KJ is hitching his matrimonial and political star to controversial Washington school head Michelle Rhee:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/11/michelle_rhee_kevin_johnson_pu.html

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Both Fort Hood responders were heroic, but last week’s media reports were in error:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/massive-media-fail-female_b_355600.html

Sgt. Mark Todd should have received credit, and had his image and quotes transmitted all over the world (not that he sought any attention).

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Former Miss California with nude teen sex tape was snarky and defensive during the entire interview:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/11/11/lkl.prejean

She wouldn’t even admit that the “conversvative” media pick on women such as Secretary of State Clinton and Justice Sona Sotomayor. Stay classy, Miss Prejean.

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Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly murders 12 at Texas military base:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/texas.fort.hood.shootings/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/texas.fort.hood.shootings/index.html

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Star of David tattoo, anyone?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/28/new.and.emergent.jews/index.html

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A couple recent articles ask if monogamy is even realistic?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/28/monogamy.realistic.today/index.html

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10263372/As-Phillips-falls-from-grace,-we-need-to-alter-rules#at

Whitlock’s joking, right?

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New book chronicles those who helped pave the way for today’s Black pro football players:

http://www.baystatebanner.com/arts42-2009-10-22

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I was in Nashville Oct. 14-19 for the National Trust for Historic Preservation conference. Steve McNair’s name surfaced during the little bit of local news I saw, and a conversation with some locals. Now, details of his final hours emerge:

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He will always have his detractors, and even today, conservative talk show hosts ask their audiences if he is deserving, but today, 45 years after Dr. Martin Luther King was similarly honored, President Obama is awarded The Nobel Prize for Peace:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html

Is it true his nomination was entered last February 1? He had done much to unite and foment inclusion by then. And what matter is it whether a columnist or a talk show listener feels he deserves it, the committee neither asked them, nor will they revoke the Prize based upon U.S. public opinion. If that were the case, how do you think those who disagreed with MLK felt when he won?

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Why has America’s “dirty little secret” been swept under the scientific and sociological carpet for so long?

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/one-familys-roots-a-nations-history/?hp

To most American Blacks, it’s no news flash that we have white ancestry. It is surprising to some that the “Indian-looking great-grandmother” was likely a biracial woman. It was more pleasant to discuss Cherokee or Seminole roots than to acknowledge powerlessness (see Thurmond, Strom) and rape.

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http://www.theroot.com/views/michelle-s-great-great-great-granddaddy-and-yours

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New book explores life of the greatest prizefighter who ever lived:

http://www.baystatebanner.com/arts41-2009-10-08

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Prominent producer-actor was young victim:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/06/tyler.perry.abuse.precious/index.html

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“Late Night” host is contrite on air:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/05/david.letterman.apology/index.html

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Gourmet is shutting its doors, and EBONY and JET are up for sale:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/05/news/companies/gourmet_magazine/index.htm?postversion=2009100513

Paper institutions falling by the wayside, along with major metropolitan daily newspapers:

http://www.theroot.com/views/farewell-ebony-you-earned-your-retirement

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Some of you are familiar with my research on early Black baseball in New England:

http://www.baystate-banner.com/archives/stories/2006/04/042706-03.htm

I was unaware of this news:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/27/auction_throws_curve_into_effort_to_honor_negro_league_star_jackman/

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“Late Night” host has been stalked, threatened, and now blackmailed:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/02/letterman.past.incidents/index.html

Why Dave, and not Jay, Conan or Ellen?

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Why are some so pleased that America’s Olympic athletes and their relatives and fans will not be on home soil in 2016, and that Chicago will not be able to benefit from the new construction, job growth, related revenue/tourism and housing that inevitably results?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/03/martin.olympics.defeat/index.html

Why, because they tie Chicago’s bid to President Obama, of course. When did it became de rigeur to root against the home team (during the Bush years of the invasion of Iraq, critical Americans were deemed “unpatriotic”).

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First the Birthers, then “You Lied”, and now this unpatriotic sentiment:

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/weekly-standard-newsroom-erupts-into-cheers-at-news-of-olympics.php?ref=fpa

Can’t some people separate national benefit from partisan (or bigoted) politics?

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Why would an accomplished, educated, middle-aged man with a great job in Manhattan risk everything he has to extort a fellow entertainer?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/02/letterman.extortion/index.html

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Pele beats Obama’s:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/02/olympics.2016/index.html

You had to know it wouldn’t be Madrid- no way a Western European city was going to follow London. Tokyo was a longshot, having hosted a Games in many of our lifetimes. Chitown bowed to a continent that has never played host. Rio could use the new dorms, parks, and facilities that come with hosting (and the 2007 Pan Am Games were held there).

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