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August 22, 2001
Beef-a-Real
Ed Bradley, Bryant Gumbel Challenged on 'Buckwheat' 
"When Imus questioned Mr. Rather about CBS's late coverage of Chandra Levy's disappearance, he blamed his bosses, saying, 'They got the willies, they got the Buckwheats!'" More and more. Newsmax
Beef-a-Real
Jackson Mistress Explodes Over 'Political Stalker' Charge "'I'm not a political stalker. I feel like I have every right, and actually an obligation, to talk about what has happened to me and my daughter since our - my personal relationship with Reverend Jesse Jackson became public.'" Well, honey, we prefer to get your business from the hairdresser rather than 20/20. Newsmax
August 19, 2001
Music
'Soul Train' Creator Accuses MTV of Unfair Booking Rules "Cornelius, who launched 'Soul Train' as a weekly series featuring black performers in 1970, said dissuading acts from performing on competing programs is 'a misuse of power.' 'It's anti-competitive behavior that needs to be addressed at the Federal Trade Commission level. Let me make myself perfectly clear. I'm not begging for a favor here,' Cornelius said. 'This is a warning. If this particular media organization doesn't stop pushing its weight around like this, I am going to file a complaint with the federal authorities against them.'" L.A. Times
August 18, 2001
Political Animal
The Other Side of Paradise "Although everyone agrees that 'aloha spirit' is real, there is sharp disagreement about what it means. For the travel industry it is primarily a marketing strategy, with many hotels writing into workers' terms of employment the requirement to greet guests with a smiling 'aloha.' For local residents, however, the idea of 'aloha spirit' carries a radical edge to it, focused ultimately on notions of fairness, sharing, and mutual respect. In 2000-2001, workers' and managements' ideas of aloha clashed dramatically in a series of battles over labor contracts for hotel employees. Leonard Nakoa, a golf course groundskeeper and union activist whose family has been on Maui for more than a thousand years, explains that 'we show the guests aloha by opening our homes and our homeland for them. We don't do this because the hotels tell us to -- we do it because this is the Hawai'ian way. But when hotels exploit our land and our families for their own profits -- when they are getting rich off our hospitality while refusing to pay us a living wage -- that is an abuse of the aloha spirit.'" Dissent
August 17, 2001
Political Animal
Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee "This site covers the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from its birth in 1960 to 1966, when John Lewis was replaced by Stokely Carmichael as chairman. This event marks a decided change in philosophy for SNCC, and one that warrants an equal amount of attention. However, we have focused on the first six years of the movement, in order to adequately explore such events as sit-ins, the Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer." SNCC Project Group
August 16, 2001
Political Animal
Slave Traders in Yale's Past Fuel Debate on Restitution Many Americans assume slavery was purely a Southern phenomenon, but some Northerners profited from the slave trade. Universities reaped the benefits: Nicholas and John Brown, two of the founders of what became Brown University, were slave traders; Harvard Law School was endowed by money its founder earned selling slaves in Antigua's cane fields. New York Times
August 15, 2001
Review
Review: Dark Matter Rather than Kabuki-style costumes and Dune-like vistas repeated ad nauseum, I encountered a world of dark matter hitherto unexplored. These are the premises argued around many a kitchen table. Could UFO's explain the scientific advancement of the Egyptians? Were ancient African civilizations able to directly communicate with the spirit-world through an interdimensional door now closed? Drylongso.com
August 9, 2001
Beef-a-Real
Hotel Worker Spits in Baptists' Convention Punch "More than 1,000 people attending an annual meeting of the Progressive National Baptist Convention left the downtown Marriott Waterside hotel Wednesday night after a member said he saw a white hotel worker spit into a punch bowl." St. Petersburg Times