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Jack And Jill Politics: With No More Cotton To Pick What Will America Do With 36 Million Black People?

From Jack ‘n’ Jill Politics: It’s a provocative question that demands an answer. So far, America’s response has been some varying combination of broken promises, neglect and oppression sampled and remixed since Emancipation. There’s a pretty steady stream of black men from school to prison right now and that’s not going to help re-configure our [...]

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Friday December 24th, 2010 in , | No Comments »

The It Gets Better Video Of The Year Award Goes To…

AfricanoBoi! What can we say? His It’s Gets Better video is exactly what the doctor ordered. And it’s perfect for all those wailers of gloom and doom who’ve painted LGBT kids to be more fragile than antique Waterford crystal and who are just waiting to slit their wrists at the first hearing of “you fag.” [...]

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Friday December 24th, 2010 in , , , , | 5 Comments »

Mitrice Richardson’s Mother Wants Remains Tested Further For Cause Of Death

With the help of a forensic anthropologist, Latice Sutton, the mother of Mitrice Richardson, may find out the answer to her daughters mysterious disappearance and death.  According to the NBC LA Web site, Sutton held a press conference on Monday requesting officials to exhume her daughter’s body for further testing to determine cause of death. [...]

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Friday December 24th, 2010 in , , , | 7 Comments »

Uppity Negro: A House Still Divided: 150 Years Since The March To The Civil War

From Uppity Negro: On December 20, this country more or less quietly marked the sesquicentennial anniversary of the day South Carolina drafted secession papers and formally seceded from the United States of America in 1860.  Their secession was ratified on December 24, four days later.  At issue for them was the nebulous idea of states’ [...]

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Thursday December 23rd, 2010 in , , , , | 10 Comments »

Eddie Long: The Real Reason He Agreed To Mediation Before Going To Trial

“I have never in my life portrayed myself as a perfect man. But I am not the man that’s being portrayed on the television. That’s not me. That is not me” ~ Bishop Eddie Long A couple of weeks ago headlines blared that Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church had agreed to [...]

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Wednesday December 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , | 7 Comments »

White Supremacist Boycott Aimed At Marvel Studios Over Black Actor Casting In Thor

And wouldn’t you know these are some good old boy friends of Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins. Thanks to Right Wing Watch diggin’ up a snapshot of Perkins making a speech at a Council Of Conservative Citizen’s event—-these are the folks boycotting Thor over the black actor reportedly cast in a respectable European blood lineage [...]

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Friday December 17th, 2010 in , , , | 7 Comments »

Not Gay Just Hot: Top 5 Ghetto (African American) Names

Harsh. And every bit of it is the truth.  Yea, we’ll be featuring homeboy on the regular cause he’s preachin’  the good gospel and funny as hell.  The brotha puts a new twist to Public Service Announcement. We just hope some blacks get to hear it and feel it.  They need to is all we’re [...]

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Wednesday December 15th, 2010 in , | 2 Comments »