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"Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor died today of congestive heart failure at age 79. Over the years one of her most memorable public relationships was the friendship she shared with Michael Jackson. In the last few years of Jackson's career the pair were inseparable. In the midst of numerous tabloid rumors and controversies, Taylor was often the first person sought by the media to make a statement on Jackson's behalf. They bonded over shared experiences as child stars who became Hollywood legends, citing that they both felt that their youth was stolen from them."
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"I guess not even former President Clinton could stand the reservation wait list at Red Rooster, because Bubba is packing up his stuff and moving out of the area. Clinton, who has had an office on 125th street and Adam Clayton Powell in Harlem for over 10 years, is moving most of the William J Clinton Foundation to Water Street in the Financial District. Yup, Bubba’s leaving the upper-upper west side for down-down town.
"As Clinton gets ready to leave, it seems most of the area’s residents, who held a huge party when he arrived, don’t really care."
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"Crossing boundaries in all directions with their ska-punk-funk-alternative fusion music and topical lyrics, Fishbone’s genre-smashing style is, in the words of rapper Ice-T, 'the OG, the original ‘original band.’" Fishbone literally grew out of southern California’s shifting racial fault lines. The band members first came together as a result of Los Angeles’ desegregation policies that bussed students from South Central and Watts into the mostly white San Fernando Valley schools. The intersection of cultures that turned strangers into friends, and into Fishbone—a band that defied the idea of what black and white music are supposed to be and, in the process, won wild acclaim from its peers, if not the marketplace.
“'Everyday Sunshine' interweaves the broader political history that shaped Fishbone with the story of the band itself. It is a testament to the times then and now."
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"Strauss recalls his first meeting with the heiress in 1999, during which the 18-year-old Hilton did some ecstasy, made out with David 'Bud Bundy' Faustino and dropped a little racial bomb. The author claims that Hilton was horrified to find out that 'the guy from Saving Private Ryan' who she’d made out with was actually Black (that mysterious light-skinned gent would be Vin Diesel, btw) and states that she 'can’t stand Black guys. I would never touch one. It’s gross.' However, her comments do give one pause. While Hilton’s phrasing was offensive and racist, I’m not quick to judge her personal preference. For all the people taking offense to her words (again, I’m not pardoning her way of expressing her disinterest at ALL), how many Black folks out there have little to no attraction to members of other races? *Raises hand*"
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"Women encounter lateness perhaps most sharply, not only because of gendered stigmas against being out of home at night and perceptions of appropriate feminine behavior, but also for more brutal reasons: Nadeem notes the rape and murder of two women in 2005 and 2007, and other attacks on women returning home after late night shifts at call centers. All this suggests a sad, strange story: workers spend their “days” in places completely abstracted from general time, and emerge afterwards into the deep hours of night. The unrelenting monitoring of employees, of course, stops at the door."
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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