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Perry and Winfrey may think Precious is serious, but Daniels is hoisting his freak flag. He gets off on degradation. Flashbacks to Precious’ rape contain a curious montage of grease, sweat, bacon and Vaseline. Later, he intercuts a shot of pig’s feet cooking on a stove with Precious being humped while her mother watches from a corner. Another misjudged scene recreates De Sica’s B&W Two Women—a half-camp trashing of motherhood that compounds the problem of cultural alienation.

By Angela Hughes
Within the past few years, American popular culture has become more environmentally conscious. From grocery stores banning the use of plastic bags, to celebrities becoming renascent with environmentalist groups, being “green” has origins beyond the love fest of the ‘70s.
Before the European invasion of the African coast and the thievery of our beloved [...]

If your reading the title of this blog and are slightly confused, do not feel bad.  I had to read the title and article three times before  I could grasp (understanding is too far of a stretch) what was happening.  I was on Bossip.com getting my dose of urban gossip and stumbled across this article [...]

“I started having hot flashes and sweats,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told CBS News correspondent Jeff Greenfield. “And I wasn’t a candidate for menopause, you know? So, trying to figure out what that was all about.”

So although I heard about the line up for this festival late like around 11am. When I found out Pharoahe Monch was going to be there I knew I needed to start getting ready to head out to West Oakland. The concert was part of the Living Word Festival for 2009 which is an “annual gathering of future thinking, Urban centered performers, educators & environMentalists.”

Cornel West Comments on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Hard To Be A War President With A Peace Prize
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/10/cornel-west-comments-on-o_n_316476.html
Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Central Library in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 9, and weighed in on what winning the Nobel Peace Prize will mean for President Obama.
The Princeton University professor and [...]

If Sammy Sosa hadn’t also insisted that he only “accidentally” used a corked bat during a Cubs game in 2003 that resulted in an eight-game suspension, or that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs despite forearms as big as Popeye’s, or if he hadn’t failed a Major League Baseball drug test, I would be more inclined to believe he is the victim of a bad batch of lotion.

Rihanna’s interview on 20/20

Now I don’t feel like I was acting out of character or dressing in a manner not befitting to my persona, however I was dressed in a manner that I hadn’t in a long time. I don’t have a name for it but check out the wardrobe.

A 20-year-old Phi Beta Sigma pledge at Prairie View A&M University underwent systematic hazing — including a strict bread-and-water diet, paddling and mandatory rigorous exercises — that intensified until it culminated in his death, a lawsuit filed by his parents states.