March 25, 2011
I’ve been fortunate enough to have a few coffee conversations with this very smart, engaging, charismatic and talented visual artist, Brandon Coley Cox. I recently saw a video he posted on facebook via my newsfeed of him, well, painting with …
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March 25, 2011
I think I am gonna save Fridays for my favorite videos of the week. In this case, the clear winner is my good-Judy, Yolo Akili’s newest video offering, “Are We the Kind of Boy’s We Want?” The video is part …
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March 22, 2011
Admittedly, I hate most Tyler Perry movies as much as the next black person for all the obvious reasons. But for the last several years, if you want to see a movie about Black people-and have Black people be in …
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March 22, 2011
When I was preparing to write the piece “Blacks Being Ethnically Cleansed from NYC?” I knew I was going to get 2 questions (which, quite predictably, I got): 1. What are white people supposed to do? (A question, I think …
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March 21, 2011
On Friday, Charles M. Blow, Black op-ed columnist at the New York Times wrote about the census data from 2010, which is showing that NYC, which has been a city with very large Black population (only 4 states have more …
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March 16, 2011
I don’t want to take attention away from the human horror of what’s happening in Japan-I hate when I see the suffering of Black people turned into a debate about something else (e.g., The Left’s using Hurricane Katrina to make …
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March 9, 2011
This is why Liberals suck. They can’t defend a position if they’re life depended on it. So NPR is reeling from 2 fired employees after NPR staff fundraiser Ron Schiller called the Tea Party racist, in a meeting he thought …
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February 28, 2011
Jesus, take the wheel!: It seems like yet another “down-low” story is about to hit the big screen. Wendell Pierce, who recently starred as the trumpeter trombone player down on his luck in the HBO series Treme, will be starring …
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February 25, 2011
So I have a subscription to American Prospect-the progressive DC economic policy magazine that’s very much in the political line of Center for American Progress, Demos, and the like. Now, I’m not that kind of liberal, and often disagree with …
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