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What Michael Jackson Told Us
According to CNN, he’s got major concert dates scheduled this summer in London. …Good to know. We’re still perfectly fine jamming on our Off The Wall, Thriller, and Bad records and concert tapes, but you know if we get a minute, we’ll definitely try to get around to checking that out.
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Chrihanna: The Saga Continues
The Los Angeles Times blog does a decent job of characterizing the alleged assault, but TMZ provides a rawness of detail that, if true, paints a much more alarming picture of the event. There are just so many unanswered questions in a delicate case and delicate issue. Here are The Buzz’s thoughts on what took place according to…
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Cherry Pickin': A Morning Media Round-Up
The Los Angeles Times: Proposition 8 Court Challenges Set Begin Today TBT: Whatever your thoughts, the manner in which either argument is made will clearly demark our progress as people. The San Francisco Chronicle: Homicide Victims Are Not Just Statistics TBT: Absolutely thought-provoking, heart-rending and probably a Buzz item all its own. The New York Times:…
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Well-Drawn Conclusions
Lil’ Obama A little Obama in a lab coat being scolded by little elephants in suits? If that’s not adorable, The Buzz doesn’t know what is. Raising the Dead The Buzz of course appreciates any jab to the zealots, but the idea that he’s somehow raising big government from over a decade ago pretty much…
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White Scholars and Black Studies
Dawn Turner Trice of the Los Angeles Times penned a timeley piece today about white scholars in Black Studies programs. Trice highlights how more and more students are walking into their Black Militancy 101 courses and finding a white professor at the helm. I don’t know about you, but while I was a graddie…
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How Sorry is the GOP?
In a few words, Rush Limbaugh has lost it. Not only did he show up at CPAC last weekend to rile up the conservative GOP base, but he challenged the president of the United States to a debate on his show. Is this guy for real? As for my friend and fellow Republican Michael Steele, who…
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Not Your Grandpa’s Dashiki
I was at Washington Dulles Airport, when an older white woman walked past me. She was wearing a fabulous blue linen suit, her hair swept into a clean silver bun. Had it not been for the handbag she was carrying, I might not have even noticed her among the crowd of other well-dressed white women…
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‘Dead White People’s Clothes’
It’s impossible to have a conversation about fashion in Africa—traditional or contemporary—without talking about the used-clothing industry and how damaging some people say it’s been. A whole industry has cropped up around apparel that’s been donated to charities located oceans away, imported throughout the African continent and then sold cheaply in African marketplaces. These low…
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Why I'm Sending My Tutu to Ghana
As I packed up my 3-year-old white satin tutu-styled dress, (à la Carrie Bradshaw) in a large packing box to donate, I had an image of a young girl in my head. She’d be strutting around town, in Ghana somewhere, in the same dress. She’d be as fierce as Naomi on a Paris runway, as…
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The Market Ate My College Fund
The primary concern of a parent is to feed, clothe, and shelter their children. But with the cost of tuition rising higher and financing options dropping faster than a bill collector’s patience, parents are learning they’re going to have to be a little savvier with their financial planning if they don’t want to be overburden…