Monthly Archives: November 2009

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November 30, 2009 at 9:00am

By Summer M.

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Topics: American Values, Fairytales, Family, Love, Media, Pop Culture, Poverty

Captain Save-a-Negro: A Primer

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I swear I saw commercials for the movie The Blind Side more times than I caught the ads of those cats singing the free credit report jingle. (F-R-E-E that spells free/credit report dot com, baby…) Environmentalists could learn a lot from Hollywood; that place recycles scenarios more often than a tree [...]

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November 29, 2009 at 2:03pm

By anonymous

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Facts and Fictions

Like Che printed t-shirts and Darfur doo-rags, tragedy has become fashionable. It isn’t rare that I find someone trading stories (with great excitement) about a friend of a friend who was in Indonesia during the tsunami, or meet an artist eager to proclaim that he lost everything in New Orleans. Surely, a life of meaning [...]

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November 27, 2009 at 9:13am

By Fallon

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Mykwain Gainey’s Loo$e Change

On occasion, I like most people dream of meeting famous black people you know the Halle Berry(s) and Denzel Washington(s) of the world. However, the likelihood of Oprah knocking on my door screaming at the top of her Ms. Sophia’s lungs, “You are one of my favorite things and I want you to meet my [...]

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November 26, 2009 at 6:00pm

By Supernerd

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The Silent Depression:Young, Black and Jobless

On November 24, 2009 in an article form the Washington Post, it has been reported that joblessness for 16 – to – 24 year old black men has reached proportions similar to the Great Depression; i.e., 34.5 percent of black men between the ages of 16 – to – 24 are jobless, which is [...]

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November 25, 2009 at 2:37am

By Jonathan

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Topics: American Values, History

The Lies History Tells Part 1: Happy Thanksgiving?

I am starting a three-week series based on the lies that I was told in grade school. It recently occurred to me that a lot of the history that I was taught was not only wrong, but the truth was skewed for very specific purposes. I can remember learning about the Black Panthers in elementary [...]

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November 24, 2009 at 4:51am

By edward

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Sometimes I Feel Like A Fatherless Child

“Daddy come back!” “Daddy will you take me out for ice cream?” This is what one of my peers and I heard as we left the St. Martin de Porres House of Hope Saturday morning. Normally this question wouldn’t have disturbed me. However, the question was directed at two college sophomores who have yet [...]

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Weekly News Roundup

November 23, 2009 at 12:20pm

By Leigh

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November 16, 2009 – November 22, 2009

Decade after Decatur, Racial Discipline Gap Widens John O’Connor, Associated Press, November 22, 2009 Lawmakers from Minority Districts Appointing Few to Service Academies Brian Witte, Associated Press, November 22, 2009 School Board Member: Race a Legitimate Issue in Curriculum Battle Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel, November 21, 2009 FBI reopens 1962 slaying of Macon black youth [...]

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November 23, 2009 at 9:00am

By Summer M.

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Topics: Beyonce, Media

Upgrade U: What We Can Learn From Beyonce

Beyonce’s Thanksgiving special airs this week, and I know there are plenty of folks hating. Had I not seen the light, I would’ve been one of them. A few weeks ago, I was checking my Facebook account, and a friend’s status message read that she intended to write a negative (feminist) critique of Beyonce. Of [...]

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November 22, 2009 at 12:24am

By tamara

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Topics: Violence Against Women

Chris Brown and Rihanna: A Woman’s Worth

This situation is tragic. There is no other way to describe it. It is tragic. As with other tragedies, there are lessons to be learned. And no, i am not of the mind that it is somehow more tragic because it happened to Chris Brown and Rihanna. Whenever i hear or read that “if it [...]

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November 20, 2009 at 9:54am

By Fallon

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Topics: black feminism, Gender, Girls, Humor, Patriarchy, Precious, Violence Against Women, Women

We Are All like Precious’ Mother, Mary, Gotta Have a Man!!

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s my best friend flying away at supersonic speeds into the distant sunset with her new boyfriend. As she soars hugging her newfound beau who she only met a week ago on eHarmony, does she look back to see her best friends staring at her in utter disbelief? No. [...]

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