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President Barack Obama Signs the Health Care Reform Bill

• March 23, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, American Politics, Black People, Class, Health, Health Care/The Public Option, Obama Administration, Race and the Health Care Debate
Tags: Celebration, Common Sense, Health Care Reform Bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Marcelas Owens, President Barack Obama, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Vice President Joe Biden

Steve McQueen As He Was…

• March 23, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, History, Sexuality, Television, Women
Tags: "Bullitt", "Sic transit gloria mundi", "The Bodyguard", "The Great Escape", "The Honeymoon Machine", "The Sand Pebbles", "Wanted: Dead or Alive", Diana Ross, Filipino American, John Dominis, Kevin Costner, King of Cool, Lalo Schiffrin, LIFE Magazine, McQueen, Mesothelioma, Mr White Cool, Rebellion, Steve McQueen, The Huffington Post, Whitney Houston

Tyler Perry Announces Film Cast for Ntozake Shange’s Play, “For Colored Girls”

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Posted in Acting, Arts, Black People, Books, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Film, Health, History, Love, Ntozake Shange, Race, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "Black Voices", "For Colored Girls, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuff", "Shadow and Act", Actresses, Berkeley, Berkeley CA, California, East Bay, Janet Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Kerry Washington, Kimberly Elise, Macy Gray, Mariah Carey, Ntozake Shange, Oakland, Oakland CA, Phylicia Rashad, Roles, The Seventies, The Women, Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg

Dr. Conrad Murray Accused of Interrupting MJ’s CPR to Sanitize Room and Hide Drugs (w/Update)

• March 23, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Drug Overdoses, Health, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Michael Jackson, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, The Jackson 5/Michael Jackson, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "The Early Show", Adam Streisand, African Americans, Alberto Alvarez, Attorney General Jerry Brown, Blacks, California, Carl Douglas, CBS, Conspiracy Theories, CPR, Dr. Conrad Murray, Drip, Drugs, Ed Chernoff, Grace Rwaramba, Harry Smith, Involuntary Manslaughter, Katherine Jackson, Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles County District Attorney, Michael Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson, Paris Jackson, Prince Michael Jackson, Security Guard, TMZ.com, Tom Mesereau, Vials

Trailer: “French Hip-Hop and African Immigration”/Rap Français et Immigration (Sous Titré)

• March 23, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Africans, Class, Cultural History, France, History, Music, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "French Hip-hop and African Immigration", African Women, Anti-Immigration, Dr. Maboula Soumahoro, Dr. Naison, French Hip-Hop, Immigration, Kalamu ya Salaam, Karima Zerrou, NeoGriot, Projet d'Histoire des Africains Américains du Bronx, Rap Français et Immigration (Sous Titré), Tala Entertainment Services, The Bronx African American History Project

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