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The University Of Missouri Football Boycott Is The Biggest American Protest Of The 21st Century
I wasn’t alive in the 50s and 60s and 70s when mass boycotts to protest racial injustice was more commonplace and more infused with our national cultural zeitgeist. I, like most of you, am very aware of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other, less publicized, boycotts (like the New Orleans citizens boycott). But, again, reading about the…
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Sorority Sisters Was Canceled Because It's A Shitty, Stupid, And Boring-Ass Show…And That's It
The “trainwreck” metaphor is used so often when discussing the appeal of certain reality television shows that it’s become cliche. But, being cliche doesn’t make it untrue. There aren’t many other ways to encapsulate how something so seemingly unwatchable can become watchable. At their best, The Real Basketball Wives of Hip-Hop manages to pull this off. They…