A friend and I recently renewed the debate of Pam Grier vs. Halle Berry. My parents hadn’t even met when Foxy Brown came out but I’ve always had a thing for Grier because of what her image represents. Not just was she sexy but she had an aura that was unmistakably black. Grier rocked an …
If I just immigrated to the US, didn’t speak English and turned on CNN I’d think John Boehner was the President. The man is unyielding no matter how ridiculous his positions are and beats you to death with the same few catch phrases in every speech. He’s Benjamin Netanyahu (Why don’t you click your “indefensible” …
If you mention the New World Order people will give you odd stares and might even label you a “conspiracy theorist.” However, it must’ve been important because my AP U.S. History teacher gave us a handout with extracts from President George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” speech laying out the plans for a multinational approach …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7WrWOCKCc&w=425&h=349] Before college I thought of Adderall as something kids used to spice up their nose candy collection rather than an ADHD medicine. One evening my sophomore year, a friend hit me up saying she needed to get Adderall but didn’t want to walk to get it alone. It was around 2 am and …
There’s a scene in the movie EuroTrip where a man unwittingly gets stuck in a sexual contraption that resembles a torture device from Star Wars and he can’t pronounce the safe word to escape. I sympathize every time I turn on CNN and watch debt ceiling analysis. In this case, the safe word is probably …
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, …
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 …