Opinion
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Why are Oscar voters so white and so male?
12:03 PM on 02/21/2012
OPINION - It has long been an open secret that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a mostly white and male operation...
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Whitney Houston's life was rooted in her Christian faith
12:10 PM on 02/20/2012
OPINION - None of us is perfect, and Whitney wasn't perfect either. But I know that Whitney loved God by the way she treated other people and by the way that she treated me...
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Priscilla's story: detailed slave records link one African-American family to remarkable ancestor
10:34 AM on 02/20/2012
VIDEO - The Martin family knows something about themselves that few if any families will ever learn about their past. They're able to trace their ancestry back hundreds of years to a little girl. Her name was Priscilla...
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Denzel Washington: The last 90s-era A-lister with consistent drawing power
8:27 AM on 02/20/2012
OPINION - Denzel, while certainly enduring a few flops, has still managed to maintain a successful career, and is arguably more popular now than he's ever been...
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Obama, Romney must connect with out of work Americans
6:00 PM on 02/19/2012
OPINION - Can Mitt Romney and President Obama connect with an electorate full of jobless Americans?
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With Whitney Houston's death, burial, Gen Xers confront mortality
2:32 PM on 02/19/2012
OPINION - We lose someone iconic like Whitney Houston, and suddenly we are grudgingly reminded of the Latin maxim Tempus Fugit: time flies and it waits for no man...
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Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton: Why were women left out of a birth control hearing?
2:40 PM on 02/17/2012
OPINION - Republicans tried to start a war about religion at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing yesterday, but like Pogo, they 'met the enemy and he is us.'...
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Chris Brown and Rihanna to reconcile on 'Birthday Cake (Remix)' record: Domestic violence bigger than couple
9:14 AM on 02/17/2012
OPINION - No, this isn't about Chris Brown at all. This is about how at every turn we have failed to have a real conversation about how to prevent this from happening again...
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Why is there a gender gap for blacks in interracial marriage?
8:43 AM on 02/17/2012
OPINION - It's possible that this is the result of traditional Europeanized standards of beauty where black women are not considered as beautiful and desirable as other races of women...
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Was Whitney Houston going gospel in her final days?
8:00 AM on 02/17/2012
OPINION - It's possible that a career shift to more gospel-oriented music may have finally given Houston the life she wanted, and saved her from the personal demons that she battled so publicly...
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Rep. Allen West: Democratic handouts an 'insidious form of slavery'
5:40 PM on 02/16/2012
OPINION - In a speech on the House floor today, Florida Rep. Allen West marked Black History Month by proving, once and for all, that he knows nothing about history...
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GOP banking on bad economy, wedge issues to win the White House
2:49 PM on 02/16/2012
OPINION - For a Republican candidate (pick any; for the sake of this argument...) to win the White House this fall, one of two things must happen, and neither of them are good for the GOP or the nation...
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Whitney Houston funeral livestream will bring closure for fans
8:31 AM on 02/16/2012
OPINION - Whitney Houston fans breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that her family had decided to live-stream her funeral set for Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark...
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Too Short, XXL apologies are too little, too late
12:40 PM on 02/15/2012
OPINION - The recent apologies of rapper Too Short and XXL magazine just might be more disturbing than a controversial video in question...
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Why we can't blame Bobby Brown for Whitney Houston's death
8:42 AM on 02/15/2012
OPINION - To this day, many still don't get it and ask, 'How could she have married him?' The answer is as clear then as it is now: Because she wanted to...
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Jeremy Lin's race matters and that's a good thing
12:50 PM on 02/14/2012
OPINION - There's no doubt -- Lin is getting unbelievable hype right now and part of the reason is because of his Chinese and Taiwanese heritage. But he deserves it and there's nothing wrong with it...
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Are Democrats too eager to abandon President Obama?
10:35 AM on 02/14/2012
theGRIO REPORT - The quick, public retreat from Democrats emboldened Republicans to increase their volume in attacking the president. And it suggests that even in an election year, Democrats are likely to air public criticisms of the president...
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Nicki Minaj Grammys backlash: Has the rapper put her career at risk?
8:41 AM on 02/14/2012
OPINION - Minaj's big gamble failed to pay off. Her "Exorcism of Roman" routine was panned by critics and viewers. Could the pop star be losing her artistic direction and risking her career?...
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New York magazine published picture of Obama evolving from ape to human
8:32 AM on 02/14/2012
OPINION - New York magazine published a picture meant to show President Obama's evolution on the issue gay marriage. What made the photograph controversial is the fact that the picture shows the president evolving from an ape to a human...
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Interracial relationships in the post-'Loving v. Virginia' age
8:00 AM on 02/14/2012
OPINION - Are interracial relationships inherently weird, or do we make them that way? While the majority of relationships and marriages are same race, those couples that cross racial lines are viewed as doing something quite radical...
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