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Black Coffee Channel Founder Cedric Muhammad Comments On The Compromise Made By Black Rappers and Black Comedians; Speaking The Language Of The People; The Limits Of Street Credibility; and the Lessons of BET and Radio One

 

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WCAU: Romero Compares Suspension to Jesus' Crucifixion
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Does the J.C. in J.C. Romero stand for Jesus Christ? Maybe in Romero's world... Hear the Phillie talk about his 50-game suspension.

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ET: Mo'Nique Gets Emotional At NAACP Awards
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She's known for her outrageous sense of humor, but our Kevin Frazier found Mo'Nique in a more serious mood backstage at the NAACP awards.

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ABCNews: Hip-Hop Meets Chess
Streets and Culture

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Hip-Hop Chess Federation Featurd On Good Morning America

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9News: High school hoops coach told to stop hypnotizing team
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A high school basketball coach has been told he can't hypnotize his players anymore because it sends the wrong message to other schools and could get the students hooked on hypnosis.  The St. John High School boys team - the same team that won state two years ago and finished second last year - was just 7-6 through last week when coach Clint Kinnamon decided to bring in a hypnotist.

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KlAS-TV: 5,000 Patients Warned of Improper Disinfecting
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A local surgery center is notifying patients that some of their scopes were not cleaned properly in as many as 4,800 procedures

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NewsNet5: Police Shoot, Kill 72-Year-Old Suspect Wielding Shotgun
Streets and Culture

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Mentor police said they shot and killed a 72-year-old man at a home Thursday evening after he came toward officers while pointing a shotgun at them.

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Final Call: BET's Jeff Johnson Interviews
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As part of their special coverage of the historic January 20, 2009 inauguration of President Barack H. Obama, BET TV aired a brief excerpt of an interview Jeff Johnson conducted with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

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PBS: Learn More About The Spy Factory
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George Orwell's secret police have nothing on two new NSA systems designed to read people's minds.

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MTV: 50 Cent Responds To Rick Ross With 'Officer Ricky' Track
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50 Cent, what took you so long? Almost five days have gone since Rick Ross came out with "Mafia Music," which talks about Fif and the mother of his child.

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BART Police Chief Reportedly Asks Officers to Contribute to Fund for Johannes Mehserle
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The attorney representing a family in a wrongful death claim against BART is calling for the transit agency’s police chief to be fired for circulating a memo telling officers how they can send money, food, books and personal mail to the former officer charged with murder.

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Boston Channel: PETA's Veggies Too Hot For TV
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A commercial for veggies seem to be too steamy for the Super Bowl.

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CBS4: Employee Charged With School Bus Tire Fraud
Streets and Culture

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Tens of thousands of your children ride school buses in Miami-Dade County every day. The CBS4 I-Team has learned that a mechanic in charge of keeping those rides safe and smooth is accused of putting kids' safety at risk. And he's charged with doing it for a profit.

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France24: Multiple foreign currencies permitted to boost economy
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Zimbabwe decided to allow the use of at least five foreign currencies, including the euro and the US dollar, to prop up the ailing economy as it announced a 1.9-billion-US-dollar budget for 2009.

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ESPN: Estalella to support case vs. Bonds
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Two sources have confirmed that Bobby Estalella has been subpoenaed to testify in Bonds' perjury trial, scheduled to start March 2 in federal court in San Francisco.

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WSOCTV: Historic Charlotte Restaurant Closes For Good
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The owner of Charlotte’s historical Coffee Cup restaurant told Eyewitness News the business will not reopen.  The restaurant was the first in the city to serve black and white customers at the beginning of the civil rights movement.

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CBS2: Mother Of Ex-Bull Curry's Son Found Murdered
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The mother of former Chicago Bulls center Eddy Curry's 3-year-old son and her baby daughter were found slain with multiple gunshot wounds Saturday in a South Loop condo.

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NYU: Sugar Coating Racism With “Drunken Negro Face” Cookies
Streets and Culture

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The cookie, which, if I might add, doesn’t even appear appetizing, is an exaggerated representation of stereotypical African American facial features.

 

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France24: Nkunda arrested in Rwanda; Kinshasa demands extradition
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Congolese Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was arrested by Rwandan authorities during the night while fleeing across the border into Rwandan territory, Congolese and Rwandan officials said Friday.

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MTV: Jay-Z Taking His Time With Blueprint 3 To Make It 'Beyond And Above'
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Typically, when Jay has a project in the works, it only takes him a few weeks to wrap it up. This time, though, there's been no rush.  "For me, the process of making an album is difficult with so many things going on,"

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CNN: Black Iraqis make Obama a model to follow
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Their faces and darker skins make them look different. They are routinely called "slave" by the majority, whatever their profession. But Iraq's black population hopes that Barack Obama's rise to the White House will mark a turning point for minorities not just in the United States, but also in their country.

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