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September 23, 2009 at 5:35pm

By Supernerd

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Topics: capitalism, Human Rights, Masculinity, Media, Men, Patriarchy, Politics, Power, The Post-colonial world, Violence

Human Rights in the Near East: Part 1

In 2004, humiliation, pain and torture were inflected on an Afghan grain merchant named Mohammed Shah Poor. The torturer was Sheikh Issa Al Nahyan, one of the 22 royal Sheikhs of the United Arab Emirate (U.A.E). At this point in the clip, I hope you have realized that Sheikh Issa’s accomplices are police officers. Moreover, I believe (call [...]

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September 9, 2009 at 2:38pm

By Summer M.

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Topics: black feminism, Books, capitalism, Film, Gender, Love, Masculinity, Men, Mothers, Patriarchy, Poetry, Pop Culture, Tyler Perry, Violence Against Women

Roy G. Whiz

Uh oh. It’s a code red (black and green). The bat signal is out. bell hooks has started spelling her name in all CAPS. Call up your elders, pray to your ancestors; conjure up your inner fairies, spirits, and goddesses. Tyler Perry is turning your favorite play, excuse me, choreopoem into a movie.

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July 31, 2009 at 9:57am

By Fallon

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Topics: American Values, capitalism, health, Health Care Debate, Media, Poverty, President Barack Obama, racism, White Privilege, Working Class

Obama, You Are Doomed to Fail, Unless You’re Jesus!

Like most black children growing up in Houston’s Fifth Ward, I spent most of my life medically uninsured. If you got sick, you stayed home and endured the experimental ministering of your grandmother whose medical knowledge consisted of a spoonful of Castor Oil, two drops of sweet oil in each ear, and effectual prayer to [...]

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July 27, 2009 at 9:44pm

By alexm

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Topics: capitalism, Media, Politics, racism

The Color of Corruption

For decades Detroit has been the center of the automotive industry in the United States, and was the destination of many black migrants in the early 50′s and 60′s. The factories provided jobs that allowed black men and women with little education to pay for their families in sustainable and even upwardly mobile ways. As [...]

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July 22, 2009 at 11:12am

By Summer M.

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Topics: capitalism, racism

Skip to My Lieu

A few years ago, when I was still taking graduate school course work, I got into a “disagreement” with a colleague about race and class. We had just left our course on mid-20th century black literature, and were hanging out in the department lounge for some strange reason–something I’d never do now. I think we [...]

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July 14, 2009 at 11:34am

By Summer M.

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Topics: capitalism

Till Death

till v. – to labor, as by plowing or harrowing, upon (land) for the raising of crops; cultivate. n. – a drawer, box, or the like, as in a shop or bank, in which money is kept I’ve been thinking about death a lot this year, both personally, with the death of my beloved great-grandmother, [...]

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June 29, 2009 at 3:51pm

By Fallon

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Topics: BET, capitalism, Community, consumption, Media, Michael Jackson, Music, Pop Culture

The Feasting of Michael Jackson’s Flesh

I am deeply troubled by the buffoonery of the 2009 Black Entertainment Television Award Show where “blackness” guaranteed BET’s ownership of honoring Michael J. Jackson’s life. Of course, there is an endless laundry list of technical, sexist, homophobic, and simply tone death performances that I could blog about. However, the most compelling issue for me [...]

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