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Kanye West renounces celebrity status at New York City concert
Someone alert the paparazzi: Kanye West is not a celebrity, and you guys can pack up and go home. Nothing to see here. That was the intended takeaway, at least, from another classic-Kanye monologue during West's set Thursday night at the Roseland...Tags: MTV (tv network), Music, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Adult Swim (tv network), New York City
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'Family' connections: How Phylicia Rashad found Stovall and his play set in Hyde Park
When Phylicia Rashad was cast as a replacement Violet Weston in Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Broadway gossip boards were abuzz with the notion of casting an African-American actress, best known for...
Tags: Cynda Williams, Entertainment Events, Sweden, John Cameron Mitchell, Barack Obama
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PepsiCo-Lil Wayne split marks shaky alliance of rappers, business
Corporations are quick to recruit rappers to sell their soft drinks, shoes and smartphones — but the moment there's a whiff of controversy, they are just as quick to cut them loose. The latest example is PepsiCo and Lil Wayne. Last week, the...Tags: Food Industry, Twitter, Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Politics, Adidas AG
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Cool Classics! hits close to home with schoolchildren
Mara Tapp was driving through the North Kenwood neighborhood on Jan. 29 when she saw a swarm of police cars. She knew something was wrong but continued to the after-school class she teaches at nearby Reavis Elementary. She would later learn that the...
Tags: University of Chicago, Teaching and Learning, Murder, Jonylah Watkins, Shootings
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Trice: Obama-inspired quilt exhibit had troubled past
![When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67241505-08190944-187105.jpg "When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44,\" in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.")
When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Museums, Barack Obama, Chicago Public Schools, Politics
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Lil Wayne apologizes to Emmett Till family
Months after Lil Wayne created a firestorm for lyrics that name-dropped slain civil rights figure Emmett Till along with a vulgar sexual reference, the rapper has formally apologized to Till’s family. In a letter sent to the Till family, which...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Music, Reebok Ltd., Poetry, Karate
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Orlando marketer works to bring recognition to slain civil-rights icon Medgar Evers
"Man has not until this day, done what God would have us do. That is, love our neighbor as ourselves, especially if one neighbor happens to be black, and the other neighbor white." — Medgar Evers 1963 was an eventful year in America — one...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Entertainment Events, Robert DeLaughter, Religion and Belief, John F. Kennedy
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Lil Wayne, PepsiCo's Mountain Dew part ways after controversy
In a week that has already seen PepsiCo pull an ad developed by Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator, the beverage giant is severing ties with another rapper, Lil Wayne. PepsiCo announced it has ended its partnership with the rapper over a vulgar...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Reebok Ltd., Poetry, PepsiCo Inc., OFWGKTA (music group)
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Lil Wayne Dropped by Mountain Dew Over Emmett Till Lyric
ReutersMay 04 (TheWrap.com) - Apparently, Mountain Dew's thoughts about physical abuse have changed over the course of the week. Mountain Dew has dropped rapper Lil Wayne as a spokesman, due to lyrics in which he compared the beating and death of Emmett Till to...Tags: Online Advertising, Abusive Behavior
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Kanye West reveals June 18 as ... something
Kanye West took to Twitter on Thursday morning for a major announcement: "June Eighteen." And that's it -- no context, no explanation, no additional clues as to what that date might bring. Is it the release date for his new album, which Pop & Hiss...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Twitter, Inc., Kim Kardashian, Kanye West
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Forgetting Black History
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelWith Black History Month moving into full swing, photos of the same five black activists are plastered on the news, posters and flyers. The same line from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream speech” is repeated over and over... -
Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in AAPACT play
Staff WriterShe was not thinking of writing a play about Anne Frank and Emmett Till. Janet Langhart Cohen was just enjoying her life in Washington D.C.’s social whirl as the wife of former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William S. Cohen. But she did,...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Religion and Belief, Ku Klux Klan, Booker T. Washington, Kensington
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