Dancers dressed as Tiger Woods, Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo It was time for the ESPN Awards or the ESPY’s in Los Angeles, July 16. I love these because they bring together two of my favorite things — Gorgeous athletes and gorgeous celebrities. Very hot. But the hottest baller of them all was the WNBA’s…

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This is the Naomi Campbell I like to see. The non-violent, sober, lovely, baby cuddling Naomi Campbell, all smiles as she participates in the Africa Rising music, fashion and arts festival earlier this month. These pictures taken of the festival from July 11 – 13 show black folks at their best. While Naomi and fellow…

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Now if you want to know the more personal side of a broke journalist/fiction writer you can check me out at my new spot on MySpace — theblacksnob! There you can friend my alterego, MetaKim, a supped up personification of the diminutive diva I love to hate, La Bella Mafia, Lil’ Kim — Warholed to…

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I honestly don’t know what The Stranger, a Seattle, Wash. alternative weekly newspaper, is going for here, but as a last minute, thrown together effort to dramatize/lampoon/cash-in on the far more interesting and controversial New Yorker cover of Michelle Angela Davis Obama X and her husband Barack Obama = Osama “Hummm? Are they brothers?” I…

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[redlasso id=’c786f936-2ff9-412a-bc4a-3794137b0f7b’] My good friend the Negro Intellectual sent this to me this morning and I had two reactions to this um … heated weepy discussion of the dreaded “N-word:” 1) Sometimes I think this debate would go a lot easier if black people would just explain the “N-word” as being what it is, a…

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I saw this headline when I opened up ye ol’ Yahoo.com: NFL steps up monitoring of players for gang signs NEW YORK (AP)—The NFL is stepping up its monitoring of on-field player activities to ensure that no one is flashing the hand signals of street gangs. The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the league…

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I believe it’s supposed to be Barack Obama as a romance novel cover star. The Great Hope Mongerer as the Great Love Mongerer! I somehow missed it when it came out in Willamette Week more than a month ago, but Gawker introduced me to it Wednesday in a piece on how to make fun of…

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