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Lincoln Heights
All this talk of Tyler Perry v. Spike Lee got me thinking… A commenter on A Belle in Brooklyn’s post on this issue, Butterscotch Baby, said With the cancellations of Everybody Hates Chris, Chocolate...
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Black Hair: Who owns the industry?
Recently, black hair has become a hot topic in mainstream America thanks to Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair (and Oprah’s whole show devoted to the film). This morning, I stumbled up on a video by...
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Superiority Complexes.
This morning it occurred to me that I may be developing a “you don’t know who I am” complex. It’s because of where I work. Many people here have that complex. I work with/around some of the most...
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Stuff White People Do
I’ve done a guest blog post over at Stuff White People Do. Check it out! I don’t know if any of you frequent other blogs run by a white person that attempt to do what swpd attempts to do, but I don’t....
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Blackness and Education
What happens to a person’s racial identity when they attend private school? How many black points do you lose when you jump the lane and decide to attend school with the rich white kids who’s parents...
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No New Orleans
I don’t usually cross-post between blogs, but this post bears re-posting I guess since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we’ve become desensitized to lower levels of natural disasters in cities. Or maybe we...
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Over Here!
While I was at home with my mom this weekend, I went out with some friends and we spent a portion of our evening outside of a popular bar people watching. At one point so much foolishness was going on...
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Priorities
I was alerted to a disturbing news story today. A young mother in Atlanta was recently convicted of vehicular homicide in the death of one of her young children. The twist here is that she was not in,...
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How Race Slowed the Investigation of a Double Homicide
I love crime shows, especially crime docs like Forensic Files and Cold Case Files. Lately I’ve been watching a show on Netflix called Crime 360. In this reality show, cameras follow the investigation...
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The Generation of Fake Reality
The internet’s been abuzz these last couple of days with the story of Karen Klein, a 68 year old bus monitor whose experience with taunting was videotaped and posted to facebook by one of her taunters...
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