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Decades Are Only "From Hell" If We Make Them

Will Bunch | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Time Magazine, Ronald Reagan, Decades, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, 9/11, 2000s, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Peak Oil, Financial Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, 1970s, Torture, Politics News
Will Bunch

In the 2010s, I don't think we can afford to sit around watching CNBC and waiting for the Decade Gods to automatically turn everything green as some sort of karmic balance for the awfulness of the 2000s.

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Poet Pride: A Charm City Classic on Film

Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movment, New York, Baltimore, 1990's, Muggsy Bogues, Hbo, Drugs, 1980's, War on Drugs, Basketball, Film, The Wire, Carmelo Anthony, Len Bias, USA Today, Reggie Lewis, Chicago, Documentary, Boston Celtics, Rudy Gay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nba, 1970s, Entertainment News
Timothy Cooper

A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afrika Bambaataa, Tommy Boy Records, Rapper's Delight, Spray Paint, Urban Culture, South Bronx, Salt -N- Pepa, Female Rappers, Music, Mc's, 1970's, Spinderella, Angie Stone, Planet Rock, Aerosol Paint, Africa, Graffiti, Soul Music, Martial Arts, African-American, Women, Sugar Hill Gang, Rap, Brazil, Sugar Hill Records, Hip-Hop, Mc Lyte, Jazzy Joyce, Dancing, 1981, Microphone, Breakdancing, Soul Sonic Force, Capoiera, Dj, The Sequence, 1979, Monica Lynch, Sylvia Robinson, Turntables, Costumes, Black Women, Clothing, Harris Publications, Whitney Museum of Art, Business, Vh1, Stylist, Hip Hop Records, The Oscars, Photographers, Spotlight, Image Makers, Editors, DJ Beverly Bond, Publicist, Behind the Scenes, Magazines, Music Careers, Queen Latifah, Bet, Hip-Hop Films, Fox Network, Denise Dee Barnes, Wendy Williams, Female Graffiti Artists, Fetish, Art, Mtv, Choreographers, Subways, Living Single, Pump It Up!, Hot 97, Multi-Tasking, The Source Magazine, The Wendy Williams Show, Photography, Guidence, Murals, Mentoring, 1990's, Cover Girl, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flip Mode Squad, Images, Apparel, Wild Style, Lady Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Eve, New York City, Music Videos, Dancers, Black Girls Rock Inc!, XXL Magazine, Costume Design, Entrepreneurers, Vibe Magazine, Art Museums, Viacom, June Ambrose, Leadership, Alumni, Jennifer Lopez, Elements, Michelle Spaise, Minneapolis, TV Shows, Curator, J-Lo, Exhibitions, Rosie Perez, Making the Band, Future, Past, B-Girl Be, Living Color, Festivals, B-Girl, Painting, Tv, Fly Girls, Unleash, Theresa Sweetland, Politics, Video, Political Activism, Female Artists, Art Festival, Laurie Ann Gibson, Education, Tv Sitcoms, Spike Lee, Midwest, Deanna Cummings, Minnesota, Expression, Mama, Television, Activism, Mama Said Knock U Out, Brewing, Do the Right Thing, Concerts, Lauri Lyons, Social Activism, Visual Art, Women in Hip-Hop, Mother, Communication, Intermedia Arts, Sculpture, Commissions, faith47, Sound, Cinema, Music Downloads, Arts Education, Installations, Mixed Media, Art Commistions, Roxanne Shante, Martha Cooper, Marketplace, Fashion, Museums, Art World, Block Parties, Albums, Textiles, October, Youth, Film, Streets, Records, September, Girls, Youth Programs, Cd's, Recording Technology, History, Technology, College, Balls, Music History, Belle, Music School, Universities, Money, Comeback, Scholarship, Undergraduate, School, Diploma, Language, Hip-Hop Studies, Fellowship, Mcnally Smith School of Music, Recording, Music Business, Author, Fab Five Freddie, Flag International, Video Music Box, Yo! Mtv Raps, Flag an American Story, The Bridge, Ralph Mcdaniels, Vinyl Records, Prince, Juxtaposition Arts, Stefskills, Sarah White, Jennifer Rasinski, Corinne Santiago, C-Rocka, Keegan Xavi, Jessica Kitzman, Janelle Olson, Toofly, Tiffany Smith, Niz, Lichiban, Katrina Knutson, Jamel Shabbaz, Tamiko Mitchel, Erotica 67, Motel 7, Ladykfever, Monica Kelly, Amanda Lopez, Abeni Garrett, Desdamona, Catiesha Pierson, B-Fresh, Wendy Williams Show, Alice Mizrachi, Niz Graphics, Kanye West, Chanel Kennebrew, Shannon Joyce, Manifesto Festival, VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, MTV VMA, Michaela Angela Davis, Essence Magazine, Dream Hampton, Amsterdam, London, South Africa, Charlie Ahearn, Henry Chalfant, Japan, Jamaica, Walker Art Center, Toronto, France, Cuba, In the Frame, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, Zimbabwe, Barcelona, Argentina, San Francisco, Represent Inc., International Center of Photography, Berlin, Germany, Belgium, Spraycan Art, James Prigoff, Puerto Rico, Powerhouse, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Norway, Paris, Star Tribune, Kulture Klub, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bronx, Zulu Nation, Hip-Hop Degree, Kimora Lee Simmon, Baby Phat, U.K., Russell Simmons, Phat Farm, Getty Images, Icp, Somalia, Somalis, Bling a Planet Rock, Raquel Cepeda, Entertainment News
Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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The Shelf Talker: Disco, Beer and Rubix Cubes

Kevin Smokler | Posted 08.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Newyork, Man Booker Prize, 1980s, Books, Wildstyle, 1970s, Beer, Booker Prize, Media News
Kevin Smokler

The nominees for the Man Booker Prize, the UK's equivalent of the Best Book Oscar, have been announced. Though we love lists/awards/hall-of-fames of all variety we want hide under the sofa when they land in our laps.

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Hair: The Tribe Has Spoken

Jon Chattman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, War, Tony Awards, Kacie Sheik, Broadway, Hippies, Concert, Peace, Tribe, Tom Hanks, Shakespeare in the Park, Ato Blankson-Wood, Vietnam, Hair, Billboard, Steel Burkhardt, Conan, Love, 1970s, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

The stars of Hair know how lucky they've been to experience a journey that started in a concert in Central Park last summer: they've scored the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket in landing this gig.

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Jackson's Death Means We're All Older Now and Need to Sober Up

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drug Addiction, John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, The Moonwalk, I'll Be There, Charlies Angel's, Prescription Drugs, 1980's, Farrah Fawcett, Heroine, Charlies Angels, 1970's, Janis Joplin, ABC, "Thriller, Ed McMahon, Ratings, Fred Astaire, The Burning Bed, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Camero, The Partridge Family, Baby Boomers, Wacko Jacko, Thriller, Tabloids, American Bandstand, Martin Luther King Jr., Fat Albert, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Rock With You, Robert F. Kennedy, Celebrity Worship, Soul Train, Cnn, Sideshow, Jimi Hendrix, Cocaine, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett has hit us near-baby boomers and full-on baby boomers with a rock and roll punch to the gut we weren't ready for.

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The Love You Save: Michael and the Rear-Guard Boomers

Will Bunch | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Beatles, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, 1980s, Led Zeppelin, Woodstock, Rolling Stones, Barack Obama, 1970s, Micahel Jackson Music, Michael Jackson Dead, Entertainment News
Will Bunch

The Jackson 5 and their strings of hits like "The Love You Save" was the first pop music that truly belonged to us -- the rear-guard Baby Boomers.

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YouTube and MySpace Leaves "No Space" for a Generation

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Ipod, Baby Boomers, Myspace, Exhibitionism, Burning Bras, The War in Iraq, Cell Phone Cameras, Psychologists, Madison Avenue, Self-Esteem, Text Messaging, 1970's, The Vietnam War, Dick Cavett, Character, 1960's, Boob Jobs, Richard Nixon, Apathy, Techno Babysitters, Walter Cronkite, Generation, Youtube, Self-Expression, Therapists, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

A generation suckled on the need to be constantly seen and heard leaves a generation that is heard and seen, but doesn't listen much.

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The Day the Music Died

Michael Pattison | Posted 03.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Texas, The 1970s, Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Folk Music, Waylon Jennings, Singing, American Pie, Music, Lubbock Texas, Rock and Roll, 1970s, Don McLean, Entertainment News
Michael Pattison

Don McLean saw February 3, 1959 as The Day the Music Died, but really it was the day the legend of Buddy Holly was born.

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style

Read More: The 1970s, Stds, Normalcy, Queens, Gypsy, Joan of Arc, Arthur Rimbaud, Teenage Girls, Dostoyevsky, Gypsies, Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Religion, James Joyce, Iconoclasts, High School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Penicillin, Reading, 1970s, Teenagers, Style News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"

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President Obama Must Free Leonard Peltier

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Industry, Native Americans, Leonard Peltier, Obama, Justice, Prison Inmates, Imprisonment, Crime, Prisoners, Fbi, Amnesty International, Criminal Justice, Unfair Sentencing, Criminal Justice System, Political Prisoners, Jail, Prisons, 1970s, Politics News
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.

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Guys and Dolls

Stephanie Fairyington | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Growing Up, Webkinz, Children, Boys, Parenting, Feminism, Femininity, Social Activism, Gender, Girls, Marlo Thomas, Free to Be You and Me, Kids, Masculinity, Gender Issues, 1970s, Good Morning America, Family, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Living News
Stephanie Fairyington

The success of web-based interactive dolls like Webkinz indicates that boys respond to toys that tap into their fatherly instincts; for the month of October alone, boys made up 36% of the site's visitors.

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McCain's 'Life On Mars' Is The Real Thing -- And Much More Scary

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: William Ayers, John McCain, Richard Nixon, 1970s, Barack Obama, Spiro Agnew, Politics News
Art Brodsky

The 1970s mindset is spreading beyond simply the presidential campaign in truly scary ways. As a result of the McCain/Palin campaign, the chicken academicians politicians have been been brought back.

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Bill Ayers, Blackberries and John McCain

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, John McCain, Weather Underground, Presidential Debates, Blackberries, 1970s, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The Bill Ayers issue underscores just how out of touch John McCain is with the country he seeks to lead. It is also, for many Americans, just another way for John McCain to tell us he is old.

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The Monomania of Economists

Jeff Madrick | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Milton Friedman, Unions, Inflation, 1970s, Inlfationary Expectations, Business News
Jeff Madrick

The anti-inflationary policy makers are preaching a simple ideology. To be more kind, they want to make the mistake of being too tight, not too loose.

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