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  • The rift between African Americans and Africans

    By Lola Adesioye

    9:08 AM on 07/10/2009

    Since living in America I've discovered a deep-rooted, and often unspoken, prejudice against Africans within the African American community. Some time ago, as I sat on a train from lower Manhattan up to Harlem, I overheard a strange conversation. An African American woman talked animatedly with her friends about a...

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  • Will a black president make any difference to Africa?

    Will a black president make any difference to Africa?

    By Lola Adesioye

    8:05 AM on 07/10/2009

    A Ghanaian jersey vendor sells shirts depicting President Obama (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Africans were filled with joy and high expectations when Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, was elected president of the United States of America. On a trip to Nigeria, the country that my family hails from, shortly before...

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  • Memorial humanized King of Pop

    Memorial humanized King of Pop

    By Lola Adesioye

    5:27 PM on 07/07/2009

    Marlon Jackson, left, speaks as Janet Jackson listens (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool) Everyone, including myself, was anticipating that Michael Jackson's public memorial would be something of a star-studded circus. I'd envisioned a paparazzi-fest. I'd imagined crazed fans rushing to drape themselves over his casket. I'd had - honestly - nightmarish...

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  • Michael Jackson: man or merchandise?

    Michael Jackson: man or merchandise?

    By Lola Adesioye

    9:59 AM on 07/01/2009

    It's been less than a week since Michael Jackson died yet those seeking to profit from his life, and indeed death...

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  • On Michael Jackson, Obama is tone deaf

    By Lola Adesioye

    4:47 PM on 06/26/2009

    Al Sharpton said it best: "Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color. Way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama, Michael did with music what they later did in sports, in politics and in television." If there is such a thing as 'post-racial', Jackson...

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  • Reverend Wright forgets that Jesus was one of 'them Jews'

    By Lola Adesioye

    8:33 AM on 06/12/2009

    When Reverend Wright spoke about "them Jews" who are keeping him away from speaking to President Obama, he waded into dangerous territory. With those words, he waded into the territory where people go when they want to say something ignorant or offensive about certain groups of people. We've all heard...

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