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What The $#%! Is Juice?! Part II
Adrian Hopkins first brought this travesty to The Buzz’s attention over the weekend. According to Fast Company, justice will be done.
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Forming a Q: AM Edition
If all the world’s a stage and if we are but players, does his meteoric rise make Barck Hussein Obama the biggest star in Black American history?
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Cherry Pickin'
The New York Times: It’s certainly nice to go into tonight’s speech with some momentum. The Washington Post: So what happens at the end of the emergency? The Los Angeles Times: That sound, friends, was the good people at MoveOn.org having a collective stroke. BBC: Having a controlling interest in a private company within your country…
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Negro-head Mountain Gets a Name Change
So here’s the story: During the 1850s Kentucky-born John Ballard moved to Agoura in the Santa Monica Mountains and set up house and trade. He and his family joined the 60 other black residents of Los Angeles County which, then, only had a population of 4000. Without question Ballard was a L.A. pioneer. He survived…
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The GOP’s Nutty Negro
Alan Keyes is a despicable lunatic. In an incredible screed now available on YouTube, Keyes denounces President Obama as a non-citizen, radical communist, abortionist, murderer bent on the destruction of the United States. He openly refuses to address President Obama by his title, instead referring to him as an “alleged usurper,” whose supposedly debatable claim…
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Mardi Gras Party Chez Ms. Dupre
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on MARDI GRAS NOIR with The Root’s Chandra Thomas. ***** The racial divide had always been clear along the Mardi Gras parade route in Ms. Dupre’s Uptown New Orleans neighborhood: White people stood on one side of Napoleon Avenue, and black people stood on the other. These racial boundaries…
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The Straight Talk Address
It is a good thing that the president’s address to Congress tonight is not billed as a State of the Union. We all know the sorry state of the union right now, and no one really wants to spend an hour gawking at it in prime time. For Barack Obama, tonight is about successfully communicating…
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Last week, I was a guest on NPR’s News and Notes, where the topic of conversation was how to address the President. A few days before that, a guest had repeatedly referred to him as “Barack,” and the show got a bunch of angry e-mails complaining that the guest in question—black, male, about the same…
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Pay Attention
Because if you don’t, the people who aren’t quite mad enough to put on weekend warrior camo will try to find clever ways to circumvent your voting rights. Voters, Beware
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Woman of the Earth
Majora Carter, a warrior for the earth bringing grass back to Fort Apache. Click the link for an education.