DMX
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DMX

The Fine Line Between Entertainment & Exploitation

I’ve always liked DMX’s persona. That, of course, comes with some qualifiers. I had to ignore the violent and misogynistic imagery in most of his lyrics, which I was much more willing to do in X’s heyday a decade ago, than now.  I liked his music, like it still, for the growling voice over Swizz…

Rand Paul
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howard university

Rand Paul & the GOP: Searching for A Black Friend

Big week in conservative outreach to the black community! Rand Paul went to the Harvard of historical black colleges – Howard University – to school a roomful of already educated black students on how President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and that all of the NAACP’s founders were Republicans. (Some were also white! And really light-skinned Negroes!!! And Ida B. Wells!!!!) Of course, all the students (and me and…

Sexual harrassment
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opinion

Have You Ever Been Sexually Harassed?

President Obama’s recent quip about California Attorney General Camala Harris “best-looking attorney general in the country” and Adria Richards dismissal after tweeting a picture of two men making sexual jokes  has reignited a conversation about sexual harassment.  For clarity, by no means, do I think Harris was sexually harassed by the President’s remark. Technically, they…

SUZY LEE WEISS
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education

For Middle-Class White Girls When Being Privileged Isn’t Enough

When I read the Wall Street Journal op-ed written by graduating high school senior Suzy Lee Weiss, I was immediately floored by her intelligence, fearlessness and sheer commitment to exposing the discriminatory inequities inherent in the college admission process. Many students rejected by their dream universities — in her case, Princeton, Yale, Vanderbilt and the…

Couple
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career

Relationship For Love…And Power?

The recent surge of women in the professional ranks has affected more than the income gap between the two sexes. Premeditated by the initial lack of income balance, the closing chasm continues to shape a new generation of relationships formed around new rules. One of the more ballyhooed consequences of women increasing earning power is…