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Ugh. Here we go again. “the photos — in which partygoers carried 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor and wore Afro wigs, necklaces with large medallions and name tags bearing traditionally black and Hispanic names — upset some black law students…”
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“biologist Bert Ely of the University of South Carolina and colleagues found that fewer than 10 percent of African-American mitochondrial DNA sequences that were analyzed can be matched to any single African ethnic group…”
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Thanks Jennifer! “Human rights groups in Malawi will seek a court injunction on Monday to stop pop star Madonna from proceeding with the adoption of a one-year-old boy in the impoverished African nation…”
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Thanks Luke! “Lyons said that Piniella was “hablaing Espanol” — butchering the conjugation for the word “to speak” — and added, “I still can’t find my wallet.”…Lyons claimed he was kidding…”my comment about Lou taking my wallet was a joke and in no
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Thanks Tariq! Part of The Washington Post’s continuing series on Being a Black Man. Black women speak about the importance of marriage, marrying a black man, interracial dating, and marriage expectations.
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Thanks Mark and Phil C! “The Nazis may have taken it to murderous extremes, but eugenics existed long before Hitler’s 1933 rise to power. A new exhibition in Dresden…looks at the pseudo-scientific foundations of racism.”
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Thanks Tariq! “there has been a remarkable convergence in television viewing habits…Now, there is almost a perfect match between what blacks and whites are watching and while many of these shows have black characters, none feature a predominately black
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“The WWE has…a new Asian wrestler character..he is wearing a confederate flag-emblazoned leather vest and is standing beside a pick up truck. “I’m a redneck,” Yun announces. “Ain’t no yeller about me.”
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“I was hoping to create a character who you really saw as three-dimensional. Usually, the fat kid is the sidekick, or the comic relief…I wanted shift the focus to him and say ‘this kid is a full person and he has the same kind of sexual desires that R
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Omari wrote:
On the Washington Post article, “Black Women Speak Their Minds”: funny how the series is titled “Being a Black Man.” This story is part of a story they did about black women and how hard it is for them to find black men. True, true, but the tales of the black woman and how hard it is for her to find a man is tired and has been done countless times. Not only would a story from black men’s perspective been more interesting, but it also would have fit in with the subject of the series!
Posted 16 Oct 2006 at 3:29 pm ¶
Sandra wrote:
The Dean at UT Law School sent an email chastising students for the “ghetto” party. A critique of the Dean’s letter is posted at Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen10162006.html
Posted 17 Oct 2006 at 1:40 am ¶