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By JD McCallum I am always leery of people who make a habit, or worse, a living, telling people what they want to hear. When it comes to Black people telling each other what they want to hear, I especially grow suspect. I think of folk who have told us for so long that everything…
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Because Black Snobs have problems too, welcome to the Snob family writer, actress, spiritual guru and comedic Jill-of-all-trades, Nia Orms and her many, many, many different personalities.Featured in her one-woman show Please Take a Number, Nia and her multiple personas are here to help with your woes as the resident advice columnist(s) here at The…
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When she’s not having lunch with former First Lady Nancy Reagan, she’s making changes to her White House staff. And when she’s not doing that she’s trekking off with her girls to meet the hubby in France. Nothing like a little D-Day commemoration. Never a dull moment for the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The
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From HuffPo: Newt Gingrich is not known for his verbal self-restraint. But even he thinks he went too far when he called Judge Sonia Sotomayor a racist in a Twitter post. In a Human Events column, the former Republican House Leader wrote: “My initial reaction was strong and direct — perhaps too strong and too
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This June 1, 2009 combination image shows various General Motors automobiles new and old. General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, culminating the collapse of the automaker that once symbolized American global industrial might. The filing in the same New York court that approved a speedy restructuring for Chrysler aims to allow GM to re-emerge…
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The Washington Post continues its “Voices of Power” series with members of the Obama administration, this time talking to Valerie Jarrett. Read the stories here and here.
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Was skimming through Gawker and found this story by Hamilton Nolan regarding the saga of self-proclaimed Roman Catholic Priestess/small town newspaper reporter Brenda Lee and her effort to personally give a letter to President Obama. She was writing to ask him to hold the line against gay marriage. As you can tell from the photo,…