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'In Living Color' 20 years later still a stone cold classic
8:13 AM on 04/15/2010
OPINION - 'In Living Color' still pushes the boundaries of censorship, just as it did back in the days of Hammer pants and high-top fades...
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Will Michael Jackson's new music be a thriller for fans?
9:00 AM on 03/17/2010
OPINION - Would he have done something different? Did he mean for that note to be there? Would he have approved this final mix?...
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Why audiences should opt-out of 'Cop Out'
2:14 PM on 02/26/2010
REVIEW - The forced and awkward feel of 'Cop Out' makes you long for the days when the action-comedy blend went down more smoothly. ..
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Slideshow: The 25 most influential albums by African-Americans
11:14 AM on 02/16/2010
These albums introduced new textures and ideas into pop culture...
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'Soul Train' 40 years later: Appealing to Americans on both sides of the track
12:15 PM on 02/05/2010
OPINION - 'Soul Train' was a beacon, beaming raw, uncut, unapologetic black style and swagger into homes around the country...
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Mexico may ban criminality in pop culture; is the US next?
8:17 AM on 01/25/2010
OPINION - What if artists who inundate us with toxic music paid a price for it?
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How technology killed the talent in urban music
9:50 AM on 01/08/2010
OPINION - Technological changes in the last decade made it so that you could fit your entire music collection, thousands of songs, into a contraption...
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Top 10 R&B albums we slept on in 2009
8:00 AM on 12/25/2009
OPINION - In 2009, it wasn't easy to catch wind of the latest urban releases, given that mainstream media only covered a fraction of them.
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'This Is It' ain't all that
8:00 AM on 10/27/2009
OPINION - Michael Jackson, he king of pop, probably wouldn't have put out such a pointless set as his latest This Is It album.
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With "I Look to You" who will wanna dance with Whitney?
7:00 AM on 09/03/2009
OPINION - Perhaps the time couldn't be better for a mighty comeback from one of the most celebrated and overrated pop stars of the last 30 years.
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Brewski diplomacy won't wash down racism
12:59 PM on 07/28/2009
Unemployment among African Americans, which some may partly attribute to racism, is now at Depression-era levels. Racial profiling and police brutality continue to be routine occurrences in poor communities of color. Yet mainstream media tell us we're in a "post-racial America" following the election of the country's first black president....
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