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Ambush! Did NPR blindside Ilyasah Shabazz?
Ilyasah Shabazz and a mural of her late father. The blogosphere and Black news sites were buzzing over Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X walking off NPR’s Tell Me More program after host...
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The Fine Art of Defriending A Fake Friend
Sometimes it’s not who you know. It’s who you don’t want to be bothered with anymore. I had to defriend someone today. I wish I regretted it. I don’t. What I wish is I’d done it sooner. I’d...
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What Sort of Leadership Do We Want From Our Leaders?
He's no Malcolm X, but could we handle Malcolm X today? President Obama went to the Congressional Black Caucus dinner and spoke about Black unemployment, Black problems and Black people. All the...
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Herman Cain: The Happiest House Negro
Herman Cain on the Wall Street occupation: The real Uncle Ruckus I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the...
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The Wrong Guys For the Right Reason?
The return of J&A's excellent adventure? Even tragedies can present opportunities and the killing of Trayvon Martin is no exception. The mainstream media took their sweet time in discovering what...
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Fake-Ass Black Militants and the White Conservatives That Love Them
Attention conservatives: THIS is what a brother who means business looks like. Having never been White or a conservative I can’t begin to understand what it is about the Pseudo New Black Panthers Party...
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The Mau-Mauing of the President
“Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.” — Mitt Romney As a public service here is a clarification for...
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Quentin Tarantino: Slave Profiteer
An exercise in good clean fun or repellent bad taste? Yeah, I thought I was over and done with Django Unchained, but apparently Django Unchained isn’t done with me yet. Tell me Quentin Tarantino has...
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The (Attempted) Rebooting of Malcolm X
We’re down to the last days of Black History Month and I haven’t focused very much on it. Like at all. I’m of the belief Black History Month has gone on past its sell-by date, but that’s not my...
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We Didn’t Start the Fire. They Did.
Baltimore riots 1968: The Past is Prologue (AP Photo) Regarding the protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray which have metamorphosed into throwing rocks at the police, looting...
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