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Unveiling Black Fridays: A New Friday Feature
Happy Friday, everyone! It seems like everyone has a new and exciting Friday Feature – the granddaddy of the microblogs, Twitter – follow me, validate me! – is doing it on a global scale with more than...
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Black Fridays: Black History Month
Oh, Happy Day! Welcome, children. Welcome to Friday, and by extension, to that weekly phenomenon, Black Fridays – cos the week ain’t Black enough! That tagline is being altered for one week only,...
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Black Fridays: GOBAMA!
It’s Friday! (Try to imagine that in the voice of Noddy Holder, lead singer of Slade, at the beginning of their soon-to-be ubiquitous Christmas classic, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.) Happy...
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Black Fridays: Black Heart On Prime Time
In the end, there was really only one subject today’s Black Friday segment was going to be about. You knew it, I knew it, the interwebz herself knew it. I could talk about how how employers...
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From Naija With Love
I was all done for the year, I swear. Then this fool gets all up in my grill, with his seasonal humdinger of a news story. Dammit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, you just couldn’t be cool! You just had to...
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The 'Special' Relationship
I was home from work yesterday, thanks to the overzealous actions of a dicky tummy. The blanket of snow outside did not exactly inspire a stiff upper lip either, so there I was, hot water bottle...
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Back To Black
I like to keep an eye on the US. Like it or not, a lot of our cultural cues are taken from either its actions, or the consequences of its actions. While we may not like it, exactly, it is what it is....
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The (Imagined?) Politics of The R&B Music Video
Please excuse the incoherence that’s about to unfold. So there I was in the gym yesterday, running 10 kilometres (WOO!) to nowhere, when the new Timberlake and Timbaland video came on. Accordingly, and...
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Identity Politics
This post is coming out on the day we Brits will be going to the polls for the general and local elections. 2010′s election campaign is one that we’ll not soon forget, I think. The live debates, the...
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Our Possible New Chinless Overlords
As of Thursday night, it felt like the bad news wouldn’t stop coming. I tried to distract myself at 10 o’ clock, knowing that the results of the exit polls would not be good. Thankfully, I was...
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Uh Oh
Oh, man. Gordon Brown resigns, Nick Clegg goes with the Conservatives, Britain is momentarily without a Prime Minister. David Cameron is our new Prime Minister, Nick Clegg is Deputy Prime Minister. In...
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Badass Women: Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks
Today, 55 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It was an incident that would spark one of the biggest and most well-known chapters in the Civil Rghts...
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Black Thursdays*: The London riots, me on NPR and ‘whitewashing’ the clean ups
We’ve all been glued to the internet and our TV screens for the last few days, watching as London seemingly imploded. So many voices have piped up with opinions (like areseholes, we’ve all got one) and...
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