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It’s the day after Valentine’s Day, so you can go back to ignoring your significant other. Or your parents. Or your jumpoff. But don’t turn away from this roundup: 1. As always, The Big Picture has an impressive collection of photographs – this time from Egypt. (Blackink) 2. Apparently the Tea Party ideal of local Read More

The horror comedy Gremlins was released in 1984 to mixed reviews and allegations of racism from the black community.  Per Wikipedia, “Patricia Turner writes that the gremlins “reflect negative African-American stereotypes” in their dress and behavior. They are shown “devouring fried chicken with their hands”, listening to black music, breakdancing, and wearing sunglasses after dark Read More

In a thoughtful, very candid post, TNC talks about how Kenyatta, his partner, came very close to dying after giving birth to their son. Peripartum cardiomyopathy, the disease that led to congestive heart failure, is rare and lethal. It kills women. And no one knows why. Kenyatta was lucky. She didn’t need a new heart. Read More

All this “beiging of America stuff” — btw, have you listened to the podcast? — is muddying things for both statisticians and the government. “Under Department of Education requirements that take effect this year, for instance, any student…who acknowledges even partial Hispanic ethnicity will, regardless of race, be reported to federal officials only as Hispanic. And students Read More

Imagine: you’re a staggeringly powerful alien from another planet who crash lands on Earth and grows up as a white person in the United States.  It’s probably safe to say that you’re going to have some serious issues with entitlement and privilege. So it was for young Clark Kent, who grew up in lily-white Smallville, Read More

I’ve been going back and forth on the final season of Friday Night Lights, the critically acclaimed, if little-watched show about a high school football-obsessed Texas town. As much as I love the show, it can be maddening in its inconsistency to continuity and plausibility. Storylines get dropped unceremoniously or resolved way too neatly — Read More

(via) Thomas L. Jennings, a free man of color, made history when he became the first black man to hold a patent.  It was for a method of dry cleaning clothes known as “dry scouring.”  This process required first applying a solvent to the surface of a stain, which was then placed in a heated Read More

On Saturday, Monica, Jamelle and I had the honor of seeing Gabriel Arana, their colleague at The American Prospect, marry his longtime partner, Michael Collis. It was a beautiful, elegant ceremony — and also fun as hell. Ideally, one of us would say something insightful and poignant here, but we’d be hard-pressed to match the Read More

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