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Thoughts on the Crips' founder, executed December 13, 2005.
Sometimes you have to go back to universal truths. The sky is blue. Ice cream is tasty. This is a brilliant album.
If rappers want to spew violent lyrics, that's fine. Just dont expect every black person to like it.
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CD Review: Midnight Love & the Sexual Healing Sessions - Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye's flawed yet brilliant final album.
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Book Review: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway's first novel. Flawed but indispensable. And this just in: Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence are still dead.
One of the most epic failures in the history of African American literature.
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Book Review: Washington Square, by Henry James
Washington Square is a great introduction to Henry James, showing the full range of his creative powers.
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Book Review: Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike
Rabbit at Rest is John Updike's masterpiece, a Greek tragedy articulated through the downfall of a flawed nuclear family.
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CD Review: I Can't Stop - Al Green
I Cant Stop is a portrait of a great artist in nearly full command of his faculties, with the guts to use all of them.
Young black men need to deal in a metaphysical philosophy of love, empathy and respect for humanity.
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