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The Daily: “Entertainer” Glenn Beck says a professor is “dangerous”. She’s now getting death threats.
[Beck] accused Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as being “an enemy of the Constitution” and an advocate of “violent revolution” and has listed her as one of the nine most dangerous people in the world. Since he…
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Be Moore: Dead Man Walking
Bryndan (Be) Moore claims to know how he is supposed to DIE, and he’s hell bent on stopping it.
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I Used to Love Her: The De-Evolution of the Female Emcee (Part 2)
Part 2: All Hail the Queens In the late 1980s, a single brazen female changed the entire game. MC Lyte, the first solo female rapper to release a full album, introduced a sound as smooth as cappuccino, with hardcore lyrics that raised the bar for every serious rapper who wanted to stay in or join…
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I Used to Love Her: The De-Evolution of the Female Emcee (Part 1)
“You just don’t like her because you’re old”, is what the 14 year-old told me as we were debating the quality of Nicki Minaj’s music. Me? Old? I can still beat-box, pop-lock and recite every line of The Message, Sucka MCs, and Paper Thin. So maybe I am old, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.…
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Idris Elba Produces Web Series Developed by HBCU Alum
Here’s a first-look trailer at a new web series executive produced by Idris Elba, titled Milk & Honey, created by Brown Paper Dolls (Dana Gills, Asha Kamali May, and Jeanette McDuffie – all Chicago natives (Spelman, Howard U & FAMU grads) who started the production company in LA. The series, which is headlined by Lance…