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To Designers, Minority Models Don't Make Cents
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Naomi Campbell has ignited a controversy. But this time, it doesn’t involve someone’s billionaire husband or an accusation that the model I love to call Nay-Nay smashed someone’s skull with her BlackBerry. Nope. The last of the supermodels is again publicly calling out the fashion industry for its…
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Human Observer
In the foreword for his new collection of columns, Leonard Pitts, Jr. writes that he finds it difficult to describe what his twice-weekly column for the “Miami Herald” is about. The best he can offer is a line that he once saw in promotional material that said his column is about “the politics of the…
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Michael Jackson's Birthday Bash
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” A big Brooklyn salute to the King of Pop. Director Spike Lee throws a block party in Brooklyn, N.Y., in honor of what would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. A little rain was not…
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'The Simpsons' Hit Angolan TV
Fresh off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Angola last week, the television show “The Simpsons” appears to be paying the less-than-democratic, oil-rich southern African nation a visit. Via McClatchy’s always-interesting “Somewhere in Africa” blog: America’s most dysfunctional cartoon family (OK, second most) is coming to TV screens in Angola, via the South African…
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Frizzy: A Nicer Word than 'Nappy'
From the NY Times: ANTHONY DICKEY’S much anticipated salon, Hair Rules New York — an earthy-industrial space with high ceilings and oversize windows — opened last month in Hell’s Kitchen. The salon, which Mr. Dickey operates with his business partner, Kara Young Georgiopoulos, specializes in curly, frizzy and otherwise texture-challenged hair. It is the kind…
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The Internet Can End Your Job Search
In a sure sign of the times, forty-five percent of employers reported in a recent CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to research job candidates. That’s quite a leap from the 22 percent who reported the same the previous year. And just so we’re clear that this is a lasting trend another 11…
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It Be Like That, Plax
Robert Littal of Black Sports Online feels as though Plaxico Burress is catching a raw deal, and outlines ten facts that are germane in the incident and why he feels the two years in jail seems too harsh a penalty. While I think he makes a few fair points, I have to disagree with Mr.…
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Karrine's Vixen Manual
If you’re unfamiliar with gossip of the rap underworld and don’t read tabloid coverage of Bill Maher, you probably don’t even know who Karrine Steffans is, even though she’s sold three popular books and appeared on Oprah, Bill O’Reilly, and Geraldo. Her first two best-selling publications were juicy hip-hop tell-alls, but with her latest book,…
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Somali Forces Retake Town
From Al Jazeera: Pro-government forces in Somalia have recaptured the southwestern town of Luq, which had been controlled by al-Shabab, officials say. The town, claimed on Wednesday, is the second taken by government troops as Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Somalia’s president, seeks to crush opposition fighters. Colonel Mohamed Osman Weli told the AFP news agency that…
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BREAKING: Plaxico Burress Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
From the AP: NEW YORK — Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and agreed to a two-year prison term for accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub. The ex-wide receiver pleaded guilty Thursday morning to one count of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, a lesser charge than he…