Foxy Brown is out of Rikers. Rapper Foxy Brown is out of jail. Family and fans greeted Brown Friday outside Rikers Island as she was released from the jail after serving an eight-month sentence. “The first place I want to go is church. I’ve got to get on my knees,” said Brown. Instead, Brown went…

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So you all know I didn’t do a perfect job of my blog vacation. I did blog. Sometimes more than twice a day. But I also got lots of sleep and exercise. I got my hair twisted up, so for the first time in months it looks “manageable.” That has to count for something. But…

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ABC Debate, photo by the Associated Press I had to hear what the hype was about. Everyone was talking about ABC News’ Democratic Debate, promoted to death as a “Rumble in the Jungle” sort of bonanza and I didn’t watch it because … there had been more than 18 Democratic Debates already. I just didn’t…

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The AfroSpear is all over this story about former Republican US Congressman JC Watts is launching a black news network in conjunction with Comcast. Now, JC and I don’t usually agree but I am one-thousand-percent behind the brother if he can pull this off. It’s been tried before and has crashed and burned. Here’s the…

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Some gorgeous men are hard to find. In Hollywood and on the internet they’re damn near impossible. (L to R) Adam Rodriguez of CSI: Miami, Michael Ealy of Sleeper Cell, Ian Anthony Hale of Surface and Blair Underwood of everything, but is best known for LA Law. Dear fellow Black Snobs, As some of you…

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Sadly … no, not sadly … nonchalantly, I missed the Democratic debate on Wednesday. All those car crash reviews in the press gave the impression that an old man and a former member of the Clinton Administration couldn’t conduct a mindful, provocative debate. “The nation has witnessed, first hand, George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson for…

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Are you calling Harold Ford Jr. with death threats? I find it unlikely, but if he weren’t down with the DLC I’d be calling some other threats of the non-political kind. I ran a new DailyKos column today, but it was a “new-to-you” column. I originally ran my piece on those poor, pitiful black delegates…

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