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Black men need to wake up to the facts on our women's health
10:00 AM on 10/14/2009
OPINION - Most men understand that breast cancer and domestic violence represent forms of crisis in the lives of black women, but I'd like to suggest that our dismissive attitude towards women's health care issues represent a form of abuse.
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How Kanye saved the VMAs
9:19 AM on 09/14/2009
VIDEO - There was no risk in having Kanye West act a fool, because it is what we have come to expect from him. A fair amount of people will grant him his eccentricities, because of his genius...
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Tyler Perry reflects black culture but some hate what they see
9:34 AM on 09/11/2009
OPINION - Tyler Perry has placed a mirror up to our collective image and if we don't like what we see, we need to move beyond simply complaining about what Perry is doing...
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Obama flunks his "teachable moment"
8:39 AM on 07/31/2009
We all want a president who takes the time to hear about and understand the everyday struggles we face. But that is exactly what the president failed to do when he took up the issue of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a Cambridge police officer....
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The crisis for survival shifts from violence to healthcare
5:37 AM on 07/22/2009
A generation ago, when crack cocaine was the scourge of black communities and hip-hop still wavered between decrying its impact and singing hosannas to the underground economy it enabled, one of the common narratives about black life regarded the mortality rates of young black men. Given the seeming randomness of...
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