your country…
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Mardi Gras Party Chez Ms. Dupre
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on MARDI GRAS NOIR with The Root’s Chandra Thomas. ***** The racial divide had always been clear along the Mardi Gras parade route in Ms. Dupre’s Uptown New Orleans neighborhood: White people stood on one side of Napoleon Avenue, and black people stood on the other. These racial boundaries…
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Pay Attention
Because if you don’t, the people who aren’t quite mad enough to put on weekend warrior camo will try to find clever ways to circumvent your voting rights. Voters, Beware
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Woman of the Earth
Majora Carter, a warrior for the earth bringing grass back to Fort Apache. Click the link for an education.