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Georgetown Law Professor Fired
Adjunct Georgetown Law Professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson were caught on Zoom discussing the less than stellar performance of some Black law students. It appears that Sellers did the talking...
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Movie Reviews: Shot Caller
Shot Callerdirected by Ric Roman Waugh I remember the righteous living and doing all I knew for good/If I could change this corruption you know I would if I only could." Up in Heah" Ike &Tina...
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Movie Reviews: Fatale
Fataledirected by Deon TaylorThis new thriller is a neo-noir which compares well with the forties and fifties noir films that are its ancestors and somewhat less so with the Shannon Whirry and Shannon...
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Movie Reviews: Strangers On A Train
Strangers On A Traindirected by Alfred HitchcockI was only familiar with this film via the later spoof Throw Momma From The Train which starred Danny Devito and Billy Crystal. So when I had an...
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Movie Reviews: Clown
Clowndirected by Jon WattsThis movie came out in 2014. Clown was Watts' directorial debut. It's low budget but does its best with what it has. Clown is by turns equally inventive and formulaic. I guess...
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Movie Reviews: Scream Blacula Scream
Scream Blacula Screamdirected by Bob KelljanHollywood occasionally notices that Black audiences exist and would like to watch films in which Black actors/actresses are not always the chaste best...
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Book Reviews: Dave vs. The Monsters: Resistance
Dave vs. The Monsters: Resistanceby John BirminghamOften second books in a trilogy are a let down. Resistance is not a bad book, but the middle of stories are rarely as exciting as introductions or as...
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Murder Over Stimulus Check in Indianapolis
When I read about the story below I was reminded of the Tolkien quote which headlines this post. I am not opposed to the death penalty per se.But even in the most execution happy states of America,...
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Brooklyn Bus Battle: You Back Up!
It's unavoidable. In life we will have arguments, debates, disagreements, contretemps, squabbles, or outright fights with other people: friends, relatives, spouses, lovers, co-workers, and strangers....
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Senator Schumer Shields The Rich
One of the predictable things about life is that people are hypocrites. People sanctimoniously blast others for looking after their tribe or self-interests but rush to do the exact same thing when they...
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Book Reviews: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkienedited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher TolkienWhen we read books we dislocate ourselves in space and also time if the book is sufficiently old....
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Movie Reviews: Decoy
Decoydirected by Jack BernhardThis is an older and lower budget film noir that nonetheless stands tall as one of the most unabashedly hardcore noirs, with a femme fatale who runs rings around all of...
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Black F-22 Pilot And Racial Discrimination
I think that many Black men in America could tell some tales about discrimination that falls short of explicit racial hostility in the form of "I hate n*****s and think we should kill them all!" . That...
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Michigan Home Inspector Assaults Elmo
Although it's tough to beat Florida as a source for weird and wacky stories , it seems like my home state is making a pretty good case for having FAR more than its share of nutjobs. Although former...
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Police Continue to Attack Black Men: Antone Austin and Caron Nazario
I could change only the names and dates in the two stories in this post and the events would be identical to other incidents of police assault on Black men in America during the past four centuries....
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Tax Preparer Pulls Gun On Customer
You know, for most people who aren't millionaires, independently wealthy, earn a living from profits, rents, and interest instead of salary, or have business interests, income, and property in multiple...
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Movie Reviews: The Big Heat
The Big Heat (1953)directed by Fritz LangThis earlier film starred film noir standouts Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford, who were later seen together in Human Desire, also directed by Fritz Lang. It is...
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Movie Reviews: Jakob's Wife
Jakob's Wifedirected by Travis StevensBarbara Crampton is horror/B-movie royalty and has been since her work in Re-Animator as well as her more recent turn in the inventive You're Next. I liked...
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Ma'khia Bryant Shooting
I rarely have nice things to say about the police. I think police are a necessary evil. Often conservatives and racists (which is almost redundant phrasing these days) defend obvious police brutality...
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