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NBC Heroes Employee Says There's Too Much Diversity in Hollywood
Arturo R. Garcia, my new favorite blogger over at Racialicious has unearthed a doozy about the NBC series Heroes. Now before I put my spin on it or reveal the juicy, let me say I used to love Heroes. During the first two seasons I’d tune in like an addict. It was something about the…
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Black Conservative Doesn't Want Oprah to Interview Obama on Christmas
I ran across this provocative (I mean ridiculous) article entitled Oprah and Obama: A socialist Christmas. It was written by Republican African-American schoolteacher Lisa Carter over at Examiner. While Carter isn’t teaching America’s next generation, she’s busy spreading her anti-Obama venom and looking for members to join her down-with-Oprah crusade. Carter hates the idea that…
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Peru Apologizes for Mistreatment of Afro-Peruvians
It always makes me happy when states apologize for the institution of slavery and the mistreatment that accompanies it. I get especially inspired when faraway places, like Peru, apologizes for centuries of African-centered abuse. If you haven’t guessed by now the Peruvian government decided to apologize for the horrors endured by its Afro-Peruvian population. Several…
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Lincoln University Won't Let Overweight Students Graduate Without Fitness Course
Lincoln University, the historically black college in Pennsylvania, won’t let overweight students graduate unless they take a fitness course. I have officially heard it all. I would understand if the college encouraged overweight students to take the course, or offer the course as an elective, but mandatory? Come on. Diabetes and obesity is certainly an…
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Only the Super Negro Sells Movie Tix in Europe
Arturo R. Garcia over at Racialicious brought something juicy to my attention. He discovered the comedy Couples Retreat has opted for two promo posters. One for the American market, the other for the international market. Couples Retreat stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and funny guy Faizon Love. However, if you’re strolling the streets…
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Sarah Palin Says Newsweek Photo Is Sexist
Sarah Palin is angry about the cover photo of her in Newsweek. So she says. When she chose to pose for Runner’s World in workout gear, pigtails, bare legs and a mid-zipped red top she allegedly had no idea what she was doing, or, that some other news magazine would use the photo. Palin has…
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Anthony Sowell's Victims: Drug Addicted, Expendable and Murdered
I was looking through the photos of Anthony Sowell’s victims, and my heart dropped. More than half of them were described as women with histories of drug and/or alcohol abuse. Nancy Cobbs, Tonia Carmichael, Janice Webb, all dead, all with histories of drug addiction. I knew this, of course, but to revisit the information through…
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Brown Paper Bag: Blame Black Hollywood
I wanted to throw my sixty cents into the Root’s own Jada F. Smith’s “color in black Hollywood” conversation. As an active participant in the Hollywood game I’d like to bring attention to a few facts. Smith feels the Lee Daniel’s film Precious is a perfect template for the dysfunctional battle between good and evil,…
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John Muhammad is Dead. American Violence is Not.
John Allen Muhammad is dead. It’s been seven years since he and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, drove through Maryland, Virginia and D.C. shooting (and killing) innocent people. Last night at 9:11 p.m. Muhammed, who still claimed his “innocence,” was pronounced dead after lethal injection. And honestly, I don’t know what to feel. …