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Rare Air: Former NC State Star to Be Jordan's HOF Presenter
Not Dean Smith. Not Phil Jackson. Not David Falk. When Michael Jordan is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, his presenter will be former North Carolina State star David Thompson. From ESPN: Michael Jordan has chosen David Thompson, another high flyer from North Carolina, to present him, while Charles Barkley and Isiah Thomas also…
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A Worthwhile Conversation
Hill Harper’s newly released book on relationships got a step up on recent competition simply by displaying the actor-author’s adorable face on the cover. (Nothing against Steve Harvey’s looks.) But it offers more than that. Like the ideal mate, The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships has as much good…
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Obama's Back to School Speech Focuses on "You"
About 50 million students around the country returned to school this morning. President Barack Obama addressed a few hundred of them, from kindergarten through 12th grade, at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. The address, paired with a roundtable with students and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, was designed to kick off the school year with…
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UPDATE: Our Brains Have Been Washed!
The president has spoken. We feel Socialized, ready to bring in a multiracial American Reich destined to last 1,000 years. Did the Twitternets feel the same? Click the link to find out. But beware! The socialist gamma rays could turn Newt Gingrich. Obama’s school speech reaction!
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H-U-B-B-U-B: The President's Remarks to Students
The remarks as provided by the White House: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could join us today. I know that for many of you, today is the…
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Tyler Perry and His Colored Girls – Somebody Stop This Guy
Does the Tyler Perry trademark ever take a rest? With Lionsgate Film in his corner, Perry has decided to adapt and direct Ntozake Shange‘s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The classic 1975 choreopoem about black women that started at a woman’s bar in Berkeley and landed on Broadway. …
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Trouble Brews as Drought Devastates Kenya
Kenya is suffering one of its worse droughts in a decade and despite the warnings of aid workers, little has been done in the wake of a dryness that is killing not only the land, but its people as well. Many fingers are pointed toward the Kenyan government which has been accused of allowing infighting…
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The Upside of Van Jones' Downfall
Conceding nothing to Glenn Beck, the resignation of Van Jones as White House special adviser on green jobs, enterprise and innovation may actually turn out to be the best and greenest decision of all. Never mind that Beck and other right-wing blowhards such as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh will continue to go head-hunting for…
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The Kennedy Strategy
As Congress returns from summer recess and President Obama prepares to address the nation on health care, it’s worth remembering that it’s been barely two weeks since the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. We’d known that Sen. Kennedy was terminally ill since 2008, when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. But his death still…