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Black Activists Clash Over Clueless White Folks And The Occupy Movement

  A black woman settles down for the long haul at Occupy Wall Street in NYC  (photo courtesy of  The Grio) We live in cities that are divided by racism and segregation. It would be utopian to believe that the political, social and economic issues that often lead to the isolation of Black and brown communities [...]

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Thursday November 3rd, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Dan Choi Gets Racial: Aims Obama Rage At MLK

  After President Kennedy was assassinated, “Jacqueline Kennedy knelt prayerfully with her children against the late President’s coffin. ‘Look at her,’ the federal agents heard MLK say, “sucking him off one last time.’” [16] It’s hard to fathom such meanness unless it is placed in the context of MLK’s fierce disappointment in JFK … for [...]

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Monday September 5th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments »

Ebony And Ivory: For Gay Interracial Couples Racism Won’t Go Away After Saying “I Do”

    We just watched an intriguing Youtube vid in which David Wilson, one of the plaintiffs from the case which led to Massachusetts’ gay marriage victory and who is black, is interviewed about his experience of being arrested many years ago.  This was after calling for assistance with his partner (from a previous long-term relationship) [...]

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Friday August 5th, 2011 in , , , , , | 6 Comments »

Nobody Knows: The Untold Story Of Black Mormons (Documentary)

Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons is a documentary about African American Latter-day Saints. Watch trailer and profile on the doc here.

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Thursday June 30th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Protecting Black Youth In A Post Obama White Progressive Liberal Pro Equality World

Santa Monica High School plays down race-based hate crime in which a black student was accosted with a noose rope and taunted as “slave for sale” by his perpetrators.

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Wednesday June 29th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Black folks Weigh In On New York’s Marriage Equality Victory

A candid peek at heterosexual African American response to gay marriage victory in New York taken from the African American blog The Grio. The results are quite interesting.

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Monday June 27th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Prophet Chris Rock On ‘Black People Vs Nig#@z: African Americans And Class Division In The Post Obama Era

Opening with the video performance of comedian Chris Rock this post is a collection of powerful excerpts of various writing by African American professors, authors, thinkers and activists on their thoughts on the issues that have emerged out of class division in black America.

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Friday June 24th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »