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Dick Cheney's Spine Surgery to Install Much-Needed Spine in Formerly Spineless Body

Ben Berkon | Posted 09.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Comedy, Article, News, Spine Surgery, Politics, Black People, Health Care, Republicans, Douche, Spineless, Economy, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

The surgery is a more simple procedure than one would think. It merely entails slicing an opening in the patient's back, and placing a spine where normal, politically-sane, and spined-humans have a spine

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A Message from the Average Black Person

Elon James White | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Black People, Twib, Elon James White, Soulja Boy, The Truth, Barack Obama, Living News
Elon James White

After reading this, the next time you talk to a Black person you can feel comfortable in now knowing with every fiber of your being that you have no clue what they think or feel based on their skin color.

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The Movie They Didn't Want You to See

Stacy Peralta | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nazi Germany, Crips and Bloods, Baron Davis, Sundance Film Festival, AK 47, Beverly Hills, Film, Gangs, Los Angeles, African American, Movies, Black People, Steve Luczo, Documentary, Sundance, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Stacy Peralta, Entertainment News
Stacy Peralta

The more time I spent with gang members of Bloods and Crips, the more I began to see a far different America than the America I was raised in.

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Young and Black in the Age of Obama

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, Youth, Race, Obama Inauguration, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Black People, President Obama, African Americans, Obama Young People, Politics News
Sara Haile-Mariam

These truths are self-evident, but are they fully realized? No. They are not. Complacency is what we have to fear, it's what this generation must fight.

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Black AIDS Day

Gloria Reuben | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Whites, Latinos, Poverty, Statistics, US Poverty, National Black Aids Awareness Day, Siecus, AIDs Epidemic, Hiv, Race, Barack Obama, Sex Education, HIV/AIDS, Black People, Education, AIDS Awareness, Blacks, Caucasians, Health, Disease, Sex, Poverty and Health, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African-Americans, African Americans, Antiretroviral Drugs, Politics News
Gloria Reuben

We must turn a critical eye inward, and face the fact that HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the US. The statistics are startling.

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Living News
Jaemin Kim

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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Fox News Doesn't Care About Black People

Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Black People, Fox News Inauguration, Fox News Racist, Barack Obama Inauguration, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Race, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Media News
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer

At Fox News, inauguration day looked like the first afternoon a Negro used the local country club tennis courts following a legal settlement.

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Gay is not the New Black

Irene Monroe | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black People, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, California, Racial Tensions, Prop 8, Prop 8 Black Voters, California Prop 8, Race, African-Americans, African Americans, California Proposition 8, Politics News
Irene Monroe

The Prop 8 debate has caused polarization between white gay community and African Americans. Saying "Gay is the new black" poses the problems for many African Americans

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This Era of Black Women and HIV/AIDS

Irene Monroe | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Black People, Black Women, HIV/AIDS, Gwen Ifill, African-Americans, World AIDS Day, Living News
Irene Monroe

Seventeen percent of the U.S. teen population is African American. In 2004, 70 percent of all teens testing HIV-positive were black.

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White Pundits: Make Some Black Friends Before Opining on Obama Effect

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Black People, Maureen Dowd, Washington DC, New York Times, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, African Americans, Media News
Gail Vida Hamburg

In her Nov 8, '08 column, Maureen Dowd attempted to elucidate the stunning new history of our young country by talking about what Obama meant to African Americans.

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Obama, In Black and White

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black People, Obama Family, Race, Ann Dunham, Obama Parents, White People, Barack Obama, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

This is not simply the victory of one black man in America; it is the victory of American tolerance and integration, where black can marry white, where barriers are broken.

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What Obama Can Learn from The Wire

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Black People, The Wire, Television, Tv, War on Drugs, White People, Barack Obama, Entertainment News
Casey Gane-McCalla

If anything is clear from The Wire, it is that the War on Drugs is a failed war, one that only keeps the cycle of addiction, poverty and violence going.

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This Week in Blackness Episode 12: President-Elect OBAMA

Elon James White | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black People, Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Joe Biden, Election Results, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Presidential Results, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Election 2008 coverageHuffPost Election Reaction, Obama President, Presidential Election, Election Analysis, Politics News
Elon James White

The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 12th installment of the web series. Comedian Elon James White has a few spaztastic moments after hearing of the Obama win.

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Jesse's Obama Problem: He Needs Barack More Than Barack Needs Him

Eric Deggans | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black People, Politics, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, Presidential Election, Fox News, Media, Race, Barack Obama Jesse Jackson, Obama Jesse Jackson, Politics News
Eric Deggans

If tradition civil rights leaders are stuck on the outside when Obama gets elected president, what does that mean for them and for the struggle to free black folks from oppression?

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