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  • … Will her supporters follow her lead? I realize that Grandma Moses here will probably write-in Deputy Dog before she votes for an “inadequate black male,” but what about the rest of crowd? The Joan Walsh of Salon.com crowd. (I don’t know if she backed Clinton, but she was one of her biggest defenders in…

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  • CNN (via The Associated Press) is reporting that the Hillster is going to tip her hat to Obama and give up the ghost this evening. Thank you, Jebus! Sen. Hillary Clinton will acknowledge Tuesday night that her rival, Sen. Barack Obama, will have enough delegates to capture the Democratic presidential nomination, officials tell The Associated…

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  • I’m back. I got some sleep. I ate banana pudding. I hung out with my best friend Tiff-a-rooney. I wasn’t quite successful in completely clearing my head, but I don’t think I’m going to put the hurt on anyone any time soon. As you could tell, I actually posted next to nothing for four whole…

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  • The Last Stand

    Above: Custer’s Last Stand, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws committee meeting, last picture is Jim Roosevelt, Alexis Horman and Howard Dean, helming the committee meeting. (Reuters) Hillary Clinton fought the Rules and Bylaws Committee and the committee won. Now what? Nothing. That’s what. Now who’s going to be the one to tell the…

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  • In light of the recent melodrama over Alice Walker and her daughter Rebecca Walker, I thought it would be interesting to explore the relationships between black women and their mothers. Therefore I’m soliciting personal stories from readers about their relationships with their mothers for an upcoming article I’m writing for the blog. If you’re interested…

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  • Taking a trip down dusty memory lane I was alarmed to see how random my looks were in high school. On one hand I could be very whimsical and fetching. On the other I looked like a cross between “Blossom” and “Ugly Betty.” Granted, the clothes I was wearing from the 1990s were in style…

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  • Rebecca Walker, daughter of “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker, recently divulged her true feelings about her mother’s ardent feminism and their estranged relationship. I first read about it on The Ultraviolet Underground and Okayplayer. In a column written for Great Britian’s The Mail, Walker talks about being abandoned and neglected by her mother who…

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