NEW YORK--Writer and director Michael Holman, 55, arrived in New York City in the late '70s and immersed himself in the early years of rap music, documenting hip-hop parties with a Super-8 camera.
"I was in the game in 1979, and I would go uptown ...
Posted Sunday, November 7th 2010 at 3:39PM
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By Joel S. Hirschhorn
November 6, 2010
It is now inconceivable that our world could function without the 5 billion cell phones used globally. The new book by Devra Davis “Disconnect” deserves your attention. Indeed, if you use a cell phone a lo ...
Posted Sunday, November 7th 2010 at 3:30PM
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Racial profiling and why you should read Charles Ogletree's "the Presumption of Guilt"
by Bill Fletcher Jr.
November 04, 2010
In 1981 a good friend of mine and I drove from Boston to Detroit for a labor conference. At the tail end of the con ...
Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 12:48PM
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WASHINGTON--White House chief of Staff Andrew Card famously said - in explaining why the Bush administration waited until September to make its case for war in Iraq:
From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.
Ev ...
Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 12:37PM
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Music World/Columbia Records have announced the upcoming release of Beyonce‘s I Am…World Tour, a full-length concert film DVD covering the R&B superstar’s most recent international tour.
In support of Beyonce’s multi-platinum, Grammy Award winnin ...
Posted Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 at 4:22PM
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