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Patrick Ruffini says that according to projections from a crowdsourced spreadsheet, the Obama campaign is on pace to raise $60 million this month. In January, he raised $36 million — the highest campaign fundraising mark for a month in a contested primary ever. (Question: Have any of y’all donated to a candidate?)

Barbara Ehrenreich penned an influential and oft-cited 2001 book called Nickel and Dimed, in which she decides to shed some of the privileges of her middle class life (author, college professor, etc.) to see if it was really possible to live in the U.S. on the minimum wage. Her experiment went on for a year, Read More

The L.A. Times says that Josh Romney, one of our mortal enemy Mitt Romney’s 99 sons, suggested that his pops might jump back into the race if support for John McCain falters or as a VP candidate. (There’s a joke about Mitt switching positions again that you could make if you wanted. Go for it.) Read More

While he was campaigning in Virginia before their primary, Barack Obama stopped at T.C. Williams High School for a town hall meeting. This is where the real-life story that inspired Remember the Titans took place: a Denzel Special where a football team helps integrate the school heal the racial wounds — nay, souls— of a Read More

Brown University is following the lead of academic powerhouses Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Stanford in ending tuition for middle income and poor students. They also intend to place student loans with grants so those same students aren’t saddled with so much debt. The cost of tuition and room and board at Brown for the 2008-09 Read More

  Y’all know we had to clown “review” ABC’s A Raisin in the Sun today, right? We’ll keep it brief and try not to rub our prediction of Diddy’s epic failure as Walter Lee too far in (though, come on, fam. You know we gon’ have to say somethin.) Here, in no particular order, are Read More

Back in the day, emcees called this “biting.” (Bob The Builder ain’t never seen a royalty check!) And Stereohyped is saying that the evil Will.i.am has another celebrity-filled Obama video in the works (this time with Beyoncé). Brighter stars, diminishing returns?

There are four politicians who are always hit with that label: Senator Barack Obama. Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. Or is that just a coincidence?

A few times over the course of its run, The Wire has briefly shone its light on “A-rabs”, street peddlers who sell fruits and vegetables on carts pulled by horses and a fixture in Baltimore life. Bubbles, during one of his many short-lived forays into sobriety and legality, is one of those peddlers. “You A-rabbing Read More

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was formed in Oakland, Calif., by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Bryant L’Anthony Gumble in 1966. A spirited speaker and eloquent writer, Gumbel penned the Panther’s Ten-Point Program manifesto and spearheaded the group’s breakfast program for neighborhood children. After concern was raised about the power that Gumbel Read More

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