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Brennan Williams

Anthony Hamilton: Hopefully Bobbi Kristina Can Make Wiser Decisions

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 03.01.2012

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Known for belting out soulful lyrics set against a nostalgic sound, Anthony Hamilton is working to inspire today's youth through his affiliation with ...

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Brennan Williams

Kenny Lattimore Returns '2 Cool' On New Album

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 02.06.2012

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For Kenny Lattimore, authenticity is about reaching his audience through song. And he is now reaching out to that audience in other ways. The Grammy-n...

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The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team

Michele Somerville | Posted 08.08.2011

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Michele Somerville

The way to make genuine change in a system that is failing hundreds of thousands of children is to revitalize the weakest schools.

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Obama's Nobel Money: President Chooses Charities To Receive Prize

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and surv...

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The Black List: Volume Three

Eleanor Moonier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eleanor Moonier

The interviewees' candidness in HBO's The Black List: Vol. 3, along with the aesthetic simplicity of the film, achieves something strikingly authentic -- more oral history than celebrity interview.

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Outraged Lily-White GOP More Upset with Sen. Reid than Prominent Black Leaders

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

According to the 99.5% lily-white Republican Party, these poor black folk defending Reid are either too naive or forgiving or both to understand just how offensive and insensitive his remarks were.

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Harry's "Washington Gaffe"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

With the exception of one poorly-chosen word, it seems to me to fit the classic definition of a "Washington gaffe" -- accidentally speaking a bald truth, and having to immediately apologize for such unseemliness.

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Russ Baker

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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