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Black in America on CNN and HBCU campuses

I received a nice email from a PR rep at CNN about a special tour they’re doing to get a ‘grassroots’ perspective on what it means to be Black in America. The concept is pretty neat as it enlists the opinions of students on HBCU campuses to provide a report, documentary style, to share with [...]

8Apr2008 | Fredric | 3 comments | Continued
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Banned BET Boondocks Full Episode (Video)

Shouts to Intelligent Ignorance.
Interestingly enough, the question of ‘artistic merit’ is stretched pretty far by McGruder in this episode. While Brandon over at Intelligent Ignorance posed the question of ‘is this more hurtful, than helpful’, I’m reminded of the lessons in history class about the merits of artists that challenged their time, ultimately inventing their [...]

24Mar2008 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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President Bush does Africa right

What will G Dub’s legacy be when he leaves office? September 11th? The Florida recount? The “fool me once…shame on you; fool me twice…I won’t be fooled again” quote?
I’m sure we can all create a laundry list of negatives when it comes to our beloved leader, but Africa, we have to give him some props. [...]

3Mar2008 | Fredric | 3 comments | Continued
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Are you happy now?! … probably not

Barack Obama once again disassociated himself with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrkhan at the final presidential debate Tuesday.
“I obviously can’t censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan,” he said.
Read more about it here.

27Feb2008 | Eugene | 4 comments | Continued
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Check It Out

If you haven’t added TheRoot.com to your regular reading of issues affecting black Americans, perhaps its time to start.
There’s some good stuff about Obama not attending Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union for the second time in a row; The Bush Family’s slave-holding past and the Blackness Diet.

18Feb2008 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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American Lives

Despite the attention it received in recent years, I’ve never really had the desire to trace my roots back to Africa. Because the DNA is only traced back through a handful of women, the information would represent such a small percentage of my history that I wasn’t sure that it was worth it. (They [...]

7Feb2008 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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Keep Keepin’ On Lewis

One of things that comes up when I talk to my friends about our time over in Europe is the different manifestations of racism and ignorance. While it’s definitely disheartening for native Africans to not claim ‘us’ as African-American (because, you know, we all won’t be lumped together anyways), it’s nothing compared to France and [...]

4Feb2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Too White to Be Black

The story of Bluefield State College is an interesting one. For those of you who don’t know, the historically black college is also a predominantly white institution.
An employee recently sued the college saying that too many leadership positions are overwhelmingly white.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported,
“An employee of Bluefield State College has filed a [...]

23Jan2008 | Eugene | 2 comments | Continued
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Hollywood Writers Might Write NAACP Awards Show

Looks like the NAACP Image Awards might be the only awards show the Hollywood writers write for.
Reps for the Writers Guild of America told the Associated Press that the organization will not likely stop striking to write for next month’s Grammy’s or the Oscar’s, but might for the NAACP event.
The AP reported:
The Guild said [...]

20Jan2008 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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