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little blue pills, curdled milk, and cottage cheese

Tin-Woodman

His take:

That devil in a blue dress is pissing me off. She’s taking men down the wrong road, down a yellow brick road.

She shows up at the perfect time, during football games, creating her own perfect storm, as a constant reminder we are under pressure to perform.

This “pressure to perform,” even she knows, is far worse in the bedroom than the pressure to perform on any football field.

That devil in a blue dress really pisses me off.

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50 Years Later: Impressions of Selma

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50 years later...the first Black president crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

When President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama stepped down from Air Force One in Selma, Alabama this weekend, it represented a full circle moment.  From the cotton fields to the Oval Office.

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Black History Month Just Got Blacker

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Maybe they should consider bird baths...

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Ohio State’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

 Ohio-States-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Celebration-2015A Special Invitation to Alumni and Friends

Rev. Al Sharpton is the featured speaker of Ohio State’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration to be held on Wednesday, January 14, 2015. 

Rev. Al Sharpton, host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation and founder of the National Action Network, will speak at Ohio State’s 43rd MLK celebration at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14, at the Ohio Union, Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom, located on 1739 N. High Street.

Award-winning writer and author of The Evolution of Al Sharpton: The Provocative Politics of the People’s Preacher (May 2016), Dr. Jamal Watson and Ohio State’s African American Voices gospel choir will also participate.

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George Killerman

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First, it's speeding bullets, then it's flying wine bottles. What's next? Spinning axes?

George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal 2013 shooting of unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was charged with aggravated assault on Saturday after his arrest in connection with some domestic commotion in Florida.

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Jolly, Jolly Jowls

These are the eyes of an angel who has everything.  A thriving business in entertainment.  Two handsome sons.  And a string of wealthy “exes”–some of whom were other women’s “currents.”

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Hmmm, Which Turkey Do We Pardon?

Elizabeth-Lauten-cyber-bullies-presidents-daughtersThe White House turkey was not the only turkey needing pardoning this weekend.  Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, found her neck on the chopping block for cyber bullying President Barack Obama’s daughters after the turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House on November 26, 2014.

The respect Elizabeth Lauten wishes Sasha and Malia, the president’s daughters, had shown for the sanctity of the White House is the same ordinary respect she should have shown for Sasha and Malia and their parents as living, breathing, feeling, ordinary human beings.

Because of racial inequality in this country, Elizabeth Lauten, a communications director (and many others like her who are less than communications directors), take regular, persistent, and unwarranted liberties with every aspect of Black Life.

The overwhelming disrespect President Barack Obama, this president in particular, has suffered is a direct result of this country having little or no respect for Black Life and is evidenced when the Elizabeth Lautens, whether she has three teeth in her head or a full set, open their mouths and show how black and foul their hearts are.

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Bill Cosby Raped Me, Too!

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...because the ladies love Bill Cosby!

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Knickers With Holes in Them

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Perhaps orange is the new black.

Dirty laundry.

Knickers with holes in them.

Uncle Susan in the attic.

Aunt Jimmie (with the mustache) in the basement.

Redbone stepson choking cats out back.

Lost girl sobbing in the back room, no trustworthy shoulder to lean on.

In a so-called politically correct world, knickers with holes in them are not on the cover of magazines because they are fashionable and trendy.

Don’t be…

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The Bluest Eye

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“I permanently changed my eye color with BrightOcular and lovin it,” Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris wrote on Instagram.

It’s official.  Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris, T.I.’s boo, has the bluest eye.  Her eye color, thanks to a surgical procedure by BrightOcular, has gone from drab and brown to a cool ice gray.  To borrow a verse from Drake Drizzy, Oh Lord, BP from a hunderd to two hunderd real quick.

Real quick.

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