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One who admires and supports Black people and their culture. Born on the Fourth of July ... a.k.a. Juneteenth, C.P.T.
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“afro.com: "If it were not for that I would never entertained the thought to excel the way I have."
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“cnn.com: "He would hold a match in one hand and a hose in the other. He could flip back and forth with effectiveness."
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“nytimes.com/theater: "You must roll your eyes and slide your feet/And say, dis here watermelon bery, bery sweet."
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7 hours ago -
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“baltimoresun.com: "African-Americans have an attitude that says, 'When you respect me, I will respect you.'"
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“blog.cleveland.com/metro: "[A]t 6:12 p.m. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones died."
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(Aché, aché, aché.)”
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“stephanietubbsjones.com: "And if I can keep my name out of the papers [...] then I have done my job."
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(Ave atque vale)”
yesterday at 11:25 am -
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“post-gazette.com: "Never before has this much black history been assembled in one place."
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“guardian.co.uk/commentisfree "I ask whether this is the end of an era in which one is even able to ask such a question"
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yesterday at 8:31 am -
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“suntimes.com: "If you haven't seen a dentist in more than six months, then guess what? You're overdue."
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“knoxnews.com: "It was a logical step for us to be involved in cultural heritage tourism."
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“cnn.com: "If you're one of the individuals that it does work on, yes, it will become a deterrent."
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(And if you're not?)”
yesterday at 1:05 am -
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“ap.org: "African American students are more than twice as likely to be paddled."
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(Just say no to smack.)”
yesterday at 12:44 am -
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“fredericknewspost.com: "The kind of work some of our forefathers did, it is amazing."
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“Retweet @
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) on its special "Black Communities Struggle with Soaring Energy Costs" report
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“chicagotribune.com: "Are they serious, the reader asks, or is this idle conversation?"
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“mije.org (via poynter.org & @
ohmgee
): "It's sad because if you look at the list, it's heavily minority. It looks bad"
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“rrstar.com: Seven-photo slideshow from yesterday's Rockford, Ill. Black Family Reunion
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“ajc.com: "If you’re black and a gay man, you’re not even looked at as a man. If you have HIV, you’re almost not human."
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“allafrica.com: "The Obama sign offers a choric, antiphonal negation of an original negation."
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August 16 at 1:20 am -
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“boston.com: "Hayes can go to his reward assured that his music did just what he described."
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August 15 at 10:28 pm -
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“nytimes.com: "It's hard for him to go onstage, get in front of a microphone and not tell jokes. It's in him."
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August 15 at 9:43 pm -
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“mercurynews.com: "Some called it the beginning of the end of single-race classification. It hasn't happened. [...]"
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August 15 at 9:13 pm -
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“sfgate.com: "San Francisco's black population has dropped faster than that of any other large U.S. city's."
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August 10 at 6:37 pm -
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“sfgate.com: "When you have a healthy middle class, it really does change the dynamic of schools and housing."
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August 15 at 5:04 pm -
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“thenation.com: "We're chasing people through the park. We're going out onto the corner. This is huge. Huge."
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August 15 at 5:03 pm -
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“indy.com: "You didn't even start your television career until you were 40?" "Yeah, O-L-D, baby! That's old for TV!"
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August 15 at 3:40 pm -
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“nytimes.com: "He left his stamp on a lot of great music. He had a commercial ear as well as a critical ear."
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August 15 at 9:36 am -
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“stlamerican.com: "Yes, the Olympic spirit is alive and well in the Austin household."
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August 14 at 1:09 pm -
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“ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com: "The need to be noble, when in fact, you're really just beaten, is heartbreaking."
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August 12 at 5:55 pm -
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“washingtonmonthly.com: "Now, a decade later, it had somehow sprouted in the crime-ridden ghettos of Baltimore."
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August 12 at 2:24 pm -
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“fivethirtyeight.com: "And that, essentially, was how the primary was lost."
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August 12 at 2:17 pm -
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“newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith: "Hayes was the only one who made me wonder if there might be something to it."
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August 11 at 4:39 pm -
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“washingtonpost.com: "I've been told to keep my sense of humor about the film 'Tropic Thunder,' which opens this week."
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August 11 at 4:35 pm -
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“boston.com/ae/tv: "[T]he result is far more interesting than any white teen shows that served as model or inspiration."
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August 11 at 2:32 pm -
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“latimes.com: "Every effort to pay reparations has failed because slaves and slave-owners are dead."
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(Mastery! Obvious!)”
August 11 at 2:28 pm -
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“latimes.com: "These people love you, man. They'll follow you anywhere. . . . You're like Moses. Black Moses!"
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August 11 at 2:27 am -
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“npr.org: "Among them is Justin Jordan, a junior at Texas Southern University who says he is unimpressed by Obama."
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August 10 at 8:48 pm -
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“hosted.ap.org: "[C]hances are good your life is connected to these children. One of them is Saliou Diallo."
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August 10 at 6:31 pm -
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“professorkim.blogspot.com "By that time, the story had been re-tweeted several times, with and without links."
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August 10 at 2:37 pm -
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“nytimes.com/aponline/us: "The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence."
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August 10 at 2:37 pm -
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“guardian.co.uk: "'There is a sense that this might be the potential downside of the triumph of tokenism.'"
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August 9 at 8:16 pm -
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“nytimes.com/opinion: "[...] 5 percent confessed that they would not. That’s not so bad, right? But wait."
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August 9 at 7:56 pm -
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“latimes.com: "I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn't a lot of things to laugh about."
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August 9 at 7:36 pm -
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“voanews.com: "Dorothy West was the last living member of the Harlem Renaissance. She died in August, (1998)."
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August 9 at 4:59 pm -
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“chicagotribune.com: "The question was, if it can happen in Springfield, maybe it can happen anywhere."
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August 9 at 4:56 pm -
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“swamppolitics.com: "Maybe those voting for Obama in part because of his race will offset those who vote against him."
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August 8 at 11:57 pm -
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“rhrealitycheck.org: "[I]t is the voices that I'm not hearing that I should be paying the most attention to."
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August 8 at 12:44 pm -
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“blogs.usatoday.com/gameon: "Is the USA men's basketball team carrying the flag for all African Americans?"
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