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Cord Asks, Am I Black Enough for Ya?
via Stereohyped by Cord Jefferson on March 27, 2008
On my first day at Stereohyped, I was asked by some readers what qualified me to work at the Web’s most incisive black blog (ie “What’s your race?”). I was taken aback by the question and upset by its inherent assumptions. My boss thinks I’m qualified, I wanted to scream at the firing line, do you sign my checks? The query angered me for a number of reasons, not the least of which was...
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Rewound
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on April 29, 2008
I was preparing to enter high school the summer that Clueless came out, making me the part of the film’s original core demographic. I might have seen it five times that summer, and, oh, I don’t know…. 100 times on video in the following two years. I don’t know if I fully recognized it then, but I very much appreciated Amy Heckerling’s inclusion of Dionne and Murray (Stacy Dash and...
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Oh, Man. That's Embarrassing
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on April 29, 2008
As if the numerous indictments thrown at Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his ex-lover, ex-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty weren’t enough, the Detroit Free Press has uncovered many, many, many more pages of illicit texts they sent each other on their city-issue cell phones. They’ve pulled a few choice excerpts over at What About Our Daughters. The texts really embarrassing, particularly for...
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NYPD Sued For Using Fewer Resources For Missing Blacks
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on May 07, 2008
Ever heard of Romona Moore? I hadn’t either. She was a 21-year-old Hunter College student who lived in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn with her parents, who are immigrants from Guyana. When she left the house to go to Burger King one night five years ago and didn’t return by the next morning, her mother, Elle Carmichael, called the police. The police told her she shouldn’t even be...
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Much Aloha To Dog The Bounty Hunter
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on May 14, 2008
Dog the Bounty Hunter, who went on a tour of contrition after his son sold a tape of him dropping numerous n-bombs in reference to Dog Jr.’s black girlfriend, is coming back to A&E. Apparently the appropriate amount of time has elapsed after his racist rant. “We’re really confident that the time is right to bring him back,” said Dan Silbrman, the network’s vice president of...
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Akon: Only "Positive Things" Have Come From Being Exposed By The Smoking Gun
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on May 15, 2008
Understandably, Akon has been laying low since he got played by those diligent investigators at The Smoking Gun who found out with a little bit of digging that he had completely made up his past as a high-powered leader of a car theft ring, fabricating a lengthy prison stay and telling any journalist who would listen about his fake experiences. He spoke about the controversy for the first time to...
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And the Beef Goes On...
via Stereohyped by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Zach i can only hope this feud will occupy the american consciousness unitl at least labor day...And now: Spike Lee responds to Clint Eastwood’s response to Spike Lee’s response to Flags of our Fathers.“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either,” Spike Lee told ABCNEWS.com. “He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The...
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Al Sharpton Challenges Writer Of Inflammatory Article To A Debate
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on June 17, 2008
Al Sharpton, who has been getting skewered in the press lately over federal investigations into his tax-paying-habits and a recent article that alleges he took bribes from major corporations in exchange for going easy on them for their race practices. He has now challenged one of the reporters of the latter story, Isabel Vincent on the New York Post, to an on-air debate. “The New York Post...
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