Everything tagged with ‘Quickie’

*Quickie Update* 1520 Sedgwick Ave. Saved

Words: Kat Noel • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: SUBSTANCE.

On Thursday, February 28, 2008, the residents of hip-hop’s birthplace finally recieved the results they’ve been fighting months for.

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*Quickie* Fidel Castro Resigns

Words: Marly Pierre-Louis • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: SUBSTANCE.

At about 5 a.m. this morning, after 49 years as leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro officially resigned.

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*Quickie* Bush’s Dynasty Built on Backs of Slaves

Words: Jessica Jones • Feb 18th, 2008 • 5 Comments • Category: SUBSTANCE.

“The Root”, is reporting that the ancestors of President George W. Bush enslaved 30 people 175 years ago.

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*Quickie* Org Hopes to Boost Obama Votes in Cali

Words: Kat Noel • Feb 3rd, 2008 • Category: SUBSTANCE.

Vote Hope, a grassroots California based political network, wants to encourage youth and underrepresented communites to vote for Obama during the February 5 primary.

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*Quickie* Birthplace of Hip-Hop in Danger

Words: Kat Noel • Feb 1st, 2008 • 3 Comments • Category: SUBSTANCE.

1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the building where DJ Kool Herc organized the first hip hop house party, is in danger of being sold.

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*Quickie* Post Reaches Out to Black Readers

Words: Kat Noel • Jan 29th, 2008 • 6 Comments • Category: SUBSTANCE.

Yesterday, the Washington Post launched “The Root” - an online that aims to be a “Slate for black readers,” according to the site’s co-founder and Editor-In-Chief, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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*Quickie* Tax Rebates

Words: Marly Pierre-Louis • Jan 28th, 2008 • 3 Comments • Category: SUBSTANCE.

According to the economic stimulus package proposed by President Bush, come June as many as 116 million American families could be receiving a fat check in the mail. Word.

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*Quickie* Toni Morrison Chooses Obama

Words: Kat Noel • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: SUBSTANCE.

10 years after calling Bill Clinton our “first Black President”, Morrison now endorses Obama

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*QUICKIE* Philadelphia’s New Top Cop

Words: Marly Pierre-Louis • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: SUBSTANCE.

Newly-elected Mayor Michal Nutter has appointed former Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington D.C. as the new police commissioner.

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*QUICKIE* Ouch! Time’s columnist calls out Clinton duo for ganging up on Obama

Words: Jessica Jones • Jan 24th, 2008 • 2 Comments • Category: SUBSTANCE.

New York Time’s columnist Maureen Dowd wrote this editorial, titled Two Against One, about Bill and Hillary Clinton teaming up against Barak Obama in recent months. It was the second most emailed article on the New York Time’s website today.

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