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Interracial Adoption in Present-Racial Era
My friend and her husband, who are white, recently adopted their first child, who is black. They were selected through an agency by a black birth mother who felt they would make good parents to a...
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How the Color of Change Boycott Led Fox News to Boot Glenn Beck
Filed under: Around the Web From The Loop21: The announcement Wednesday that Fox News would end "The Glenn Beck Show" proved nothing short of stunning. After all, Glenn Beck's not only one of the most...
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Things to Do This Weekend: African Film Festival
The 18th annual New York African Film Festival is on through May 31st. Check it. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Good Times in Hannah's World
Last week, I walked from my apartment in the East Village to Milk Studios in the Meatpacking District, wearing Hudson Army pants and a Steven Alan button-down shirt to shoot the look book for Mauvais...
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46 Percent of Mississippians Believe Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights In a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, whose function is to "put out highly accurate polling on key political races across the country,"...
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Ivory Coast: Human Rights Watch Reports
Filed under: Around the Web ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - United Nations and French helicopters have fired rockets on the residence of Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who is holed up in a bunker, residents...
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Joseph Patterson: Ten Grime Tracks of the Last Decade
Filed under: Around the Web Grime music was never supposed to last this long -- according to aging music critics who have probably never attended a grime club night or listened to Rinse FM in their...
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Pretty Dope: Glenn Ligon at the Whitney
Filed under: Commentary An impossibly brilliant, modern and beautifully difficult view of our country, Glenn Ligon: America is the first real and substantive retrospective of the New York-based artist,...
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Voodoo on the Rise
From The New York Times: It was past 3 a.m. in a dim basement in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Jack Laroche, a Haitian-American computer engineer, nervously awaited his bride: a voodoo spirit named Ezili...
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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues
On a drizzly overcast evening in Manhattan, the jazz cognoscenti and fans of guitarist Eric Clapton descended onto the elegant Rose Theater, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, for an evening of uplifting...
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Ghetto Physics
A new documentary is making its way through the major cities of the United States. The film, GhettoPhysics: Redefining the Game!, is an intriguing movie about power dynamics. Its provocative premise...
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Stereotypes Black Women Internalize
By Bene Viera, from Clutch Magazine: When a BBC News reporter from the UK contacted me last summer about being the core subject of a radio documentary focusing on single Black women, my immediate...
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Olympian Carl Lewis to Run for NJ Senate
Filed under: News, Politics Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis (pictured) is planning to run for New Jersey Senate. Share Tweet A state Democratic Party official says Lewis will announce his candidacy on...
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Why Getting a Tax Refund Check is NOT a Good Idea
Filed under: Savings, Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, Money The IRS reports that 75 percent of taxpayers get a tax refund check each year, and that the average income tax refund is currently about $3,100....
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Eddie Murphy Honored with Icon Award at 'The Comedy Awards'
Filed under: Television, Awards, Entertainment Eddie Murphy won the first Comedy Icon Award at the inaugural 'The Comedy Awards' for making people laugh for more than 35 years. Tracy Morgan presented...
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5 Questions With L.A. Reid
Filed under: Music, Television, Interviews, Celeb Updates Antonio "L.A." Reid knows exactly what it takes to succeed in the music business. As former Island Def Jam honcho, he's helped acts including...
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Philadelphia Tribune to Digitally Archive Photos Documenting African-American...
Filed under: News This nation's oldest newspaper, The Philadelphia Tribune (pictured), announced Monday that it is digitally archiving their entire photo collection, which includes more than 250,000...
View ArticleFather Pfleger's Battle with the Catholic Church
In this exclusive "Smiley & West" preview, Father Michael Pfleger talks with my co-host Cornel West and me about his current battle with the Archdiocese of Chicago. Father Pfleger says his extended...
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Snapped: Ciara's Barely-There Concert Wear
Filed under: Hot or Not This past weekend, Ciara was spotted performing at the Sydney Supafest music festival along with the likes of Keri Hilson, Nelly and T-Pain. What's the point in working so hard...
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Beyonce Joins in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity
Filed under: Fitness Anyone who's seen Beyonce perform knows that her body is not a product of classic Hollywood starvation. The singer pulls out all the stops when she gets on stage, usually giving a...
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