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  • Fire Phil Bailey!

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    My article in LEO last week ruffled a few feathers back home. So much that there's buzzing talk about boycotting the paper and protesting out in front of LEO Weekly's offices in the near future. Others are making it much more plain about what should be done with me in [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 4:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Dub-ya, the movie

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    One of my favorite snapshots in American history will be the time between the upcoming election (Nov. 4th, 2008) and next year's inauguration (Jan. 20th, 2009).No, not because of Mr. Hope. I'm interested to see what will happen when the country receives a totally unfettered W. presidency. In the meantime [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 4:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Attack of the Activist

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    What happens when a veteran of the civil rights struggle goes off the rails? When does the next generation tell the previous one to step aside? That's been a question on a lot of minds, particularly after Jesse's comments on B-Rock. It has always been a sticky area and taboo [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 12:45pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • BarackBook

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    The Republican National Committee launched a website, BarackBook, which copies the format of Facebook and parodies the junior Senator from Illinois about his controversial friendships and moonwalking positions. It's a 21st century facelift on classic GOP attack ads, but it's a lot better than throwing the easy punch at Barack [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2008, 4:15pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Maher's 'Religulous' trailer

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    Teaming up with 'Borat' director Larry Charles, comedian Bill Maher has a new documentary set to hit theatres on October 3rd. It's about religion and is called 'Religulous', because well, believing in unicorns, centaurs, demons, gods, angels and pixies in the 21st Century is ridiculous!Watch the trailer, here.Maher's statement on [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • 'Obama is my slave'

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    Boy oh boy, this is going to be a very interesting presidential election. Everywhere from Georgia to Utah, we're seeing some of the most racist caricatures since the 1920s being veiled as 'presidential criticism'.Joining the club of rednecks is an unlikely candidate, an Israeli-born New York fashion designer named Apollo' [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Blitt's cover eclipses Lizza's story

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    Barack is a Muslim terrorist, Michele is a Black Panther, bin Laden's their hero and old Glory is burning -- scared enough, America?Maybe the readership of The New Yorker is so sophisticated that Barry Blitt's illustration, called 'The Politics of Fear', is understood as satire. The troubling thing about satire [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 4:22pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Fact checking w/ Patti Wolter

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    Described as a copious enterprise, fact-checking was our latest lesson at the Academy of Alternative Journalism. It was facilitated by Patti Wolter, an assistant professor at Medill, who was once a managing editor at Mother Jones magazine.Wolter showed us just how important and tedious a process it can be, even [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 2:55pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • B-Rock caves on Wiretap Bill

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    Look mommy, Mr. Hope is melting.From NY Times:After long opposing the idea of immunity for the phone companies in the wiretapping operation, [Senator Barack Obama of Illinois] voted for the plan on Wednesday. His reversal last month angered many of his most ardent supporters, who organized an unsuccessful drive to [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2008, 7:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Remembering Rev. Coleman

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    In this week's LEO I wrote about the death of Rev. Louis Coleman, which has been hard for many -- friend and foe -- back in Louisville to digest. He was one of the city's most familar faces, charismatic personalities and divisive subjects. He committed his life to struggle which [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2008, 5:36pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • 'The Juice' of Chicago

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    With Taste of Chicago coming to a close there's an interesting piece in the Tribune today about what garbage workers have to deal with each year, particularly a nasty elixir of soda, grease, food, snot rags, baby shit and other liquids known as 'The Juice' -- yuck!Think about it, the' [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Wale is the TRUTH

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    If you haven't heard of Wale don't apologize. Just download 'The Mixtape About Nothing' and all your hip-hop sins will be forgiven.Amen.'Let's Ride' -- Wale f. Lupe Fiasco' [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 2:45pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • B-Rock moonwalking on Iraq?

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    With W. signing another $162 billion to keep the war going, the 'Change' candidate might be backpedaling on more than just campaign finance according to critics.From the Wall Street Journal:Barack Obama defended his position on the Iraq War on Thursday after saying he may "refine" his position to withdraw combat [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 10:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Gonzo, a son of Louisville

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    Whether we know it, like it or embrace it or not, my hometown of Louisville, KY has exported two of the greatest rebels in American history -- Muhammad Ali and Hunter S. Thompson. The boxer who was a poet and the writer who was a fighter. Two men who revolutionized [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2008, 4:15pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Bullycide in KY

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    Though I've left my ol' Kentucy home for the bosom of Windy, check out my story on the cover of this week's LEO.It's about bullycide, which is when kids committ suicide due to depression caused by bullying at school. My story orbits around one of those cases in Kentucky by [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • The Art of Interviewing w/ Steve Bogira

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    Today Steve Bogira, author of Courtroom 302, spoke with the AAJ fellows about the art of interviewing. Before today's lesson we had to read the prologue and first chapter of his book, which was a detailed account of the Cook County criminal courthouse in Chicago in the late 1990s.I'm not [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2008, 1:14pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Street Drumline at the Taste

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    Walking through Windy's downtown loop provided me with another installment of what's becoming a series of encounters with black men from different walks of life that I'm posting on the ol' SOULution. I'm comparing it somewhat to the Washington Post's Being a Black Man series -- yes I'm an arrogant' [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2008, 3:28pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Black Kings (pawns, bishops and rooks) of Chicago

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    Today on my way home I decided to do one of my favorite activities, browse a Borders bookstore, which is right around the corner from my apartment -- did I mention I live in Hyde Park, haters!Anyway, while upstairs I noticed on the other side of the music section gathered [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 10:30pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Honoring George Carlin

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    "Now speaking of dead people."- George CarlinA great freethinker has left. I do wonder, however, if Carlin, who was a well-known non-believer in all myths whether it was demons, unicorns, angels, gods, or centaurs, would even want to be eulogized? I doubt it if the remembrance is wrapped up in [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 9:15pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • M Dot @ the Academy

    Number of comments: 2
    For those of you who are completely in the dark about my life and why the SOULution blog has been running slow, I moved to Chicago last week for a fellowship at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. The program is called the Academy for Alternative Journalism, which I was' [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 5:15pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • R.I.P Tim Russert

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    Most of the journalists I respect are best described as rebels or outlaws. Tim Russert was neither. Nevertheless he was a beacon of American journalism at its absolute best.He was surgical.Much of the press is a blunt instrument, employing a sledgehammer to perform heart surgery when a scalpel is needed. [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Stemle Writes

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    Cary Stemle is back, blogger than ever! He's in Philly for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies 2008 annual convention. Give him a look or two or three or more.From No More False Dichotomies:It’s always risky to generalize about a new place based on one day in a selected part of' [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2008, 8:30am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • The inadequate and unprepared black man named Barack

    Number of comments: 2
    Was Louisville Metro Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh's comments on WHAS-11, yesterday, wrong? The debate was all the rage locally @ The 'Ville Voice and PageOne. It even broke national coverage on DailyKos. Maybe it was a bit of a pile by the bloggers due to a bad paraphrase chosen by reporter [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 7:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • America's Blazing Saddle

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    Between writing for LEO and finding an apartment in Chicago, I heard America actually let the black guy win. Ever notice how America always has a surge of racial progress after a period of divisive, national devastation. After the Civil War, slavery ended. After George W. Bush, a black guy [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 8:30am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • W.'s senioritis

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    By definition every second term U.S. President since FDR eventually becomes a lame duck that the public ignores. No matter how good or bad their presidency, after the last midterm congressional elections we're looking towards the next possible president, we pretty much could care less what the sitting president says' [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 12:01am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Sirota's Uprising

    I'm a bibliophile, so hat tip to PageOne KY for alerting us about the Louisville appearance of a great rebel journalist, David Sirota. He'll be at Carmichael's on June 25 @ 7:00 P.M. From PageOneKY: Those of you familiar with the internets and reality know all about David Sirota and his liberal [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 2:51pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Blackface on Facebook

    Number of comments: 11
    Browsing on Facebook, a friend of mine found this casually displayed in his News Feed. Not surprisingly, there is a phenomenon on the website of people dressing up as minstrels to the point that some even call it blackfacebook. The guy in blackface went all out, he even painted his chest [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 6:50pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • My 2 on the changes @ LEO

    Number of comments: 1
    No one better than Stephen George could have written about the rumblings, changes and new ownership at LEO. His editorial in this week's edition about the torturous "low trade" known as journalism that is a "habit worse than heroin", summarizes and addresses it best. For those of you who don't [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • What's the matter with Kentucky?

    Number of comments: 1
    Boy, Kentucky has sure gotten plenty of attention for being racist. Maybe it's a bit unfair to compare Kentucky to Oregon. Our results in the presidential primary cannot be examined in a vacuum. The Beaver State has a different history (no Civil War) and racial makeup (absolutely no black people). [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 11:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Memorial Day memo to the U.S.

    For several months I've been on a steady diet of what you could call "end of empire" books. From Niall Ferguson's Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire to Matt Taibbi's The Great Derangement, there's something about this sort of literature that captures my mind. I don't know [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 4:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • NY Gov. pardons Slick Rick

    I told people NY Gov. David Paterson is a true blue progressive. We either forget or never knew that he drafted legislation to create restrictions on the use of deadly force by police officers. Fewer know that he was arrested in protest when he symbolically blocked the doors of One [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 7:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Hillary invoking RFK assassination is code for "Hang him!"

    Number of comments: 2
    Given her white workers appeal comments plus the ugly race-based vote in 'Klantucky', this sort of talk puts my racial paranoia in full bloom. Added together I just hear: "Hang him!" Sen. Clinton could have used plenty of other historical examples exist of lengthy primary campaigns, but bringing up RFK's assassination [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 7:06pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Common f. Pharrell - Universal Mind

    Number of comments: 2
    Boy, it's been a rough week. So to close it out I need something to lift my spirits. One of LEO's interns, Erin, put me on game to the leaked track from Common's new album, Invincible Summer due July 1. Notice the electro sound mixed with the old school sound. A [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 12:53pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • R.I.P. Alice Wade

    Number of comments: 1
    One of Louisville's most dependable and committed voices in the civil-rights movement died yesterday. Alice Wade, 69, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer passed yesterday morning. According to an e-mail sent out by the KY Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, Wade was given less than two weeks to live [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2008, 9:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Hillary wins Klantucky --- Louisville needs to secede

    Number of comments: 3
    UPDATE: Halfway across the globe Al Jazeerah reported on how race played a factor in the Democratic presidential primary. Pay attention to the first woman. Watch, she almost says it. "I just don't want to vote for a--" It's a bit disheartening watching Hillary Clinton declare her Klantucky victory in Louisville considering she [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 9:30pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Msg. to Hillary, 'Fall Back'

    Maybe after the Kentucky and Oregon primary, Hillary will listen to the dozens upon dozens of messages, suggestions, pleas and demands for her to quit. Just in case she doesn't, one more kick in the teeth won't hurt. 'Fall Back' by Idle Warship f. Chester French: For those lost in the wilderness [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 11:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Jealous, new NAACP Pres.

    Introducing Benjamin T. Jealous, 35, the new and youngest President of the NAACP. I doubt Jealous will be dubbed the 'hip-hop NAACP Pres.' as when Kwame won Detroit.-- he doesn't have the 'swagger' of Kilpatrick. Carrying the 'youth activist' description to the NAACP helm will have everyone giving Jealous a [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 7:45am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Ga. redneck selling Obama/Curious George t-shirts

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    Mike Norman, owner of Mulligan’s Bar and Grill in Cobb County, Ga., is selling t-shirts with a picture of Curious George peeling a banana with "Obama ‘08" underneath. So much for post-racial America. My favorite line: "We're not living in the (19)40's," he said. "Look at him . . . the hairline, [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2008, 2:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • 'Cruising the Divide' @ 8pm today

    Today is the first scheduled performance for “Cruising the Divide: From West Broadway to Churchill Downs”, a community-based play by the Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. I covered it in LEO here. Today's performance will be at Actors Theatre as will another on Saturday, May 17, 8:00 pm, which will [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2008, 9:30am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Hillary, please stop

    From LEO's General Sense of Outrage: Our friend David Harpe, one of the best photographers we know, has a new site where you can post photos of yourself with a message to Hillary Clinton to give it up. Hilarious! [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 9:13pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • LEO Elects...

    After reporting on the Louisville appearances of both Hilary and Barack, Stephen George nails it with his observation for LEO's cover story. By the way, LEO endorsed Barack, with a noted dissenting opinion from Sara Havens supporting Hilary. Am I the only one who cringed at the cover art? Anyway, you should [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 2:00pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Death of a Hero

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    I don't usually cover the local murder beat for various reasons. However, the visual presentation of the Timothy Barbour vigil by freelance photgrapher Abdul Sharif was particularly moving. Barbour, 26, a father of three, was shot and killed last Saturday when he intervened to stop a fight on a TARC [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 8:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • ATL's 'Soulja Girl': "Hip-Hop made me do it"

    Number of comments: 3
    ATL police are looking for 'Soulja Girl', the young Atlantan who has gained viral video infamy for harassing and threatening an elderly woman. Once they find this crazy bee-yatch, I guarantee her defense will be: "Hip-hop made me do it". After watching this video, I'm disgusted. Every stereotype of the hip-hop [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2008, 7:26pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Ready, Set, Obama

    Barack's in Louisville today, which means downtown Louisville will be a cluster &$#% from 3pm til 8pm. Sorry Obamaniacs, he'll probably lose the Bluegrass to Hilary. Politically KY is old, white and uneducated --- her base! Though he's already got two Bluegrass superdelegates (Rep. John Yarmuth and Rep. Ben Chandler), Hilary's [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2008, 10:58am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Urban decay in West Louisville

    Since the city-county merger of 2003, Louisville has been eager to join the fraternity of medium sized American cities. Key to that has been the redevelopment of vital downtown locations. Creating Waterfront Park and 4th Street Live!, demolishing the Clarksdale housing projects being demolished to create Liberty Green, has all [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2008, 9:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Hillary's white appeal

    Number of comments: 1
    The black blogosphere is livid about Hilary Clinton's USA Today interview. Even though Barack is leading in pledged delegates, popular votes, states won and -- according to ABC News -- superdelegates, his appeal isn't broad enough. "Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2008, 11:30am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • What Use is a Black President?

    Number of comments: 2
    Though Barack Obama's electoral support among black voters is cosseted between 85-90%, legitimate criticisms of him in the black public sphere is more common than one might think. These opinions are muted for a variety of reasons. The avalanche of Obamania among black supporters -- which I participate in at times [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 9:00am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Video of Philly police beatings

    Message: Philly PD ain't nothing to %@#$ with. Though fifteen officers have been taken off the street as a result of the videotape, this is unsettling to say the least. From CNN: An internal investigation is under way into the videotaped beatings of three men by several Philadelphia police officers, according to [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 3:43pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Dumbing it down in L'Stylz Magazine

    Number of comments: 1
    When L'Stylz Magazine publisher Chekata Tinsley and its editor-in-chief, Afrykah WubSauda, approached me about writing a column for their hair magazine, I hesitated. If you haven't noticed, I'm not the most commercial friendly writer in town. Tinsley and WubSauda, however, are anything but shallow merchants. Their partnership at L'Stylz has combined Tinsley's [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 1:35am EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey

  • Does Eight Belles matter more than Kenneth Chandler?

    I'm sorry, I care more about a human than a horse. From MSNBC via WLKY-32: "[Louisville] Metro Police are investigating a fatal accident involving an off-duty officer and a man on a bicycle. The collision happened around 5:15 a.m. Sunday in the 4400 block of Dixie Highway. Police said the 3rd Division officer [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2008, 12:47pm EDT
    by Phillip M. Bailey
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