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*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never [...]
*Talk show host and activist Tavis Smiley is set to confront the issue of poverty head on Thursday (tonight) as he moderates “Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity.” The C-SPAN live broadcast will air from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Jan. 12 and will feature a panel of experts at George Washington [...]
*The real question is, “why not?” People who are complaining about Michael Eric Dyson’s Georgetown University course (one of the smartest commentators working today, by the way) on Jay-Z by trying to put down the rapper’s lyrics are missing the point. Of course, when stacked up next to Proust, Dickens or Dickinson, quotes like “Many [...]
*Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson insists that his new class that delves deep into the lyrics of rapper Jay-Z confronts topics present in any sociology course: racial and gender identity, sexuality, capitalism and economic inequality. “It just happens to have an interesting object of engagement in Jay-Z — and what better way to meet people [...]
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