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Lee Daniels and Push take Sundance
Producer-director Lee Daniels [Monster’s Ball, The Woodsman] has hit the high mark with Push. A coming of age tale about Precious, a pregnant Harlem teen who navigates through incest, physical and emotional abuse, racism, self-hatred, illiteracy, HIV and obsesity [this is not a Disney flick]… Precious struggles until she stumbles upon a radical schoolteacher who…
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Good Luck With That, Mr. President
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are bracing for a fresh request from President Obama for another massive round of spending to shore up the nation’s faltering financial system, which could send the total price for the bailout soaring toward $1 trillion. So far, Congress has approved $700 billion for the financial system rescue. The first half…
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Praise for the Black Preacher
Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines has written a spot-on ode to the black preacher for The Daily Beast. While it’s easy to pooh-pooh the political machinations of high-profile clergy like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Raines focuses on the recently-lionzed Joseph Lowery. Though Ta-Nehisi Coates is moderating some heated back and forth…
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Turned Around
“The president of the United States is black. Literally, not figuratively, not in some socio-psycho-political sense. But dark skin, black wife, black children. His name is Barack Hussein Obama, and despite the fact that it was a worldwide spectacle witnessed by billions or that the oath of office was administered twice, there is still a…
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Don't Sass Me, Girl
Huffington Post better watch what they write about the youngest White House kid, Sasha Obama, from now on. Michelle Obama Watch (MOW), a blog dedicated to reporting on anything and everything about the new First Lady, jumped on Huffington Post’s case after it posted an article on it’s 23/6 site calling 7-year-old Sasha “sassy.” This…
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Paterson’s Power Play
David Paterson has spoken, and the junior senator from New York is… Kirsten Gillibrand. Wait, Kirsten who? “I recognize, for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you’ve heard my name,” Gillibrand said, after Paterson introduced her at a midday press conference. But, we’ll come back to that. But first, a word in defense…
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Good for the Goose…
I applaud the new management at The Source Magazine, who have announced that they are no longer running “booty ads” in thier publication—-but I wonder when Jet Magazine will stop running the “Booty of The Week” page. Oops, I’m sorry. It’s “beauty,” not booty. My bad. “It’s time the hip-hop industry stop advertising junk and…
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Malia and Sasha and the Dolls in their Honor
The makers of the Beanie Baby Dolls have unveiled their latest: Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia. A couple of bronze-skinned dolls who the company insists are not inspired by Barack and Michelle’s daughters, in name or resemblance. However, every Sarah, Kendra and Bobby, too, will be directing their parents through wind, sand and rain to…
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What is clean coal?
Politics is full of rich oxymorons: peacekeeping missiles, business ethics and Gov. Rod Blagojevich, just to name a few. Add to those one that is being used ever more frequently these days: clean coal. In America’s industrial history, coal has been both dirty and deadly, but it has been anything but clean. The use of…
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Managing The Bidens
The Bidens have a reputation for speaking out of turn, so mark my words: Jill Biden’s slip up on Oprah Winfrey’s couch—essentially sharing pillow talk with the enitre nation—is just the beginning of what will end of being four years of goofs and gaffs that will have President Obama scrambling to manage the Biden’s mouths.…