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Dark Girls: OWN Documentary Spotlights Skin Color
By Tika Sumpter Tika Sumpter doesn’t consider herself a rarity in Hollywood, even if many of her fans do. Sumpter has spent the last 10 years building an impressive résumé that includes roles on popular television shows such as Gossip Girl, The Game, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Duke, colorism, commentary, Daily Beast, Dark Girls, documentary, television, Tika Sumpter, Tyler Perry
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Bill Cosby: A plague called apathy
By Bill Cosby In terms of health, two things stand out that Mayor Bloomberg has jumped into to find some kind of remedy that will help cut back on illness — the abuse of sodas and tobacco. No 1: Smoking … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Cosby, commentary, health, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Tobacco
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The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
By Julian Assange “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in … Continue reading
The ‘pay to grieve’ 9/11 museum is a national disgrace
By Sally Regenhard The world’s most expensive memorial — the National September 11th Memorial and Museum — nearly became a fiscal flatliner, it was learned this week. If it weren’t for billionaire mayor and 9/11 memorial-museum chairman Mike Bloomberg’s “loan” of … Continue reading
The Fight Over Gun Control Has Revealed America’s New Civil War
By Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, gun control, gun violence, Harry Reid, Heidi Heitkamp, Mark Begich, Mark Pryor, Max Baucus, politics, Robert Reich, Senate
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Never Say ‘Never Again’
Our foolish obsession with stopping the next attack. By Juliette Kayyem There will be no politicians at the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. They are no longer invited. Organizers of the memorial have now … Continue reading
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David Brooks’ bigoted rant
By David Sirota Since when did the New York Times get into the business of publishing old-school bigoted rants deriding whole populations and cultures as cognitively incapacitated? This is a pressing question considering David Brooks’ stunning column today on the … Continue reading →