If you’re not into updating your Entourage or throwing vampires, the only real thing to do on Facebook is to check out your friend’s profiles. You know… read their updates, comment on their photos, peruse their walls.
So about a year ago, I was scanning a family member’s MySpace page and came across [...]
“Die, N-word, we don’t want to see you ‘round here no more.”
It was just last summer that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick made this statement during an NAACP sponsored “funeral” for the ‘N’ word.
But during his state-of-the-city speech Tuesday night, Kilpatrick brought the word back to life.
“In the past 30 days, I’ve been called a [...]
How do they teach fifth graders in Tennessee about the history of race relations in the south? They begin with a vocabulary lesson…?
According to AP it goes something like this:
A crossword puzzle assigned as a homework lesson for fifth-graders studying a book about the 19th-century South asked them to use a racial slur the N-word [...]
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