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December 28, 2011
OPINION - Sir Charles, as he is sometimes called, sets an example for other black men who don't typically receive…
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December 14, 2011
OPINION - Gene Marks of Forbes wrote a column entitled "If I Wear a Poor Black Kid" (which has been…
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November 21, 2011
OPINION - Kid Cudi plans to release his upcoming third album, by his side-group 'WZRD', sans curses and the infamous…
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November 17, 2011
OPINION - Sly didn't make it easy. Unlike Clinton, or James Brown, or even Rick James, Stone disappeared completely from…
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November 15, 2011
OPINION - They were trying to kill the movement. They've only set themselves up for an incredibly long fight...
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October 7, 2011
OPINION - Racism is much more deeply entrenched in the fabric of American life than a simple whitewashing of one's…
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September 16, 2011
OPINION - We need jobs now, absolutely, but if something isn't done about the student loan debt crisis, we very…
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August 5, 2011
OPINION - In a way, it's the 'post-racial' version of 'Planet of the Apes' in the same way America has…
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July 21, 2011
OPINION - No matter what the source of these vicious and hateful comments, what remains is that they have no…
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June 8, 2011
OPINION - We can simply can not say we have Haiti's best interests at heart and simultaneously work diligently to…
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March 3, 2011
OPINION - Rodney King brought the issues of police brutality and racial profiling to the forefront of the American political…
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January 3, 2011
OPINION - In our celebrity obsessed culture, no one felt the intense pressure and scrutiny of public life more than…
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December 22, 2010
OPINION - Even as it has gained in popularity, Kwanzaa still isn't an enormously popular tradition among the constituency for…