- Thanks Rob! “Michael Irvin postulated that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who is white, owes his athletic ability to the miscegenation of a distant relative with one of her slave hands…”[Romo's] great, great, great, great Grandma pulled one of th
- “Michael Richards aside, many comics, musicians and artists make use of the ‘N’ word in their work. How do they decide when it’s appropriate? Hip-hop icon KRS-ONE and comedy legend Paul Mooney discuss the topic with Farai Chideya.”
- “How does the hit reality show Flavor of Love play on black America’s long war on racial stereotypes? Commentator Mark Anthony Neal is an associate professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University…”
- “what happens when the guilty officers are Black, White and Latino? Did the White guy make the others pull the trigger? Can Black people be accused of racial profiling against their own race? Do Latinos profile Blacks the same way Whites do?…”
- Thanks Kyla! “The judge mocks his hair, which the deputy helpfully explains is styled in twists rather than cornrows, and repeatedly and without apology calls him “Sammy.” In Southern parlance, that’s the insult of calling someone out of their name…”
- Thanks Kyla! “On Wynton Marsalis’ upcoming CD, he criticizes political leadership in America, cultural corruption, and sex and violence in rap — and that’s just on one song. “I don’t speak from outside, I’m not finger-pointing,” the 45-year-old jazz gre
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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