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Book Reviews: Monster
Monsterby A. Lee MartinezThis is a light hearted book about love, magic, and the possible end of existence as we know it. In this book magic is real, although most people don't realize it. There are...
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Trevor Noah and Tomi Lahren
You may have heard about this recent interview/discussion/confrontation between conservative media personality Tomi Lahren and Daily Show host Trevor Noah. Using both logic and gentle ridicule where...
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Judge declares mistrial in Walter Scott shooting
Breaking News:A judge declared a mistrial Monday afternoon in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man at the hands of a South Carolina former patrolman, after the jury said they could not come to a...
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Movie Reviews: Don't Breathe, Captain America: Civil War
Don't Breathedirected by Fede AlvarezJust because he's blind don't mean he's a saint.This thriller movie is in many ways an updated version of the 1991 movie The People Under The Stairs. It veers from...
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Kanye West Meets with the Donald
The memes are already rolling out strong all over social media in response to yesterday's bizarre yet somehow unsurprising meet up between hip hop icon Kanye West and president-elect Donald Trump. In...
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Woman Dragged Off Plane at Metro Detroit Airport
I don't think that this would qualify as police brutality. If the publicly available information is correct then the correct steps were taken. Of course just based on previous incidents where certain...
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Clinton's Michigan Mistakes
Rubio was a clown. He never could have outfought Hillary. But what I didn't know until this day was that it was Trump all along.According to one model of human emotional process, there are five stages...
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Andre Johnson Gives Back To The Community
We hear a lot about former or current athletes who have lost all their money, abused their wives or girlfriends or otherwise behaved poorly in some way. It's important to remember that just as with any...
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Music Reviews: When The Levee Breaks
Memphis Minnie (1897-1973) and her husband Kansas Joe were the original writers and performers of "When The Levee Breaks". As you might imagine it was about hard times after a flood that occurred near...
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Godfather Two: Who Opened The Drapes?
In the movie Godfather 2 after a long day of business Michael Corleone finally returns home to his wife and children. Michael's wife Kay has already gone to bed but was either not completely asleep yet...
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TSA Body Searches Angela Rye
People say that President-Elect Donald Trump will usher in a new era of fascism and lack of respect for rights. And perhaps he will. A man who has said that he will order torture of terrorism suspects,...
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Rudyard Kipling: The Stranger
The British intellectual and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Rudyard Kipling for most of his life was an unabashed pro-imperialist and pro-colonialist who apparently never really gave serious thought...
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Movie Reviews: Suicide Squad, Train to Busan
Suicide Squaddirected by David AyerI had heard wildly different things about this film, which is based on a DC comic book team of antiheroes. Some people claimed that it was overwrought, poorly written...
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Black Woman in Texas Brutalized By Police
I don't really know what to say about this story which recently took place in Forth Worth Texas. A white police officer insulted and arrested a black mother who was trying to make a complaint that a...
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Movie Reviews: Solace
Solacedirected by Alphonso PoyartSolace is a movie which initially makes the viewer think that it is about one theme before fitfully and eventually skillfully revealing another theme altogether. It's...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Anger Translator: Final Address on The Daily Show
Comedian Keegan-Michael Key stopped by The Daily Show to among other things share his final (?) sketch of Luther: President Obama's Anger Translator which stars him in the titular role alongside his...
View ArticleFacts??! We're talking about facts??!!
Recently, Actress Meryl Streep criticized Trump during her speech at the Golden Globe Awards. Her criticism was directed at his imitating New York Times Reporter Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a...
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Music Reviews: The Big Bamboo
Ska, Calypso and Reggae are all interrelated forms of music. One of the original giants of calypso music, who was also influential in the beginnings of reggae is Grenadian-Trinidadian singer Mighty...
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Donald Trump, John Lewis, Legitimacy, Normalization and The Rust Belt
You may have heard that Democratic Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) ,who also happens to be a civil rights icon, recently stated that he wasn't going to attend the inauguration for Donald Trump in part...
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