Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Dr. Boyce, The Latest: Rappers Sue Each Other, Rev. Al is Angry

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Suge Knight, Kanye West: Lawsuit, Guns and Money

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How Love and Money Mix and How You Can Do it the Right Way

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Black Single Mothers and Dating: What's It Really Like?

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Should Facebook Be Held Accountable for Murders by Members?

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Rev. Al Sharpton and Dr. Boyce Discuss the Plight of the Black Male

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Obama's Fatherhood.gov Commercial: Too Feminine for Black Men?

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BP Chooses a Black Man to Head its Claims Process

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Son of Dallas Police Chief Suspected in Killing a Cop




Monday, June 21, 2010

Rapper Fat Joe Questioned in Rape

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, AOL Black Voices

The rapper Fat Joe was detained by police Sunday night after he and his entourage were accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Madison, Wisconsin. According to TMZ, the woman is 33-years old and claims the assault occurred in a Cadillac Limousine after a concert at the Orpheum Theater.


Fat Joe (a.k.a.Joseph Antonio Cartagena) and his entourage were held for questioning, but he was released and not arrested. The details of the case are still being sorted out in the investigation. Relative to most artists, Fat Joe doesn't get into very much trouble. The 39-year old married father of two has not, to my knowledge been accused of any sexual assault, so I'd be surprised if he waited this long to get started. He has been arrested in some of the typical rapper non-sense in the past: In 1998, he and the deceased rapper Big Pun were arrested for assaulting a man with a baseball bat and stealing his gold chain. I'm not even going to try to explain that one.

 

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News: The Latest From AOL - 6/21/10

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Son of Dallas Police Chief Suspected in Killing a Cop

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Is Obama's Mortgage Modification Program Failing?

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Michael Jackson's Estate Earned $783 Million Since His Death

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Will Tiger Woods' Video Game Sell Like it Did in the Past?

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Hallmark Greeting Card Gets Accused of Corporate Racism

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How to Save Your Money: 5 Steps to Getting it Right

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Financial Lovemaking: AOL BV Poll Results on Black Women, Dating

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Black Businesswoman Danielle Douglas and Dr. Boyce Talk Business

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Tiger Woods Sex Scandals Cost Him $25 Million in Endorsements

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Black Scholar: Black Athletes Exploited Physically, Intellectually by NCAA

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Dr. Boyce and Lady Drama Discuss Wendy Williams, Hip-Hop and More

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Foreclosure Epidemic Hits Minority Communities Hardest

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Black Republican: King's Statement About Obama Favoring Blacks Was Right

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The Black Church Keeps Black Women Single and Lonely?

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Parliament-Funkadelic Guitarist Garry Shider Dies




Saturday, June 19, 2010

Black Politics from TheGrio - 6/19/10




Friday, June 18, 2010

Study Shows that Gates Was Probably Not Profiled

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, The Institute for Black Public Policy

A recent report to be published Thursday in the Boston Globe is set to show that the Cambridge Police Department does not use racial profiling, as it was accused of doing during the controversial case last summer involving Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates. The report, compiled by the New England Center of Investigative Reporting, analyzed 392 disorderly conduct arrests between 2004 and 2009. During that time, 57 percent of those arrested were white, and 34 percent were black. These numbers almost directly mirror the percentages in the community in which the arrests were made.


I did a great deal of CNN commentary on the Henry Louis Gates case, and to the ire of some of my fellow black scholars at Harvard, I firmly held the position that the Gates case was not about racial profiling. Not to say that the officer didn't violate procedure, but the truth is that there was almost nothing about that case that made me believe that Professor Gates was arrested because he was black.

 

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Diddy's Son Gets a $350,000 Car - Is that too much?

Some think it's too much that Diddy's son got a $350,000 car for his 16th birthday - do you agree?

Saturday, June 12, 2010

African American News Express - 6/12/10

Gary Coleman's Wife Continues to Be More and More Suspicious

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

I was saddened to see that 1980s icon Gary Coleman died just a few days ago. What's even sadder is that...
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Alvin Greene is the Political Candidate that Everyone Knows All About

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

I've seen the media dance around the obvious when it comes to the peculiar candidacy of Alvin Greene, the South...
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Rapper Nicki Minaj Gets Sued Over Payments on a Lamborghini

 

 

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Black Teen Beaten by Police in Indianapolis

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Brandon Johnson: 15-Year Old Boy Beaten by Police in Indianapolis

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OJ Simpson Fights to Get a New Trial in Nevada

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Oscar Grant Trial Has No Black Jurors

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How To Fight Like A Celebrity!

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Around the Web -- Jay-Z in Rolling Stone, Drake Was Rihanna's 'Pawn'? + More

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Black News: Oscar Grant Trial Has No Black Jurors

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

On New Year's day of 2009, Oscar Grant was shot in Oakland, California. The shooter was a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer by the name of Johannes Mehserle. Grant was 22-years old at the time of his death, and the shooting was captured by cell phone cameras and disseminated throughout the Internet. Adding insult to injury, the Grant family just found that there will be no African American jurors in the trial of grant's shooter.


Jack Bryson, whose sons were with Grant the night he was killed, was angry about the jury selection.


"This is like a slap in the face," Bryson told The Associated Press. "This case came all the way to Los Angeles after the judge in Alameda County said they couldn't get a fair and impartial jury there.
"This is the best you can do, and you did this in two days. We could've stayed back in Oakland for this."

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African American Faculty Being Shut Out of Universities

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University

Dr. M. Cookie Newsom

is the Director for Diversity Education and Assessment at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a trouble maker and an angry black woman, which is likely going to cause her serious problems with her colleagues (we talked yesterday about how being angry can get a black person into serious trouble). Dr. Newsom, however, has good reason to be angry. In a recent interview with Diverse issues in Higher Education, Dr. Newsom stated in plain language that most major universities are not serious about diversifying their faculty and that this hurts all students, especially students of color.
"The dismal truth is academe doesn’t really want a racially-diverse faculty," Newsom said during a faculty diversity presentation at the American Association of University Professors’ (AAUP) annual national conference in Washington, D.C. "It’s totally a myth."

Dr. Newson based her conclusions on statistics and data she collected which shows that most major universities are good at documenting plans to increase faculty diversity, but most of it’s nothing but lip service.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Obama and the Angry Black Man

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The Latest in Black News from AOL - 6/9/10

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22-Year Old Pretending to be HS Student Faces 6 Felonies

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Eminem's 'Recovery' Proves More Than Celebrity Rehab

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Dee Dee Myers: Obama Can't Get Angry Because He's Black

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BLACK MUSIC MONTH: 7 Pop/Rap CDs You Must Revisit

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Rihanna's Hair Stylist Explains Her New 'Matador Red' 'Do

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Rihanna Sparkles, Jada Shines, Revamps & The Ultimate Dress - Around the Web

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FBI Says Texas Man Called Al-Qaida His 'Brothers'

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Rampage Jackson, UFC Fighter, Justifies 'Gay' Comments

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DA: No DNA Evidence Found on 7-Year-Old Who Was Gang Raped

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Marc Lamont Hill Responds to Slim Thug's Take on Black Women

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Peace, Confidence and Bliss

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BP Using Massive PR and Internet Strategies to Deal with Spill

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Eve: Lets Guard Down on VH1's 'Behind the Music'

 

 

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