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Black People Learn How to Buy Silver & Gold
AS FINANCIAL CRISIS GETS WORSE, BLACK PEOPLE LEARN HOW TO BUY SILVER & GOLD
Dozens Gather For Tele-Training To Preserve Their Wealth and Savings
Bro. Bedford
Detroit, MI (BlackNews.com) - Oil prices are at record highs. Gas prices are at record highs. Food prices are rising to record highs. Property values are falling through the floor and there is not a shortage of warnings coming from the Government and Financial wizards stating that the United States economy is facing a MAJOR CRISIS.
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Race and Election Coverage 2008
Race and Election Coverage 2008
May 16, 2008
Minnesota, Part 2
In Minnesota, several controversial bills left over from the 2007 session have big implications for communities of color. Jermaine Toney, a researcher at the Organizing Apprenticeship Program, commonly known as OAP, has been keeping tabs on the developments of several pieces of legislation that were tabled in the 2007 session. One is the Reclaiming Our Children From Detention Act, which, according to Toney, would jumpstart a 12-month pilot project to look at young people of color’s unequal contact with police. “Racial profiling is a problem people in Minnesota have long been aware of, and people are finally trying to move on this,” Toney said. He admits that since its introduction the bill has been watered down significantly.
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My High School Sex Life
My High School Sex Life
I’M JACQUELINE WASHINGTON, and I’m 18 now—late 18. I was born and raised in east Oakland, and I’m about to graduate from high school. My school’s really large, and I don’t like it; I’m a small-school person. I would say it’s about 1,500 kids. The last school I was at had at the most 230.
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The Rise of Street Literature
The Rise of Street Literature
IN PERCIVAL EVERETT’S NOVEL Erasure, Thelonious Ellison is a college professor who writes novels that are more praised than read. His work’s engagement with French post-structuralists and ancient Greek literature impresses and baffles reviewers, who wonder what those subjects have to do with the African-American experience. Frustrated by his latest novel’s seventh rejection and angered by the success of the street-lit hit We’s Lives in Da Ghetto, Ellison dashes off a novella parodying the “true, gritty real stories of [B]lack life” that he has been advised to write. This satiric tale, which is included in Erasure in its entirety, is peopled with stock characters like the perennially scowling thug and the vapid baby mama. It is sent to Random House as a protest, but to Ellison’s amazement and chagrin he is offered a $600,000 advance for his “magnificently raw and honest” account. Compromised, disgusted and rich, Ellison creates a reclusive, ex-con writer persona that the literary world celebrates as a “real! live! scary! Black male!” writer in their midst.
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Risking it All to Find Safety
Risking it All to Find Safety
By Kai Wright
Reprinted from Drifting Toward Love, by permission of Beacon Press.
JULIUS’S SHEER POWER is just unsettling. It starts with the 22-year-old’s evident beauty—the bright smile, the cherub-like innocence of his round face, his smooth, dark skin and baby dreads—all of which work alongside a sharp, speedy mind and a disarming charm to concoct a potent, volatile brew. His physicality is unquestionably male—he’s nearly six feet tall, with square shoulders and rounded if unsculpted musculature that he shows off in tight shirts and tank tops. But he wields his manhood in an overtly feminine way; where other guys strut, Julius swishes. And this recasting of male form in female style creates a gender play that’s more take-no-shit diva than nelly boy. Julius is cut out for big things and knows as much. But there’s no telling exactly what the nature of his large-scale acts will be on any given day—he’s equally capable of stunning achievement and devastating self-destruction.
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