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The funniest game in NBA playoff history - I know this isn’t a conventional title, but last night wasn’t a conventional game. Last night was, without a doubt, the funniest game I have ever seen in m...
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AJC: VIOLENT Weekend In Atlanta - Oh Never Mind. Its Just The MEDIA And Plus I Don't Like Black People :-/ - 15 shootings in three days, eight men killed If I told you that looking at nothing more than the PLACEMENT of the push pins on the map that there is a HIG...
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House Defense Committee will vote on anti-gay amendments on Wed - There's nothing like receiving a flaming pile of bigoted horsesh*t like this in your inbox. For Immediate Release: May 9, 2011 *Hunter to Offer DADT Amend...6 hours ago
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Airline to Imams: No Muslims Allowed! - How is this for irony? Two imams were headed to a conference addressing Islamophobia and prejudice in America, and instead of flying to their destination ...
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Mr. Speaker, why would you flood out the people of Cairo?You know that black folks can't swim. - It must really suck to be the most famous birther, *Mr. Bad Hair,* these days. Has anyone heard from him lately? I am afraid that my man might be think...
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Interview with the founders of Nation 19 Clothing Line (Part Deuce): “We work as a team” - * * *(Blogger’s Note: This is Part 2 in a three-part blog series I am doing on Nation 19 Clothing Line.)* * * In Part 1, we left off talking about the laun...
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The Native Americans - I found the following video over at Anishinaabekwe. I was originally going to just link to it on Saturday's Drop it Like it's Hot, but after more thought, I...
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Your Mother Fucks [Happy Mother's Day!] - ¡Hola! Everybody... I’ve been hammering away all weekend at the *stereotype* of motherhood. First, while some stereotypes have the potential to be positive,...
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Black Juror to Court: Justice Impossible With Confederate Flag Flying - A Louisiana man who refused to serve in a death penalty trial now challenges the conviction, too.13 hours ago
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I love cats but…. nawl, dawg. I aint doing this. - As you guys have seen around here, I am without a doubt a cat person. I don’t care what man-laws i’m breaking, i don’t give a fuuuuggggggg, I love kitty as...15 hours ago
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Are You Ready For Christ Return On May 21 2011? - Get ready, Get ready, Get ready Jesus is coming May 21,2011 back....are you ready for the return of Christ? I'm not talking about that May 21, 2011 crazines...16 hours ago
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Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks Talks About Hanging of Frederick Jermaine Carter - Sheriff Banks at crime scene Remarkable interview with Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks about the hanging of Frederick Jermaine Carter. * Banks is very ...
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Soundtrack for a Revolution - It is no secret that I love music. Indeed, music fuels my lifelong commitment to activism. So for me, tonight’s American Experience program, “Soundtrack for ...18 hours ago
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The Death Of A Few Dynasties. - Two down, one to go. Over the past decade, only a handful of NBA teams have made it to the proverbial mountaintop known as a world championship. And slow...
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Entertain us!!! - [image: entertain-us] Brazilian fantasy action flick Besouro available to watch at this link If you need a reminder… the story goes… As essentially an acti...1 day ago
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IC 246: Tasers & Pepper Spray - Topics: Follow up on Mariah’s baby names We need adult theaters Your kids can get kicked in the chest Dumb kid gets attacked by leopard at zoo Robbing a Wa...1 day ago
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Happy Mother’s Day - I’d like to wish all mother’s a Happy Mother’s Day. We appreciate all of the love, dedication, and care that you provide us with. Mother’s are angels on Ea...1 day ago
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Lady Gaga criticizes Arizona immigration laws, gets called “intolerant” - This is really interesting: MEXICO CITY — Singer Lady Gaga says she doesn’t agree with Arizona’s tough immigration law and wrote the song “Americano” as a ...1 day ago
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Getting “Real”: Bill Maher’s New Rules For Republicans After The Past Two Weeks - This was priceless. Once in a while, Bill Maher is off-center, but most of the time he can’t help but be dead center on the mark regarding the Republicans...2 days ago
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Today At Big Think: You Are More Likely To Drown Than Die From A Terrorist Attack - Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on *BigThink.com*: You Are More Likely To Drown Than Die From A Terrorist Attack * A friend of mine sent me a t...
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By George! I think I've got it! - Wanna speak in tongues? Don't floss daily And I hope you read that in an 'Enry 'Iggins accent. Or in a Fiddy Cent one. Same thing. Fuck CZJ and her BPD (an...
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From the Classroom: Reflections on Education - “Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts. If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut. The school was garbage in the first ...4 days ago
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The Embarrassing Media Response to Rashard Mendenhall’s Tweets - Americans sure know how to get riled up. Every week we find some new, mundane thing to get upset about. This week it was Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back R...4 days ago
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Just Stopping Doesn’t Stop It - It was John F. Kennedy that said, victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. A lot of people are patting President Barack Obama on his back f...4 days ago
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GOP’s Debate Tonight Is Sponsored By the John Birch Society - ABC News reports that The John Birch society, infamous for its vocal opposition to the Civil Rights movement, represents “the far-right fringe of American ...4 days ago
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Visiting my Blogger Family ~ Black 'n Bougie - I'm over @ my blog cousin's house this week. Check me out *here. *4 days ago
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Love, Hate, Frustration, and Basketball - I wrote this piece for a friend of mine’s local digital magazine (you can check them out at www.ctpmag.com). He asked for an article on the Atlanta Hawks T...5 days ago
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Photos of Osama bin Laden's Body: So, You Really Want to See those? Why? When Do We Get Enough? - Updated Wednesday: President Obama says White House will not release Osama bin Laden death photos: "We don't trot out this stuff as trophies"The White House...
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First Lady Does Dougie For "Fitness" (Video) - From ABC NewsBut you can tell she really just wanted to get down. Even though she said she couldn't fully participate because she didn't know all the dan...6 days ago
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Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann: Playa Haters of the Year - After the killing of OBL, everybody was as united as can be. President Barack Obama got praises from everybody, even some of his nemesis like Donald Trum...
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Remember President Obama isn’t the Only American Having to Show His Papers to Racist - A few thoughts on this madness surrounding Donald Trump, Barack Obama and the Birther nation.. First we should keep in mind this ‘papers please’ mentality ...1 week ago
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Donald Trump Asks to see Jesus’ Birth Certificate and Why He is a Racist - Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL1 week ago
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Mad Minute: Revenge of the "MANmy" - I am nowhere near expert status on discourses surrounding the mammy figure in black (popular) culture. For more info if that caliber check out research lik...1 week ago
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Hiatus... - Hate to be absent and not share with those who drop by that I'll be away for a while. Hope the fish are biting!
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Manic Monday - This Manic Monday offering is a catchy little ditty. A serious oldie but goody. You can find many references to it in pop culture. One of my favorites i...
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Kobe Bryant, Anti-Gay Slurs, & the Fans who Defend Homophobia & “Rape Culture” - NBA superstar and all around superhuman wannabe-rapper, Shaquille O’Neal, dissed Kobe Bryant by kicking a fresh sixteen onetime with the hook, “Kobe, tel...3 weeks ago
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Tuesday Open Thread - Kenneth Brian “Babyface“ Edmonds (born April 10, 1958) is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer...36 minutes ago
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Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of May 9, 2011 - *McKinney: Attack on Gaddafi Family Shows Obama as “War Criminal”* “If there was anyone who doubted our president was a war criminal, there is no doub...4 hours ago
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Confidence is Everything - There is one thing I hear men say repeatedly about what they find most attractive about women: Confidence. Confidence, they say, is so “sexy”. A confiden...7 hours ago
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Isn't it time that we bought our troops home?!? - *Well Osama Bin Laden is finally dead.* *Not only is Osama Bin Laden dead; but the Korean War ended 58 years ago and World War II ended 66 years ago. The...
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About Last Night XIV: +FE | Detroit - After many years of being a huge fan of The Foreign Exchange, I finally had the opportunity to see them perform in Detroit with Sy Smith & Zo last night! M...7 hours ago
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America’s Latest Distraction - Now that the half-Negro President has proven he’s an American citizen, the Prince has married the peasant girl and America has killed the “bad guy”, it’s t...8 hours ago
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VIDEO- BLUNT: Obama Got Osama - Blunt is a lot like letters to the editor. YOUR take, short, to the point. You have a voice, now use it. For more information about how to contribute to Bl...8 hours ago
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Abuse of the Child and the Consequences in Adulthood of Blacks - I've been struggling with a relative who says one thing today and another tomorrow, and announces decisions with no clear sense of responsibility for harmo...9 hours ago
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Preacher shoots 13 year -old teen who threw a rock at his car. - [image: Alex Williams, charged with aggravated assault after shooting teen who threw a rock at his car.] Fulton County Sheriff's Office Alex Williams, char...9 hours ago
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And Mother's Day Starts My Vacation....... - Yesterday was Mother's Day. It was the first Mother's Day that I have spent without my mom. It made me think back to last year. Mother's Day Weekend 2010 ...
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Lance Scurv’s Wonderful Night In A Barroom Brawl! - Just when you may think that you are just TOO old for certain particular scenarios, those very situations are brought right to you and placed at your feet!...13 hours ago
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links for 2011-05-09 - - Maoris Visit France to Retrieve Shrunken Head | Sydney Morning Herald "Rouen authorities decided to give the head back to the Maoris in 2007 ...14 hours ago
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Astra's Batshit Roundup - General Batshit; 'WTF' Moments; Our Favorite Fundies; Batshit of the Week Award.... Well, Osama Bin Laden is busy feeding crabs right now; the Mississippi...
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Removing Women from Situation Room Photo - Tim, Cindy S., and Kenny V. sent in an interesting story. The Brooklyn-based newspaper *Der Tzitung*, which targets the Ultra Orthodox Jewish community, ...15 hours ago
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Anarchism: What It Really Stands For By: Emma Goldman - By: Emma Goldman ANARCHISM Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art t...15 hours ago
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Bin Laden’s Legacy Will Always Live As Long As We Have TSA - Ding dong the witch is dead. Shot in the head and buried at sea so that he will not be enshrined in any living act or memorial. Some folks still have quest...
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Do Financial Red Flags During Courtship Predict Money Problems Later In Marriage? - From Black and Married With Kids According to a recent Match.com poll, 50% of women say it would be okay for their date to pay with a coupon. I consider m...
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace - Fact: Excessive force and racial profiling are systemic problems impacting law enforcement agencies all across the country, from which none are immune. Fac...17 hours ago
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"He Never Bought Me Nothing!" - Apart from the gentle reminder to never use a double negative when talking to the Press -- nothing says "Classy Lady" like the use of Proper English, aft...
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Tried and Tested and True – Classic Moisturizers - They’re the bottles and jars you grew up seeing on your mama’s dresser or in your family bathroom cabinet. The products that don’t get buzz about being new...18 hours ago
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John Brown’s Birthday: Remembering Anti-Slavery Revolutionaries - [This is a repeat of a May 9, 2010 posting on this, the birthday of John Brown--an important US revolutionary who died, with his black and white colleagues...18 hours ago
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Eagerly anticipating the Freedom Riders documentary… - I’m sorry I’ve been absent of late. I was swarmed with work and then I caught a mild case of the plague that I’m sorta recovered from. Mercy. Anyhoo, le...19 hours ago
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Exciting News! For me, not so much for BougieLand... - I got into recruiting oh-so-many years ago because I loved the thrill of marrying good people with good jobs and watching their careers grow. Over time, ...
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Your Place or Mine? - One lazy Saturday afternoon in a friend’s apartment a group of us lady folk sat revealed our new summer agendas, diets, hopes and dreams. We also joked abo...20 hours ago
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Jumping the Broom Made me Want to Jump Outta My Seat... and NOT in a Good Way. - OH dear. I should have listened to my readers who overwhelmingly indicated that they were NOT going to go see Jumping the Broom. You were right! The movi...21 hours ago
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It's not Carol's Daughter's fault or Remembering to be a critical consumer - Thursday on my Twitter feed I posted a link to Gina's rant about the beauty brand Carol's Daughter on What About Our Daughters to varying responses. The ...
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2011, FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW - There is a story about a woman in Africa that I feel is worth taking the time to share with you. The story is about a lesbian who was murdered in South Afr...23 hours ago
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Social Commentary: Osama Bin Laden is Dead! So Fvcking What? - The announcement that Osama Bin Laden was assassinated in a raid in a home in Pakistan instantly went viral across all forms of modern media. Internet traf...1 day ago
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Being A Mother Is Tough Work - [image: n575892673_2522118_4196] I don’t have too many photos of me with my mother when I was a kid. As an adult I don’t like taking them and I was the s...2 days ago
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Come Flash Mob Dance with Dr. Goddess for Pgh CASA! - Pittsburgh CASA Rally for Children Flash Mob Dance with Dr. Goddess! First rehearsal, followup rehearsals, website for registration: http://rally4childrenf...2 days ago
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The 50th Anniversary of Tennessee State University's Freedom Riders - The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Boynton v. Virginia (1960) gave travelers the legal right to disregard local segregation ordinances regarding inter...
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Them Who Shall Be Asked For Papers - WE BEGIN, but do not end, with the sensational incident where the Obama White House, under Trumpian pressure, produced for public inspection the President’...4 days ago
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The Invisible President - Well...it’s been a while since the last time I posted. Everyone is talking about Osama Ben Laden’s death and as usual the Republicans are trying to discr...
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A Trip to the Gynecologist - As a woman in pursuit of freedom it’s also my responsibility to help other women become free. Knowing about my reproductive health is VERY high on my list...1 week ago
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Hiatus - I had hoped that it would not have to come to this. Alas, I learned a lesson from my friend Darian Aaron: It is nearly impossible to devote your full a...
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Branch VP Lavonta Williams elected Vice-Mayor of the City of Wichita!!! - This morning, Lavonta Williams, who currently serves as the City Councilwoman for Wichita District 1, the Vice President of the Wichita Branch NAACP, the S...
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