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HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Media?

Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

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(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...

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Gates Crowley Beer Summit! Part Deux

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news ...

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Arthur Delaney

Gibson Dunn Joins Battle Against D.C.'s Disorderly Conduct Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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The fallout over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for mouthing off at Cambridge police has culminated in high-powered global law ...

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Civil Discourse And The Intentional Conversation

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

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Hoyt Hilsman

What is an Intentional Conversation? Stated simply: It is a structured conversation with no purpose other than the conversation itself.

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It's Better to Be Racist Than Color Blind

David A. Wilson | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

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David A. Wilson

We give weight to the idea of race being negative by considering it taboo. The more we avoid the topic, the discussion, the word, the more power we lend it.

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The Right Shoves Obama Even More Rightward

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Right isn't just dominating the political debate. It has driven Obama -- not to the center; he was never really anywhere else politically -- but to the right of center on some issues.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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Keeping Obama on Message

Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

"Actually, Mr. President..." "David?" "One more thing before we move off the logistics."

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Caption Contest: President Obama, Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley

Rinku Sen | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy

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Rinku Sen

Two months later, the White House has released this photo, with President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, and James Crowley. So we're holding a caption contest. Bonus points if you make us ROTFL.

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Bob Dylan, Skip Gates, and the New Celebrity Culture: Do You Know Who I Am?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

What if there are no celebrities anymore? That is, nobody who's universally recognizable. No truly iconic figures. No absolute stars.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Abby L. Ferber

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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The Death and Possible Rebirth of Racial Profiling

Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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Daniel Cubias

Now that the Beer Summit has resolved any lingering issues over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, we can get back to our perfectly harmonious post-racial society. I, for one, am relieved.

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From 'Birthers' To Death Panels: Blame It On August

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

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Dr. Judith Rich

Does life seem weirder and crazier than normal these days? Do you feel like you've fallen down a rabbit hole or gotten sucked into the twilight zone?...

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Sen. Adams Would Have Arrested Gates Immediately

Brooklyn Paper | Mike McLaughlin | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

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State Sen. Eric Adams inserted himself into the national debate over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates in his own home last month by s...

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GOP Sees Opportunity With White Voters After Gates Saga

Washington Independent | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

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Two weeks after President Obama said that Cambridge, Mass., police had "acted stupidly" by arresting Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates for ar...

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Think Again: The Mainstream Media Opens the Door to Hate

Eric Alterman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media

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Eric Alterman

Brooks Jackson: "As a former CNN reporter, I believe this episode is an embarrassment to CNN... They have an anchor on there saying one thing and their reporters saying quite another."

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What to Do When You Don't Know the Answer

Jerry Weissman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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Jerry Weissman

It's perfectly permissible to admit that you are not the repository of every minute fact known to humankind. No one expects you to be a walking encyclopedia.

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The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment -- or, we should say, re-impoverishment -- of African Americans as a group.

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Mr. President: Turbodog is My Rose Garden Beer Choice

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business

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Jerry Chautin

Turbodog creates a pleasant stimulant-sensation at the back of my throat that metaphorically represents the stimulus needed by the small-business community.

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Aug. 3, 2009, News (?) Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Richard Valeriani

The beer bash culminated 10 days of non-stop media coverage. And Michael Jackson wasn't even involved.

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Arthur Delaney

Disorderly Conduct: Man Arrested After Criticizing Police May Sue

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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The lawyer arrested by D.C. police last weekend for disorderly conduct after chanting "I hate police" plans to fight the charge in court and is puttin...

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White Racism Black Bigotry: The Talk About Race is All Wrong!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Yvonne R. Davis

The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.

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Gates, Crowley, Biden and Obama: A Teachable Moment?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.02.2009 | Living

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Mark Goulston, M.D.

In truth, what maintains the walls between races, generations, genders and globally between nations is more "fearful aggression" than true hostility.

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Gates: Crowley And I May Go To Red Sox Game

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics

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CHILMARK, Mass. — Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sunday joked about his arrest by a white police officer, but also described rec...

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Gates and Crowley Share a White House Beer - President Obama Declares an End to Racism

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

With the four men seated at a round table with their frosty mugs of beers, and with Biden and Obama with uprolled sleeves, the picture could not have looked more fake and insincere.

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