Recently a friend sent me a clip from the Maury Show and my initial response was, “I’d rather tell people I smoke crack than enjoy some Maury Povich.” For those unfamiliar, the Maury Show is the epitome of daytime trash television. It’s infamous for parading the type of hood people that would make Jerry Springer …
I thought I was having an 80s flashback when I heard U.S. tax dollars were going to the Taliban. It’s 2011 right? Perhaps we’re taking this Reagan worship thing a little too far. At least in the 80s we could defend funding and training them because it was to take out the Russians. After all, …
Checkout this Huffington Post column on the 1947 film Beginning or the End and how President Harry Truman personally had the script re-written to make the bombing of Hiroshima (Nagasaki wasn’t included in the film) look better. Here’s a telling excerpt: “After protests from the White House, the MGM screenwriter James K. McGuinness deleted the …
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When you listen to a song like NWA’s “Gangsta Gangsta” and hear Ice Cube talking about stomping out people at parties and gunning down others for the hell of it, it might sound strange considering the only member of the group who had a criminal record at the time was the late Eazy-E. However, Public …
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As the NBA lockout continues we get a real glimpse of what the league is all about. The owners want to make a profit and the players want to protect themselves. It’s a business. No player seems to understand this more than LeBron James. He has been unapologetic going about his career on his own …
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The AP recently did a report inside North Korea, both confirming and countering many of the stories we’re told about the country through our media. If there’s one passage from the story that sums it up it’s this: “The common thinking is that North Koreans are shut off from the rest of the world. But …
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Although recent news that MSNBC is ready to hire Al Sharpton has continued the trend of no black journalists in prime time, we should see this as an opportunity rather than a thinly veiled slight. It’s no secret that cable news networks’ primary audience is not black people so why would we expect them to …
According to a blurb on The Root, the Justice Department has decided it won’t investigate the controversial murder of Malcolm X. Affidavits have implicated four men besides the three that were arrested, and out of those three, two are widely suspected of being set up. Many suspect the FBI and local police at least knew …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UzYKl-L2Eo&w=425&h=349] What do hip-hop and personal computing have in common? You probably don’t know the pioneers of either and chances are both are broke or died broke. We’re familiar with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs just as we’re familiar with Run-DMC, Dr. Dre and Jay-Z. What about Fred Moore or DJ Kool Herc? Moore …
No Let Up by Hunger Strikers in Pelican Bay | Common Dreams. For all these prison officials care, men losing 20-35 pounds isn’t enough. What these inmates are doing is the ultimate sacrifice just to be treated like humans.