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Donald Byrd 1932-2013
Yesterday I was awakened by a text on my iPhone from my buddy Kpup telling me Donald Byrd(DB) had passed away. I immediately grabbed my device and searched the web. The first site that came up was the...
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Iran Calls Oscar-Winning ‘Argo’ An ‘Advertisement For The CIA’
Image: John Shearer Invision, AP Iran’s state TV dismissed the Oscar-winning film “Argo” on Monday as an “advertisement for the CIA” and some Iranians called the award a political statement by America...
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Of Course Hemingway Read the Paper in the Nude: Photos of Authors at Home
Ernest Hemingway reading The New York Times in bed. [via Protagon, photo credit: George Leavens] The NON-Conformist loves Baldwin!! James Baldwin at home in Saint-Paul de VenceImage: Saint -Paul de...
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History of Rap Part 4
It’s Monday….heavy sigh…this ought to get you going. Posted by Libergirl
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Obama ‘Change’ poster artist infuriates gun advocates with his new work
Images: Russia Today Graphic designer and street artist Shepard Fairey has released a new print associating gun owners with Satan. Claiming to be inspired by recent massacres, he created the image to...
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The History of America’s Ivy Leagues is Muddied With Slavery
The new book Ebony and Ivy uncovers the shocking truth about a history that none of America’s universities want to admit being connected to. Image: Bloomsbury Press via Alternet The following is an...
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Friday Fun: Motown Really Had a Hold on the Beatles
With so much drama in the world, don’t you want to have some Friday Fun? On their second album, The Beatles wore their influences on the record sleeve. Released in the U.K. less than three months...
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New Orleans Shivers in One of Coldest Mardi Gras Ever
Not only is it raining on their parade, but it’s darn cold, too. Mardi Gras revelers in New Orleans — accustomed to balmy weather for their big annual celebration — spent Tuesday bundled up under their...
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THE DEATH OF BILL COSBY’S LEGACY
“Bill cosby 1969″ by William Morris Agency Uploaded by We hope at en.wikipedia – eBay item photo front photo back Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBot. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia...
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Stevie Wonder Speaks Out About Ferguson, Eric Garner and Gun Control
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Cleveland Anchor Returns to Television after On-air Racial Slur
A week after making national headlines by using a racially offensive term on the air, Kristi Capel returned to WJW Channel 8’s morning newscast. And it was a business-as-usual 4:30-10 a.m. Monday run...
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Honoring the Legacy of Norma Merrick Sklarek: The ‘Rosa Parks of Architecture’
Image: Atlanta Blackstar The year was 1928. It was the year that the world saw the first fully air-conditioned office building open, Amelia Earhart make her first Atlantic Ocean flight and the last...
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Are We Slighting Black Women By Celebrating the NWA Biopic? –
“Straight Outta Compton” is having great success and surprising many as it rakes in nearly $60 million during its opening weekend. While the movie is riding on its theatrical high, there are some...
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Celebrating Black History Month: Romare Bearden
Image: NCpedia Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte in 1911. Although his family moved north when he was only four years old, he said of his home state, “Most artists take some place, and like a...
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Paints It Black At The New Museum
“Vigil For A Horseman” (2017) by Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeIMAGES COURTESY THE ARTIST/CORVI-MORA, LONDON/JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK To walk in to British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s current...
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Suspect Arrested In Death Of African American Museum Founder Discovered In...
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, a community activist who founded the African American Museum in Baton Rouge, La. Image: Baton Rouge Police...
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Fresh Air NPR-Prince Wanted To ‘Break The Mold Of The Memoir,’ Says His...
books Google.com Dan Piepenbring was a 29-year-old editor of the literary magazine The Paris Reviewin 2016 when he met Prince for the first time — and agreed to help the musical icon pen a memoir. It...
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Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, has died. He was 86. Image:...
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